Ethan Cannon

6:52 pace on St. A parkway (surprised myself by doing that route). Very dissapointed to report that my knee pain was back today and bad as ever. It was a doozy of a day with a low of 75 degrees and exceptional humidity.

6:49 pace on my "hard surface" Farmers fields route. Last night was a major storm and it was still raining early this morning. Nice day for a run. My knee didn't hurt as early in the run or as much. Also, I did some exercises which may or may not help. Bummed that a workout is out of the question for tomorrow but grateful to be able to run at all. 

6:32 pace on the way back from east river flats on a misting morning that was in the low/mid 60s but felt super nice compared to previous days. The fast pace is due to my decision to run hard up the main hill on the way home, about 3 minutes. My knee felt better during that than it had before, so I decided to run another hard minute up onto the bridge. I wonder if this is one of this exceptionally rare injuries that do better (or at least no worse) by running hard on them. I rememeber one previous situation like that. We'll see. Time is of the essense if I want to train for Griak. I'm tired of my knee feeling like this. More exercises. 

6:37 pace, east river road. Ran past the stadium on the first day of football/fall sports season. Knee didn't feel amazing or terrible. 

Still knee pain. Bummer. We'll see if I end up doing a workout tomorrow. West river north. 

Morning run on west river road. The mileage is down in part because I don't need it- I've shifted my focus from a marathon to two races no longer than a 10K. Time to work on speed. Partway through, I ran 3x(3,2,1) with recovery equal to the length of the next rep. Including the final three minute jog, that made for a 36 minute workout that covered 6.25 miles, which is 5:45 pace. That's pretty good in my mind, it means if the hard stuff was 5 minute pace the easy would have had to been approximately 6:30. I think that the hard was faster than that because the easy had to have been slower. Overall the run was pretty chill but at the end once I started going slow my knees started aching again which created its own sort of fatigue. It weirds me out that running hard seems to be doable with this injury, but I'll take it. I need to start putting in some work to get in shape. 6:04 pace overall. 9 mile bike ride later in the morning (pulling a trailer).