Ethan Cannon

6:53 pace, east river flats. 

6:43 pace, rec center to east river road with a few short strides at the end. A pleasant run where wet snow turned to rain and then stopped. First non treadmill day back under 160 lbs (159.0). Trying not to focus too much on that but I have been focusing on eating only when hungry. 

6:50 pace. Felt tired again. I was supposed to work out today but I decided not to. Wind was 17 mph and I was sick. Of course my throat didn't bother me during the run, but I think the general fatigue did. Hopefully I'll feel better by Friday. Race is coming up. 

Just over 7 minute pace. I took most of the off-routes. Felt tired. Still windy out, so glad again that I didn't workout. Hopefully things will be better tomorrow. Yesterday was an extremely odd day, I just wasn't hungry so I didn't eat from like 10 to 5 and I also never had dinner. Sickness? Still, its a little weird. Today I weighed 156.8. 

All week I've been kind of dreading this workout as it has continued to be postponed. I try to believe that a slow workout is better than none at all, but I felt that to do the Michigan justice, I couldn't aim for less than a 4:45 opening mile, which intimidated me based on my work this year. Even as I warmed up, I felt tired once again and didn't have any idea how it would go. In my experience, the first lap can tell you a lot about how your workout will go. My first lap was 67, which was a very, very good sign. 4:38 for the opening 1600. Then 3:32 and 2:17 for the 1200 and 800. The "mile" reps were around the athletic complex in 5:18, 5:07, and 5:12, and were about 4 seconds too far. They felt very easy. Amazingly, my legs felt great during that- the biggest issue was that I scorched my lungs on the first rep, which is to be expected when you do faster track work than you have in a while. It was in the low 30s when I ran and hardly windy (a huge upgrade from prior workouts and even previous days this week), but I really think I see an obvious difference maker, in that I'm a little lighter than before. I may still have a couple more pounds to go, too. Rest ended up being ~1:45. This workout is similar to the Ethan classic that I like in that both workouts require you to "recover" while still running relatively fast. 

6:18 pace. The goal was to keep it slow with having worked out yesterday. TBH this still felt hard, just fatigued I guess. By extending the route in some reasonable ways, I was able to get in all this mileage before reaching the normal turnaround point of my reservoir woods loop. The normal loop and even more so the extension are not suited for a fast LR, but it's good when pace isn't a concern. Happy conference! 6 months ago I was running a marathon and a year ago I had to do my conference LR on the treadmill due to snow. 

6:47 pace, east river flats on a warm, damp morning. Kind of tired.

6:36 pace, rec center to east river road. Nice weather. Small strides at end. 156.6.

6:49 pace, boom island. 

4 mile tempo on west river road, starting at rec center. I am a little dissapointed with 5:07 pace as there wasn't really any good reason why I couldn't have gone faster. 155.

6:45 pace, Como classic. Felt tired. 

Probably should call it quits on these shoes but they keep doing fine. Was in the 50s and 60s when I ran today which made me sweat a lot. Looks like 5:57 pace overall. Splits of complete miles were: 6:21, 6:08, 5:51, 5:54, 6:33, 5:54, 5:52, 5:52, 5:57, 6:10, 4:55, 6:39, 5:15, 6:26, 6:06, 5:58. The two slowest splits were when I transitioned to Browns Creek trail, so probably just over a mile. As you can see, I threw in two hard miles. The first was uphill but with wind at my back. The second was overall probably flat but wind at my face, which is surprising since I hadn't changed directions or anything. I think especially for the first one the gel I took helped. 

6:36 pace (fast!) farmers fields. I haven't done that route in quite some time. It's a nice spring route, as it is something you really can't do during the winter. 

Light rain turned into a deluge on east river road from rec center. The workout came with a free shower! Other people don't seem to love this weather as much as me. 6:40 pace. 

6xK w/ 1 minute rest at the track, my last significant workout before my race. 3:04, 3:04, 3:04, 3:04, 3:06, 3:01. I noticed right away that the pace I started out at felt harder than it did about a year ago when I did 10 reps. In fairness, the track was more slippery than I ever remember it and there was a nasty wind on the backstretch. 

7 minute pace, including some side trails on west river road. 

6:40 pace on east river flats despite some wind (62:30), I believe that again ties my record. Not that I'm trying for that!

I hit 1000 miles in 2024 today!

Woke up to a dusting of snow this morning. Yikes. My tolerance for cold wanes in the spring so I decided to delay my MLR (race next week) until around noon. 6:07 pace was surprisingly fast, especially for Resevoir woods. I wasn't trying that hard, especially on the way out. Coming back I had the wind against me so that was a little more difficult. 

Started with family (first time this year!) then ran boom island. 6:40 pace for the parts I ran alone.

6:46 pace, east river road from rec center. I tried running on the ERR equivalent of Winchell trail on the way back for a bit, but it wasn't great for running. Couple strides. A little leg pain. 155.2

I felt tired today. Stopped by the track on the way home from west river road north to do a little something that would get my legs moving more than strides, but wouldn't tire me out like a workout. 3x400 in 75, 72, 67. You expect the 75 to feel like a jog which it doesn't haha. Hopefully I will be ready to go saturday. 

Last run from the rec center. Also last run I plan to do in Peg 39s. I've very much enjoyed doing my Tuesday/Thursday runs this semester. 2 strides at the end. I wanted to go slow and was able to keep myself in check long enough that it stuck. Probably 7:10-20 pace. Really nice day outside. I stopped and smelled the flowers. 

Started with family, then finished my pre-race. Started raining at the end. Strides.

The pros:
-It was amazing weather. Warm, muggy, overcast- my favorite.
-I got to warm up and run most of the race with an old teammate from UMN
-I got to enjoy running down to the lowlands by fort snelling for my long cooldown. The trees are blooming early this year so it was lots of fun.

The cons:
-the race itself. I still finished 2nd like last year so that’s ok I guess but my time was awful, 45 seconds slower than last year. There are pretty much no excuses. The wind wasn’t as bad as it was supposed to be, I had new shoes (which didn’t seem as springy as I hoped even early), and there have been no other issues to write about. So I hope it’s just a bad day or some residual extra weight I need to shed. My workouts will need to start coming along a lot or hopefully I run much better in Duluth (at least sub 67) so I can still plan on my marathon this fall.

Not very excited to share splits. I could tell I was going a smart pace at the first mile, so I knew it was going to be a bad day time-wise when I saw the time. 4:59. 5:01, 10:07, 5:03, 6:00 (last 1.2). Its a good thing there are more important things in my life than running because today was not a good one in that department. Still, it's a tough pill to swallow. 

Surprisingly quick 6:48 pace on east river flats on a soggy, drizzly day. With all the rain yesterday, this route is still about 2 feet above water level at its closest point. Thus, the past year it has been far more accessible than previous years, with very little snow/ice days preventing it from being run in the winter, and no flooding issues in the spring. I felt surprisingly well recovered, with little residual fatigue or pains. 

6:37 pace on the way back from east river road. Sad to not be doing my old route, but nice to run with the family. New shoes.