I would have done a longer run today, or a bike session, but I'm still feeling under the weather, so I just limited myself to my runstreak form-centric run.
Today's focus was primarily on the appropriate amount of lean for the pace (which turned out to be about 8:13). During this run, I think I maybe discovered that the correlation between my IT band flaring up soon after races is because I put more effort into running during races, but I don't adjust the amount of lean accordingly to maintain good form. In ChiRunning terms, I use gear 2 lean for gear 3 speed. It occurred to me today that in the past, when I've wanted to increase speed, I put more effort into muscle activation to do so, with little regard for how the running form should be altered to accommodate. One of the concepts in ChiRunning is to increase the amount of body lean in order to increase speed - because that body lean is what ends up lengthening the stride. So when I want to train for faster speed, I need to train for the appropriate form and let speed just happen, as opposed to the other way around.
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