PIKA!!!! How are you?!

Thanks for your note.

Today I ran another 4 miles. My lower legs were very sore but my hips/quads and hammies where happy. That's from changing my running form to more of a mid to forefoot strike. It's taking some time for my lower leg muscles to catch up. But I was sore enough today that Coach S said to do yoga tomorrow. Then I'm supposed to do a 10 km road race on Saturday. He wants me to run so hard that I can't finish. He said the best result for me would be to have my best ever 5 km split and to blow up on the next 5 km. This is all about the mental barriers. He wants me to learn how to not hold back, to go really hard when I go hard. This is going to be very interesting.

Don't worry, other than my 10 km all my training is about 18 to 20 BPM below my anaerobic threshold which I'm pretty sure is less than LBP - please correct me if I'm wrong. Maybe I'll go google it.