Ethan Cannon

Wow, I blitzed my fastest ever split (I believe) on east river flats- 62:30 for 6:40 pace, including just two strides on the way back, on a warm, windy morning. Not sure why my pace is so fast recently but I'm not complaining. Now, I definitely felt fatigued. I probably feel about as tired as I ever have, but recently the same effort gets me a faster pace. 

5:57 pace on a nice warm morning on east river road. 6:09 pace on the way out. For 4.19 miles coming back, I ran 5:33 pace as a workout- 2 minutes on, 2 minutes somewhere between "easy" and "float". That's a pretty easy workout so honestly that was pretty good- probably 5 minute pace at least on the hard stuff since I was for sure slower than 6 minute pace on the easy. At times I felt really fast and good. I really am becoming a fan of doing long run workouts. It allowed me to really chill on the way out. Then you become kind of focused on the workout during it, and by the time thats done, its cool down time. And its probably better for my fitness. Work smarter not harder. 

6:52 pace, como classic. Felt tired today. 

6:42 pace, boom island

By the time I got home the wind was apparently 10 mph, but I have to say, I thought to myself during the workout that it was relatively calm for being March! I did 2x(1600, 800, 800) with 2 min between reps and 3 min between sets. Turned out to be 3 min after one rep b/c I saw my old coach and 3:30 between sets as I took my tights off. It's really interesting how doing something like that will actually make your next rep, or at least the start of it, slower. I wonder if my body kind of just forgets it is a workout and loses some of its sharpness. Goal pace was 5:00 and 2:25. I ran 4:57, 2:24, 2:23, 4:54, 2:25, 2:18. The last one I did normal first lap then 66 for the second lap. So yes I have a long way to go but I feel like I'm making progress. 

Weird. Felt pretty darn tired today, but I still ran 6:39 pace on east river road, which I don't think is a record but is getting close to it. Recently my body seems to have forgotten how to chill. 

6:44 pace, east river flats. Wind made it cold on the way back. 

6:13 pace on the way out, but I did almost all of the detours. On the way back I did 6x2 minute on, 1 minute off again. It was either 5:39 pace or 5:20 pace overall. Honestly, with a cold headwind going that direction, it was a good way to pass the time. 6:04 pace overall on the way back. Felt slow as a sloth after the workout but I think at some parts I was going a decent pace. West river road to lake Hiawatha. 

First day with the new shoes. They were certainly underwhelming from the expectation I had that they would be soft like Hokas Clifton 7s. Hopefully they will end up being worth the $80 each. On the bright side, I ran 6:40 pace for Como classic so while I'm not sure I would use them on workouts, it's clearly not like I'm tying bricks to my feet as some seemed to suggest online.  

6:47 pace coming back from east river road to rec center. 3 strides. Didn't count pace going out because I tried to run on the path that goes down from St Thomas jut. It's not the best. 

4x1600 at the track. Not as windy as last week. Here are my splits, not because I am proud of the splits, but because I am proud that for some reason I can remember them a few hours later without looking at my watch (I only recorded splits at the end of each mile anyway):

 4:57 (74, 2:28, 3:42); 4:55 (72, 2:25, 3:40); 4:51 (71, 2:23, 3:37); 4:49 (72, 2:25, 3:38).

About 3 minutes of rest for each. Even though it wasn't great, it feels good to do something hard. 

7:02 pace but I took every longcut on rec center to west river. Felt tired though. 

Tied record of 6:40 pace on east river flats, while wearing my Nimbus'. Not bad for a pair of clunkers!

5:54 pace on the gateway trail. 

Splits: 6:18, 6:05, 5:53, 5:59, 6:03, 5:57, 6:02, 6:06, 5:53, 6:07, 6:17, 6:02, 6:17, 5:25, 5:20, 5:17. 4:06 and 4:03 for the first and last chunk, 2:43 and 2:51 in the middle. The goal was to keep it nice and easy during the body of the run to conserve energy for a 3 mile tempo at the end. I was feeling kind of fatigued and it ended up being a battle. On the one hand, the last three measured miles are downhill (50 feet but you feel it), but it was also allegedly 17 mph winds going southeast and of course at that speed my shoes did end up feeling pretty slow. Not great still but I wanted to get in a workout since I won't next Wednesday in Chicago. Nice, quiet day on the trail.

6:47 pace, Como classic. For being 20 degrees out it didn't feel that cold.

First run in Chicago. On the bright side, running here doesn't have the issues of it being literally impossible because your house is on a mountain (Tennessee) or having to wear a bear bell so you don't get eaten (Montana), but it is also very windy with only one running option where I am, which is by the lake, but also next to a highway for part of it. I think I might get more tired of the wind than the cold.  

Chicago

Chicago

Surprisingly, it is cold here and snowed last night. Honestly it's been so sunny that any kind of precipitation is probably good. But it did mean I ran inside. 

After running a lot in the Nimbus', it felt good to throw on the light Triumphs again. It was like 17 degrees when I started out on east river road but sunny, not very windy, and I was going fast so I never felt cold. 6:11 pace on the way out. 5:57 pace on the way back, including 2.5 miles at 5:09 pace from the distal side of St Thomas jut to Franklin ave bridge. 

Treadmill. Slushy morning today.

I thought the rec center treadmills were super high tec but the one I was on today really seemed off. It felt slow and uphill. So the 9 miles is just an estimate, I ran for 63 minutes. 

Another treadmill run, hopefully my last of the year due to winter weather. We've had 15 inches of snow the past few days so it's not like I'm being too much of a wimp. I wasn't planning on working out but decided to. 15 minutes at 5 minute pace. Something just seems wrong about the way I felt after that. I don't feel like I should feel after running that pace. After yesterday too, I just have really low trust in the accuracy of treadmills. At least I can say there's nothing I could do about it- I was maxing out the treadmill's speed. 

6:52 pace, rec center to east river road. Felt good to be back outside.

I ran into a teammate I hadn't seen in about two years while doing west river north, so I don't care to estimate exactly how far I ran in the 64.3 minutes. 

5:58 pace on west river road. I felt pretty compfortable the whole way, including 6:03 pace on the way out, as well as the last couple miles after the workout. On the way back I did 5-4-3-2-1 into the wind with 4-3-2-1 rest. I later mapped the 5 minute part as being 5:12 pace. That's ok- I felt extra slow on that one as I was also getting warmed up at the time. The workout generally went by quick.