Ethan Cannon

6:41 pace, east river road. 

Rainy run as it got dark in Schenley park and Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh.

Schenley park to Frick park, in the rain. 

Didn't start raining until the second half of my run to Highland park.

Got to bed at 1 am last night (2 am eastern). I slept in until 8 but felt pretty darn wasted today on my Como classic run. It was very foggy. I haven't seen the sun in several days. I tried to take the soft surface trail, but the ice is still hanging on. 

I did a route I am surprised I have not done before. I ran the Boom island course, then continued north and crossed the river where I would to get to Victory drive. If I did it again (and went longer), I would have crossed under the bridge and followed the Shingle Creek trail. Last night it was warm and rainy but this morning there was sleet on the ground and wind, so I ran slow (6:25 pace). I was also tired. These shoes really are great and making blisters. Also- one more complaint: MapMyRun has not been well taken care of since Outside took it over.  

7:14 pace, east river road. Yesterday I either stubbed or broke my toe. I was just grateful to have been able to run at all; I wasn't sure I would be able to. With running slow, it didn't feel all that bad, and my biggest concern is not the toe but somewhere else in case compensating leads to overuse. 

East river flats. Went a little faster today, especially at the beginning. I turned around at the top of the last hill before the end of the route. 

7:15 pace, east on Como. I have gone to great lengths to run in the morning this winter. Today I left for my run at 6 am, meaning that I returned 20 minutes before sunrise, through a thin layer of snow that may have melted by the afternoon. 

6:51 pace, west river road north via Stone Arch. This is the first day since my foot injury that I have run full mileage and normal pace. 

I've run inside before due to snow, cold, and smoke. Today I ran indoors because of wind. It was like 23 or 24 mph with gusts in the 40s (although the latter metric always makes things seem worse than they are). I may have been fine outside but decided to not. 

About 6 flat pace, but honestly I'm not really sure. I feel like MapMyRun is getting low traffic and Outside has totally left it to die; it is working terribly right now. West river road, did all of my normal Winchell trail side routes, which were surprisingly totally snow-free. Not for long!

Treadmill run. 

Treadmill run. 

It seems hard to believe I ran as fast and far as I did, but oh well. Emerald necklace. Not as fun in March as in June. I saw someone running with spikes/flats which inspired me to do 4x3 min on, 1 minute off. I was able to do most of it without stopping for lights. 

Ran along the river, as well as the Boston garden and commons. Not sure how far I went. 

Emerald necklace. 

Apparently I ran 6:01 pace to lake Johanna. That seems hard to believe on a course like that but oh well.

6:43 pace, east river road. 

6:49 pace, east river flats. Felt some achilles tightness, which surprised me since I thought I had gotten over the worst of the impact from my toe issue. 

6:43 pace, Como classic. At long last, I was finally able to run all the way up the soft surface trail again. It was a tiny bit squishy in a few places but other than that was fine. 

I didn't work out yesterday because my foot hurt on Monday, but I did work out today because my foot didn't hurt yesterday (it also felt fine today). Windy, rainy only at the beginning and 5 x 3 minutes on, 1 minute off. Only for the first rep do I have any idea of the distance I ran, and for being into the wind, it was better than it could have been given the amount of training I've done this year. 

6:44 pace, St A parkway.

Just under 6 flat pace, Resevoir Woods. This felt like a harder than average long run, and I did run faster than normal on that route if not mistaken- I turned around at 49:40 after completing the whole McCarron's lake loop. I ran hard on all of Roselawn on the way back. Doing more of a "tempo" effort like that on a LR is hard because it's easy to let it just become the long run slog. 

6:45 pace, Como classic. Don't love these shoes. 

6:40 pace, west river north.