Ethan Cannon

6:36 pace, east river road. 

5:55 pace, Lake Johanna route. The past few weeks have been characterized by runs that felt tiring but were surprisingly quick. A few notes: 1) I didn't get out until 9:00, which resulted in there being more traffic in Roseville. I am definitely a fan of the 6:30-8:30 window for running. 2) My knee hurt a bit. That's a bummer. I decided to just do 3 wimpy strides on Como avenue at the end, rather than any sort of workout. 3) I forgot 2 things on my run. First, I stopped for a second, thinking I had taken a wrong turn (I hadn't). Second, for what I believe was the first time, I forgot to pick up a clothing item (gloves) that I had left behind early on. 

6:44 pace, Boom Island. That is actually faster than expected given the circumstances. 

6:25 pace, Como classic. On the way back, I decided to do a mini-workout, ultimately doing 3 min on, 1 off, 3 on, 1 off, 1 on. The reason for this was that I noticed I was already running quite fast anyway. Ultimately this may have been my fastest Como classic ever (<1 hour), and is at least in the top 3. 

6:36 pace, Farmer's fields. 

6:48 pace, west river road. 

St Anthony parkway. Forgot to get record this. 

5:57 pace, Gateway trail in Oakdale to home in the early afternoon. It was one of those Spring days here where it's hard to find anything to complain about being outside. Well, maybe a headwind on my point to point. But for example I don't think you could say you've seen the color blue until you passed Como lake today. Actually, at Como lake I saw I hadn't been running for very long, so I decided to go around the lake and take Como classic home, instead of straight down Como. 

6:40 pace, east river road. Awesome day to be outside. 

6:46 pace. Had the idea to run after preschool drop off instead of in the afternoon. This allowed me to run in the morning, and because I started further along, I spent more of the run in Como park instead of on the industrial part of Como avenue. This was the first morning run that felt like summer!

Workout on the Falcon Heights "block" after school dropoff. I ran 54321, which unfortunately is actually a pretty hefty workout by the standards of this year. I calculated that my first 5 minutes, which is ever so slightly downhll and with the wind, was 4:43 pace. Beautiful day, a little over 50 degrees and bright blue skies.

6:51 pace, west river road from WBOB after work. 

6:46 pace, east river flats. Happy to have gotten a run in this morning before it got super hot. 

5:56 pace or so, east river road via Como ave, which meant that I got to do a fair amount of Hidden Falls. I ran into the Women Run the Cities race. I didn't get out the door until about 9:00 and immediately recognized that I needed to use the trees as shade as much as possible to avoid sunburning. In addition to this 17 miles run, I biked about 14 miles and apparently walked around 7. Needless to say, I have been working very hard to replenish my fluids but it has been a tough task. 

Perfect day to run- overcast the morning after a storm. 6:48 pace, como classic. 

6:46 pace, Boom island. 

6:45 pace, Farmer's fields. I was going to work out today but felt super tired the past couple of days, so it seemed like a bad idea. 

Workout today. It was really nice outside, and although my St Anthony neighborhood (not University area) workout last year was not my favorite, it was a good time to try that again because 280 is closed, so the dirt track area is less polluted. On 7/24/25 I ran 4 loops. This time I did only 2 plus a tempo mile. I ran (5:01, 5:06, 5:04) for the miles and (2:28, 2:28) for the 800s. Also, from leaving the track gate to the top of the hill, it took me (1:58, 2:03). My workout last year was probably a bit more impressive. 

6:44 pace, west river north extended edition 

6:08 pace, west river road, with all the detours, ending by crossing back over the Veteran's home bridge. It was one of the best running days of the year, with sweet-smelling air, and a cloudy sky with the sun popping out and lighting up the trees. My knee felt alright thankfully. 

6:46 pace, St A parkway. I thought Memorial Day would be a good day to run my most polluted route. Sure enough, I didn't smell anything weird from the industrial area. Today was definitely a sunny, "welcome to summer" run, but honestly it felt fine. I think the humidity makes a big difference. 

6:47 pace, Como classic. Hottest run yet but I felt fine, again possibly due to the lack of humidity as well as the cloud cover. Some nice new blossoms created some good smells. 

Toast day for my track workout of the year. First I ran a 2 mile tempo on the greenway. That was at 5:00 pace, fading towards the end. After full recovery, I did 3x800 in 2:19, 2:19, 2:17 w/ 2:30 rest, although I took less because I didn't feel like I needed it. 

6:52 pace on the way out, east river flats. Felt really nice out today/ 

6:42 pace, farmer's fields.