Ethan Cannon

6:38 pace on the way back from east river road, slower on the way out. I was pleasently surprised by how my leg felt, after it was pretty sore this morning and hurt more than I had expected yesterday. It has actually shifted more to my groin than my hamstring. I'm hoping this is the beginning of the end and I can do a light workout Thursday. My wife ran in her new Saucony Triumph 20s today and thought they were super bouncy- no surprise when she's been using Hoka Cliftons for a long time. 

6:41 pace coming back from Como classic. Took the rain route coming home as the ground had gotten surprisingly wet with this mornings shower. Leg feeling better. 

I unforunately missed an incredible opportunity to run on the bike path at Carver park reserve, because it started raining. Instead, we only got to run to the nature center and back, which was still fun, and made me wish we could have explored more. Pushing only one of my daughters is much easier than having both. Came home and finished mileage around the St Paul campus.

Track work. Muggy morning but that didn't affect me, nor did the wind. The track was a little slippery which could have done something (wondering if traction is a weakness of the Triumphs, as I don't recall slipping like this on a track before). Plan was to do 5x800 with 90 seconds rest in 30, 25, 20, 20, X. Ended up going 2:27, 2:24, 2:20, 2:17, 2:15. I would have liked that to have been easier or to have gone faster for the effort. Oh well. I don't plan to do anything else hard before the race, though hopefully I can stay fresh with some strides at least maybe. Grateful to do a legit hard workout after skipping last week due to injury. 

6:50 pace coming back from east river flats, probably slower going out. Tired from the workout presumably. 

This felt too hard for being 6:22 pace. I wouldn't say it was a new route, more of a modified one. I ran up to lake Johanna again, but this time I took a slight detour to hit Langton lake park and a greenway. Not a bad run, just felt tired. I left pretty early, like 6:45, but this time of year I could have left an hour earlier and it still would have been light out.