Almost didn't run tonight. The sinus symptoms that started earlier this week turned into more general head cold type symptoms overnight.
Decided to go for a 100% aerobic run and to try and have better form. This is always hard for me to change since it seems to affect the balance of all your body parts at once. Tonight I just ran sort of slow, worked on gently hopping from one eggshell to another and kept an eye on my heartrate. Other than that I just tried to move forward as fast as those constraints allowed. At first I couldn't even coordinate well enough to push hard enough to get my HR up to the max I would allow.
The course is an out and back. Mostly downhill out, and uphill back. The hills are steep enough that if I run this loop for best time I'll average 170bpm and be over 180 on the steep parts, and the back will be a minute slower than the out.
Tonight out was two minutes slower than back, which itself was pretty respectable for considering how light the effort was. Nowhere near PR, but the adjustment to the stride was starting to feel automatic.
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