Ethan Cannon

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. 

Supposed to go running with my daughter, but she wanted to turn around after a mile. Either it was too cold today or she just is no longer interested. Too bad. I finished with running abbreviated farmers fields. 

Como classic, rain route. It was pouring the whole way. 

Didn't calculate this until Saturday. In light of how my long run went, maybe I shouldn't be surprised. After running with the family, did west river roundabout route, and came back in 6:28 pace. 

Today was the last day the temple was open for over six months. That is a huge bummer. It was a very rainy day, you could hear the rain in the temple. It was still raining when I started my run, so I put my key inside one of my gloves. My original plan had been to chill on the way out and make it a "barn burner" on the way back, but by the time I saw one of my old teammates a mile or two in, I could tell that I wasn't going to hold back on the way out. The rain went from a heavy drizzle to a light drizzle and stopped around the turnaround on the road by pine point. At the halfway, I took my GU. It was interesting, I was not surprised to not be aerobically challenged by the pace, but I knew I was a ticking time bomb before "the wheels came off", as so often happens. I haven't blitzed a long run in a while so I was just expecting this to happen. But mile after mile on the back end, it didn't. As the miles ticked by, I just felt stronger, knowing that if I did start to feel bad, it wouldn't have very long to affect me. Now, I was going faster than normal on the back end, but still enjoying it more. Crazy. So I ended up hitting 5:35 pace, my fastest long run of all time!!! I've repeatedly been in the ~5:45 range, but never below 5:43 or so as I recall. I guess the combination of the Gateway, where I tend to run really fast, with the magic of the week after Get in Gear (when I ran a fast LR last year) was enough to do it for me. I'm very pleased and wish I could say this means I am super fit. It's not a bad sign, but I really do feel like it had everything to do with the odd fact that I just didn't run out of gas. Somehow my glycogen was fine. No idea why. Look at these splits! 5:44, 5:53, 5:37, 5:40, 5:39, 5:36, 5:46, 5:46, 5:37, 5:36, 5:38, 5:31, 5:31, 5:31, 5:23, 5:17. 3:47 and 3:38 for the first and last parts, and about 4:30 each way in the middle without a mile marker. Crazy that I just ran 19 miles faster than my marathon pace. I definitely should be able to PR at that distance!

Met a random biker at Pine Point who was talking about all these tiny little towns that I have never heard of lol.