Ethan Cannon

6:49 pace, east river flats on another muggy morning after it rained. 

Once again I noticed the odd thing that I was more tired on a Monday than on other days of the week. In fairness, I was also fasting yesterday and had only eaten one meal since that before my run. 

6:34 pace back from west river roundabout (likely a little slower on the way out). Started raining at the end. This afternoon it has been dumping. My hip has felt painful to the touch today (and I think it previously was like this too) but I'm not currently noticing anything major while running. I will plan to take tomorrow off from a workout (which I have a well planned reason why anyway) and hope that gives it any rest it needs. 

Sheesh. 6:23 pace coming back from east river road. If I'm not mistaken, 6:28 pace overall after getting to 18th. Hip felt ok. Once again, I would love to believe these hot paces on longer, easier efforts would translate into races, at least the 1/2 and marathon distance. We'll know soon enough hopefully with Grandma's coming up. 

6:45 pace, farmers fields (rain route, as I figured things would still be very soggy after we got a whopping 2.3 inches of rain the other day)

Easy run in the rain, longer than a real pre-race for the sake of exercise and enjoyment but short enough to hopefully freshen up the legs and think like a race. 

You couldn't ask for a nicer day. Bright blue skies, weather in the 50s during my run, really nice. The wind was present but not awful. I ran a 10K "race" on river road, starting on 24th and then going south before crossing the bridge that I've only ever crossed on foot as part of Get in Gear, and heading back up north on east river road, ending before the lake street bridge. 31:58. Couldn't have asked for a nicer day but could have asked for a nicer time. Hard to believe I'll be ready for 5:04 pace for a half marathon if I can't run that pace for even 6 miles right now. In terms of effort, obviously I was just wearing my normal shoes and you'll never work as hard when you are running all alone. If you look at it as a 6.2 mile tempo at 5:09 pace, even then its still not amazing. But less terrible. I feel like some workouts have gone well, but for some reason I'm having a hard time sticking that 5 minute-ish pace for several miles in a row, and I'm not sure what the issue is. Dissapointing.