Ethan Cannon

7:06 pace, Como classic. Just went chill.

Apparently 7:10 pace? Felt faster. I just did Como classic yesterday and had a workout planned but ended up going with the whole family. I thought my achilles could use one extra day anyway so it's not a problem. 

Workout at farmers fields. Its funny how cross country and the marathon are similar in the sense that for both of them, the race pace you need to run isn't very fast, and it's easy to convince yourself it will be easy. However, the marathon fatigues you in a way no other distance does, and the soft surface and hills of XC really slow you down. I only ran on the grass actually for a few seconds but it felt more energy sapping for sure than the gravel. I did 2x(mile,1200,800) with 2-2:30 rest between reps and 4 minutes jogging recovery between sets. I ran (4:55, 3:40, 2:15) and (4:53, 3:40, 2:12). I knew in advance that the 1200s were a bit long and the 800s were short (those were actually ~7 seconds short of a half mile). Felt kind of banged up with my knee, achilles tendon, and what felt like really tight hamstrings, but my achilles tendons did ok and I'm grateful to have been able to get that workout in. 

6:53 pace, east river road. Although that was slow, I feel ready to do at least a small workout tomorrow in terms of energy but worry that my achilles is not quite there. It's a close call. 

Ran around the diagonal. Don't know my pace coming back. Body felt ok. I definitely made the right decision not to work out today. 

Warm morning by September standards. I ran around the stadium area where they were prepping for a football game. I had wanted to get one more workout in to at least become more accustomed to running fast, even if unfortunately the timing was off such that this had to be on the track as opposed to golf course like I would have liked. My Achilles felt barely well enough to do the little workout- just 4x1k with 60 seconds rest. I ran 2:59, 2:57, 2:57, 2:53. So, not great but I got the work done.