Ethan Cannon

6:45 pace. I went the other direction on Battlefield parkway. I had thought I might be able to do the full loop, but now I see that would've taken at least 12 miles. There was a dusting of snow which allowed me to see my own footprints for much of the way back. Felt tired. Saw a car three times driven by someone who must have been as drunk as a duck. 

6:37 pace, mostly in Celebration, Florida. Wow, that was fun! Virginia and Oregon are both warmer than Minnesota but Florida is on a whole different level and I loved running in the warm weather. It was awesome to run on wooden boardwalks through the jungle-ish vegetation, and pass by beautiful lakes with interesting birds. The greenery just smells different here, which is fun. It reminded me of NOLA but less shoddy.

6:09 pace. I did the same route, but found the correct way to extend the run and then continued on to Island Village. As I read about how many miles people walk at Epcot (7-10+ they said), it definitely worried me. Plus, I had to wake up at 5:20 for this. The entire first half of the run was basically in total darkness. Thankfully, the boardwalks were well lit. Apparently Disney designed the Celebration community- no wonder it is so charming and walkable. Blisters got bad. 

Ran in Florida, in part with my nephew. 

Ran in Florida, in part with my nephew.

6:54 pace, east on Como. It was a total mess outside, particularly close to my home. Coming from Florida, the excitement of this was a little muted, but I did run in shorts today - a rare occurrence during January in MN. 

7:16 pace, east river road. This morning was one of the worst thaw/freezes I've had the opportunity of running through. I'm not sure what factors made it so much of a mess, but it felt like there were very, very few spots that I ran on bare ground rather than crunchy/slick spots. 

The roads today were bad. Exceptionally bad. I didn't fall down, which is nice, but there were massive ice sheets due to the melted snow and the rain we got last night, rendering some areas virtually impassible. I tried to run Como classic but just came back on Como.

6:29 pace. Ironically, an additional dusting of snow actually gave me some more traction in places where I really needed it. I'm not sure what is going on. I don't think I've ever seen sidewalks this bad, with no end in sight. I ran east on Como, then across transitway, on Washington ave, and up west river north to the playground. The river road path was just a total mess of thick ice covered in snow. I'm really surprised that wasn't better taken care of. Still, it was early on a Saturday morning, and at times I was able to run in the road pretty easily, which allowed me to go faster. 

7:28 pace. This morning, about 7 fire trucks drove by my apartment. I found the fire on my run, near Hunting Valley road. It was a bad idea to run east of the fire with the wind blowing that direction, as I breathed some air that was probably pretty gross. Pace was slower than I had thought, but this sometimes happens post-fasting. The University area is well-treated, elsewhere is not.  

7:08 pace, west river road. I was a good deal faster on the way back, likely thanks to the light which helped me see the ice better and run more aggressively. It was a very warm morning to run in shorts. 

7:05 pace, east on Como. Ice situation (I mean, the stuff on the ground) was a lot better today. 

Just under 7 minute pace, Diag / St A parkway. Beautiful sunrise and didn't feel very cold for being 10 degrees. In parallel to how last week the snow gave me more traction, I had another interesting counterintuitive experience. I had my first fall of the season, but it wasn't related to ice. Early on in my run when it was still dark out, I tripped over a bump in the sidewalk. I then fell onto an area of ice, which actually helped me because I was able to slide on it which likely saved some pain and potentially a little damage to what I was wearing. Overall the ice is a lot less bad than last week which has been nice. 

6:57 pace, Boom island. It was my first time running on Dinkytown greenway in a while it feels like. Bridge 9 is supposed to open today but there were still vehicles on it when I ran by. This morning was a best-case scenario in that it was warm out, but the snow that had been supposed to come last night didn't amount to much of anything. 

6:20 pace. East on Como with detours around St Paul campus and Como lake, all the way to the top of the hill on Wheelock. This was designed to be another good run for the morning after a snowfall. It was cold and more windy on the way home so it took me longer to make it back, but still I have no regrets about running outside. I very nearly ran inside. 

Treadmill run. It was feels like -23 but running to the gym I almost felt like I could have handled it. The fans that are in there are overall a huge plus, but they are on constantly so they do heat up the room. 

7:07 pace, Roseville route. It was -5 degrees, which was the coldest actual temperature I've run in in at least a couple of years. It was of course not one of my more enjoyable runs, but nor was it ridiculously uncomfortable. I came home and was able to immediately get back to my life as the thawing process wasn't very painful. My hands started to feel cold early on during the run so I tried to like wiggle my fingers a lot but that only worked for a couple minutes before I started feeling weird sensations doing so. 

7:11 pace, west river road north. As in, the original WRR north. Today was my first time since last April crossing bridge 9. It was really nice to cross the river on a pedestrians-only bridge. They have really high fences now but you can still see out. There was some snow on the ground, but not too much slipping. Felt relatively nice and warm. 

As for the new shoes, they felt fine. My first impression was that my toes were being pressed down into the ground and were getting more of a workout. The last time I really fell in love with a shoe right off that bat was the spongy Saucony Triumph 20s. Thus far, these seem to be ok though. 

7:02 pace, St. A parkway. I considered running inside but the cold snap that starts today will force me indoors for at least tomorrow and Saturday. 

To develop my opinion better on these shoes, I will need to run on a harder surface than the layer of snow I was on most of today. 

Today was a "stay inside all day" type of day due to the cold, so I ran a bit further on the treadmill. I've become better at being able to listen to "productive" things on the treadmill recently which is nice. 

I ran on the treadmill for 98 minutes, plus getting there and back. 

6:52 pace, east river flats. This was my first time running that route in quite a while. What I found was that it definitely appeared untreated. However, it's been a while since it snowed and people walking on it must have really packed down the snow into something that is not very slippery, nor very soft. So it didn't really impact me much which was nice. 

7:06 pace, a mix of Como classic and Como ave. 0 degrees and feels like -15. Wasn't easy going into the wind but it could've been worse. 

6:59 pace, including 6:46 pace on the way back from west river north, when the wind was more at my back. -2 outside but it was whatever. I got out a few minutes later than normal today but I can definitely tell that the mornings are getting lighter. So far so good with the new shoes. 

6:55 pace, St A parkway. Got some gross air this morning. The cold felt fine, but I won't complain when my morning runs are above 0 degrees again. 6:46 pace on the way back. Going out I was extra slow because navigating Talmage is challenging in the dark with all the ice formations it has. 

6:51 pace, Como classic-ish via Hendon. This time around, the roads were much more passable. 

6:05 pace, west river road. -1 when I left but I never really felt cold, mostly due to my quick pace, but perhaps a little due to a bright rising sun. Talmage is still a mess but a lot of the surfaces I was running on weren't. This allowed me to kind of push it and get my heart rate up in a way I haven't been able to much this winter. One thing I noticed is that my UMN face covering seems to do a better job of allowing me to breathe in those situations, rather than getting sucked into my mouth like my other one does. It shows how much I'm favoring morning runs that I chose to do this instead of run on the gateway in 20 degrees later today!

7:15 pace, ran around St Paul campus and Roseville. Frankly, I'm surprised it was that fast. It was one of those Mondays after a snow where you come back to an area you had slogged through earlier and it got plowed during the 20 minutes you were gone. 

Today's run was surprisingly comfortable- the cold didn't feel very cold, and I really can't complain about the job they did taking care of the snow on my route. 6:47 pace, east river road. 

6:55 pace, Boom island. 

6:54 pace, east river flats. 

6:59 pace, Como classic winter route. Felt very spring-y. It stayed so warm last night that most of the melted snow didn't refreeze and there was little ice to deal with. I know it'll get cold again but I am going to enjoy each nice day. 

6:04 pace. This was the second time I think I've run more than 10 miles on St A parkway. I looped around the golf course, up Resevoir blvd, and then looped around Silverwood park.

6:48 pace, Como classic winter (via Hendon). It is interesting how as it gets warmer you dress lighter, and end up feeling just as cold as you were when it was 30 degrees colder. Still, it's nice when your movement feels less constricted. 

6:45 pace, east river road. 

7:05 pace, east river flats. Knee hurt a bit today. 

6:44 pace, Roseville route

Approximately 6:50 pace, west river north. After running in the Supernovas for a few straight weeks, the Hurricanes felt very clunky. 

6:10 pace, Res woods to McCarrons lake. For being nearly 30 degrees when I started, it wasn't the best run. There was lots of ice from the freeze thaw cycle so thankfully as it was a Saturday morning I was able to safely run a lot of it on the roads as opposed to sidewalks. The air was kind of dirty, and you could see an actual haze at times. To shake things up on the way back I did 6x1 minute on, 1 minute off. Knee hurt a bit. 

Today was definitely fast, although I don't know if it was really the 6:33 pace that I calculated for west river road. There was very little interruption due to the ice, which was nice. Very warm outside; I got to run in shorts and never felt cold at all. 

6:36 pace, east river road. Shorts day again. Knee started hurting at about 20 minutes in, although it backed off thereafter.

Rainy and windy morning. I tried to do the real Como classic for the first time in months, but the soft surface trail was a total slip and slide. Not bothering to get my exact pace. 

Treadmill day. It was warm out so I thought about running outside, but that probably would have been a mess. Apparently we got almost 8 inches. 

6:53 pace, west river north. Apparently we got upwards of 8 inches of snow by yesterday morning, but the roads and paths were really clear. It's nice to run in clean air and clean snow. 

6:01 pace, east river road. I did a 54321 workout on the way back. It was good to pass the time as I ran into the wind and also because I am out of shape of course. The wind came decently strong and was very cold on my way home, so my thawing experience was quite painful today. Slightly faster going out than coming back.

6:44 pace, St. A parkway. Sunny and cold, like 3 degrees this morning. But I was dressed for it so I felt fine. 

East to Como lake. I was already running fast so I decided to do one segment fast. It ended up being 1.06 miles at 5:11 pace. YIKES. 6:32 pace overall. 

6:51 pace, although it felt slow. Boom island. 

6:42 pace, west river road. 

6:47 pace, Cleveland ave.

Just under 6 flat pace. East on Como, all the way into Villa park. On the way back, I did 5 x 3 minutes on, 1 minute off. 

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.

4x1k on, 1k float on a route I've done repeatedly around the football stadium. This time I calculated an exact distance of 0.98 km; I knew it was a little short previously. 2:59, 3:24, 2:56, 3:34, 2:56, 3:29, 2:55, 3:24. If the correction is accurate, you'd add 3-4 seconds per rep to the total. I'd be fine with that! Once again, I appear to be in better shape than I think. 

6:46 pace, Roseville route (Cleveland ave). For all the talks of a winter 2.0 and freezing rain, this run was just fine, with a light rain coming down and wet (not slippery) ground. I've often been surprised to wake up and see white ground after a surprise snow, whereas today I was surprised it was not white. Felt tired, presumably due to workout. 

One of my fastest east river flats runs ever- 6:40 pace (62:27). Felt just fine going out, but I did feel more tired coming back. 

I ran to Long Lake for the first time today. The weather wasn't great for it but even so I'm not sure I would try it again. It was about 34 degrees and alternated rain, snow, and nothing. 5:57 pace. It was a grind to be honest. Just cold and tiring. The new playground at Hansen park is looking up to be really great!

6:49 pace, west river road. 

7 miles at the crack of dawn, St Paul campus.

Hard to tell how far it was because MapMyRun is so bad under Outside. But it was an afternoon run so I probably ran this far even though I was tired. WRR including all of Winchell trail, ran from Masonic children's down toward the locks for the first time but then emerged up at the veteran's home. 

I was grateful to have been able to run at alll today after the night and morning that we had, but the run actually went well. It didn't feel too windy and I didn't feel too tired or full.

6:39 pace, first time this year running Farmer's fields. It was a glorious afternoon; the sky couldn't be more blue. Very enjoyable.

6:07 pace, Resevoir Woods at about 10 am due to a late start (but not in a bad way). That is a pretty darn good pace for how I felt doing it and my life circumstances right now. I'm very grateful. Legs felt tired but not from running and overall it was fine. I did three 1 minute pickups on the way back.

Ran in Aarhus, Denmark. It is a cool place. I took my phone on my run for the first time today in many years for a couple of reasons. I definitely prefer not to, and the weight of the phone in my hand is honestly the lesser of the reasons why.