Ethan Cannon

Smoky outside, that was frustrating. So I ran on the treadmill for the first time in Minneapolis since the snows. Thankfully there was an AC unit but I still got really hot.  

6:48 pace coming back from east river flat. Very humid run today but it was nice to be outside again, the air was ok this morning.

It was a beautiful overcast morning and had just finished raining when I went out. It was great timing to not have the sun because the heat and humidity were for real. The past few days I've had to wash my shorts out in the shower cuz they are soaked through anyway and they might as well not smell like sweat. 6:46 pace. 

6:44 pace approximating Como classic. I ran onto the dock there. It was about 76 degrees when I left and 80 when I returned. The humidity was by far the worst of it. Despite it being an easy run, I started feeling blisters coming on near the end from the sweat. Still, the run wasn't the same level of suffering as the memorable one from last year. Sadly, yesterday on my run was the first time I remember seeing an animal (squirrel) get run over by a car. Today was the first time I remember seeing an arrest. There were two guys who had their hands behind their head at the fairgrounds. Other trucks seemed to be just going about their day which made me almost think it was a practice. One of the guys starting running away in my general direction but seemed to give up kind of easily. Weird, and scary. 

Boom island. It was still >70 degrees and very humid when I woke up today, but not as bad as yesterday. I felt tired on my run (which was maybe a bit under 7 minute pace going on; I forgot to stop my watch at the end). I can't think of any reason why that would be other than the heat. Hopefully I'll feel better when it cools down a bit. 

Yep, you read that right. This was my longest run of all time, breaking the record by about 1.75 miles. I tried to think of it as merely a little extra running around at the end of the gateway trail, and as I ran back, not to think about how far I had come. at 2 hours, 5 minutes, this was not the longest run I've ever done in terms of time, I believe that honor goes to a 2:10 run I did in the snow in Leesburg. After doing a workout last week, the goal today was to try out going far, and to remain in control / to actually enjoy the run the whole time. As I went out, my splits looked pretty fast, but I can honestly say I was doing fine. I realized though that the same pace that feels fine on the front half of a LR may not feel fine on the back half (that being said- when does the back half of a LR ever feel good?). It was a pretty run, mostly sunny. 68-73 degrees, so a lot better than last week, but still, a race should be much cooler than that, and you would consider a marathon in that weather to be very poor conditions. I knew I would need water, and looked desparately for it. They had some at pine point which was nice to learn- I had some on the way out and then a few miles later coming back. Taking my GU went fine. I got more fatigued but still felt really ok coming back. I decided to run hard on my last full mile. That was very painful; I ran 5:30 (although that mile I think is long). It was clear I had not much glycogen left to do something with. Still, I'm proud that I felt good enough to do something like that- I wasn't just slogging back at the pace I had been going. 5:46 pace overall is really exciting. Had I not run that last mile hard that would have felt not bad at all. Including untimed sections total distance was about 21.80 miles. "Mile" splits: 6:20, 5:44, 5:53, 5:45, 5:46, 5:58, 5:11, 6:21, 5:20, 15:56 past the end, 5:19, 6:03, 5:05, 5:54, 5:46, 5:41, 5:58, 5:28, 5:30. 3:05 and 2:51 for the first and last little segment.  Only stopped briefly for water.