Ethan Cannon

6:41 pace, east river flats, with the stroller! Another downside of the Gel Nimbus' is they collect sweat really well- they were worse on today's run than my Triumph's were on Saturday's LR. This was our longest bike/run yet. Kids have done really well. I would never do a long run, that is just too much for them and for me. 

6:50 pace, Como classic. Almost that time of year when the fairgrounds close. 

6:42 pace on the way back from east river flats. Very hot and humid out this morning and I felt tired. 

I don't plan to do that again. I wanted to go very light on my last effort before the race next week, so I decided to do 2x2 miles near race pace (5:35 pace, a little fast to account for the lack of hills). I should have know when I calculated that meant I needed to be hitting 84s that that is just too slow to run on the track. It just became kind of monotonous and makes you wonder if you can really hit that pace for ~105 laps. I did do a really crude job taking my heart rate, and was surprised it was as high as it was tbh, maybe 140 right after my first rep and 150+ after my second. I took a 90 second break in between them to switch directions and very quickly my pulse dropped down to 100. Anyway, I ran 11:03 and then 10:49 (very similar splits of just a bit fast until I ran a 68 last lap and really felt how slippery the rain made things). Still, it's always nice to go the track on a wet day and go for it.  

6:40 pace, west river road. Felt tired though. The heat wave is almost over. 

I had been looking forward to an MLR at Resevoir Woods (because it's that time of year in Minnesota when you can look forward to your daily run) but the kids were grumpy this morning so somehow we decided to do a bike/run together, which seemed like a bit of a sacrifice at first. It turned out to be great. I think I am getting better at pushing the stroller. The girls did great. It wasn't as hot as it had been previous days so it felt great outside, and we had a really nice time running to Como park, all the way around the lake, and then I dropped them off at the playground and ran 3 miles all around the trails. Then we went home. It was just a really nice day and fun to do something like that as a family. It was also our first saturday doing something like this so the family got to enjoy the quiet streets. Amazingly enough, according to mapmyrun I hit exactly 14 miles. That's impressive. 6:39 pace for the overall run.