Ethan Cannon

I'm not sure exactly, but approximately 6:47 pace coming back from west river road roundabout. 

6:43 pace, Como classic rain route. Just another day of one of the best weather months I remember in Minneapolis. Felt so lucky to run through the forresty area of Como park in the rain. 

Wow! Today I ran the last possible workout I could to compare my fitness this year to last spring. I've gotten positive signals thus far from my workouts, long runs, and easy days, but very negative signals from my 10K race and 10K pseudo-race, which unfortunately are probably better predictors of half marathon fitness than anything else. Anyway, I got a bad sleep last night but went for it anyway. Really nice sunny day outside, the workout was short enough that the temp wasn't an issue. 3 by mile at the fairgrounds with 80 seconds rest. 4:42, 4:37, 4:39. Sheesh! On mapmyrun, the distance is 1.00 miles even when you do it completely by hand and cut corners in line with reality. And, I know this is the same course I ran on 6/6/23 and averaged ~10 seconds slower. Hamstring felt tight during the last rep and afterwards, so I am hoping I can take care of it the next few days. 

Yuck, another bad sleep thanks to a super loud train that came through at 5 am. 6:44 pace coming back from east river flats and definitely slower than that (probably slower than 7 minute pace) going out, due to my hamstring. Not to be more negative, but I give the Gel Nimbus' a failing grade. Less than 400 miles in, they don't feel remotely like a max cushion shoe. At this point in their lifetime, the Hokas Clifton 7s were just getting started. And yet, they still have the problems of maximalist shoes in terms of their bulkiness. Too bad.  

Wow, surprisingly slow 7:05 pace on east river flats. That's way slower than I've been going recently. But my hamstring felt better so that's good. 

Nice and slow 6:28 pace today. I think my hamstring will feel better by next week. Today I finally did a long run out to Theodore Wirth park. Mpls really is an ideal spot for running. It was a great overcast morning and the park was super cool and bigger than I thought. In fact, after I came home and had breakfast we went out there again as a family, and I particularly enjoyed walking in the hills, which you don't get much of around here. Idk if I'll do it again. Like with lake Johanna, this route is best used during the summer when you aren't trying to go fast. There are a couple of less nice sections (including Hennepin, which I took out there to be more direct). The nicer parts are the park of course and the Boom/Nicollet island pieces. I did get really lucky once I got to the park as I followed my gut at crossroads and it turned out that I made the right choices.