Ethan Cannon

6:48 pace farmers fields. Felt quite tired today.

Boom island

First 1.5 was with the fam. Road got cut off due to flooding down on the banks of the east side of the river. 

Did basically the same route again. There was no "warm up", no "start line" or anything. I just started out feeling nice and loose and picking it up while feeling relaxed. I did start to push it more on the way out but still feeling good, then on the way home I realized that would be the only pace segment I could accurately calculate and didn't want to slow down for it. I probably sped up and ran the back 7 miles at 5:17 pace. The seems to be a magical "hard" pace that I can go for 8-12 miles, and is somewhere between half marathon and marathon pace. 

Slower run on St Anthony parkway today, especially on the way out (well, it felt slower. apprarently I still averaged 6:41). Super humid after rain last night but not annoying since it was only 60 degrees. 

Ran out of time because we had a stroller accident :(

About 6:50 pace, west river road

Felt a bit tired. 6:42 pace for most of it on farmer's fields. 

6:41 pace around Como lake

65 degrees and humidissimo. But I'll never complain about an overcast, quiet Saturday morning on east river road. I felt tired this morning and as I started out, I told myself there's no way I'd run fast (and I knew I wouldn't run far cuz I got started late and am biking later). Somehow I averaged 6:07s on the way out and 5:31s on the way back, feeling very slow. 

10.5 on St A parkway in the deluge. Beautiful.

Wow, it was so humid I could hardly think. Was slightly helpful that there was some cloud cover and wind near the end. 80 degrees when I got home around 8:15. My achilles tendon was bugging me too so overall I didn't enjoy the diagonal as much as I could have. 6:34 pace. 

Boom Island loop, starting with the fam. Grey outside and 72 degrees felt so much nicer than yesterday. Apparently 6:31 pace but it didn't feel that hard. 

10 miles with the fam and on west river north. 

Farmers fields. The sun was way high into the air for it being 7 am or whatever. 6:52 pace.

Achilles still feel tight, but nothing terrible. 6:18 pace on a new loop I won't do again. Did 1x3 min at what I estimated to be race pace. 

Probably about 6:45 pace. 80+ degrees when we started and went on the lateral today, but the shade and wind helped. Also, it was either less humid (not likely lol) or I am just getting used to it because it was hot but not nearly as miserable as last time. The reality is that although that is hot for a morning run, I have run in temps much warmer than 80 degrees, even in humidity, when I've gotten used to them. 

To Como park

About 6:40 pace on west river. Started with the family. Felt pretty good today. 

Beautiful run down on the east river flats.

Pre race easy run and strides

Lift Bridge 10 mile race today! I kept checking the weather, and was worried about it. Turns out when we got to Bayport, MN, it was about 70 degrees and 90 percent humidity because it was pouring rain. By a miracle, the rain almost entirely stopped by the time I began my warm up, and the weather wasn't ever too much on my mind during the race. I had been kicking myself for not bringing an extra pair of shorts for the race, but that wasn't necessary. The race itself was beautiful. It was very hilly. You gain 230 feet of elevation over the first 6 miles, and extra when you account for the downhills that there were too. At one point I was running up a steep hill in a random neighborhood all on my own (I won by 7 minutes) and it couldn't have seemed less like a race. But a race it was, and I really enjoyed it. The last few miles didn't feel too bad since they were so downhill. Given the hills, the wind, humidity, and temp, I can say with confidence that I would be sub 50 at the Pear Blossom and sub 1:07 in a half marathon with better conditions. Not bad for employing my "just run" strategy of training. 

But wait, there's more! I know this should be met with skepticism, but the previously certified course was completely changed like a week ago for reasons unknown to me. When I plug it into map my run, I got 10.4 miles! On further investigation, there are discrepancies at least in the very first mile, as the course map shows us starting at a different point than we actually did. Map my run hits the one mile approximately .25 miles before the map does for that reason. I can't write it off as a better PR than what I ran, but a 10.25 mile race would have been 49:50ish, and a 10.40 mile race would have been 49:10ish. Update to that: the race website has a Mapmyrun map of the course. It shows you hitting 10 miles before the end of the race, and shows you starting further ahead than we started. Totaled up, it mean I ran about 10.15 miles. I feel good about sticking with that. That is 50:22 for a 10 mile. 

Splits, according to mile markers: 5:09, 5:03, 5:15, 10:26, 5:20, 5:08, 5:03, 4:44, 4:56. You can see the effect of hills.

Boom island, 6:45 pace. Didn't feel too bad after having raced. 

East river flats, 6:50 pace. Nice rain this morning. Went at 6:15 and it was light as if it were 8 am! That must have made it easier to go running at that time.

Feeling very stressed the past couple days. Whether this contributed more to me feeling tired today or race recovery, I don't know. 7 minute pace. 

9 miles on farmers fields, about 7 minute pace but felt good. Rainy day, it was the best type of run.