With the tri training group we've got going this summer, I'm learning and relearning basics. The most basic of all is so simple it's often overlooked.
What's not fun, won't be done.
As much as you can focus on improvements with drills and skills, with running for instance: bounding drills, heel-to-butt kicks, straight leg running, accelerations, arm technique cheek to cheek and proper strike and foot roll....
Ultimately when you actually go out and run you will do it more often and get better because of it when you can focus on the gratitude for being able to do it, the beauty of the surroundings, the sound of the birds, the quiet of a country road, or even the sound of Bob, Billy, Bruce and whoever lives inside your ipod if you must.
The more constipated you get about improving your form or focus on your breathing, the harder your experience becomes and the more that you will come to dread it. Don't make it work.
In fact, if you've started using time, pace and heart rate as indicators of success so much that you forgot why you run in the first place, try leaving it all behind next time.
Just run. For the Joy of it. Run like a child. Light post to light post, over and back of the lines on the side walk, backwards when you feel like it... there are no rules. Get back to making it play. Unless your sport pays the bills for you, take having fun while you're doing it, seriously.
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