Ethan Cannon

Carterville with Derik and Aiden from the farm team. 3 strides. 

I feel like I might be a little lighter now. That's good. It might take a few more weeks to get down to where I need to be using this method. Today I planned to do a 7 mile "power" run along the river trail . The past several workouts though my first mile has been in the 5:30s so when I went out in 5:08 I thought "uh oh" and kind of reverted into "go hard until you break" mode. Miles 2-3 were 10:25. Miles 5-6 were 10:34 (I stopped to go to the bathroom real quick at halfway). I could've done all 7 miles but decided just to accelerate near the end and call it there. Hmm. 5:13 pace. Still a really good improvement. 

Hmm. Grass loops at Kiwanis. Didn't feel amazing. Reminder that I need to be careful as I step down the pace over the coming weeks as I get faster but particularly as my workouts change and involve running at faster paces.

AM: 5 miles.

PM: 10 miles.

I think I felt a little bit better today. Hope to see continued improvement. 

Ran Carterville with the boys again. Still not where I'd like it to be so I didn't do strides. Hopefully I can get a good weekend of rest and then pump it next week. 

Wow. That's one of the most grueling runs I can remember. I just felt tired pretty much right from the getgo. With the wind blasting out of the canyon on the way up, I was exhausted. Then on the way down I sort of went into a subconcious state where I told my legs and arms to keep moving and then just checked out. Near the end my vision started getting weird and I was battling to maintain what I'd guess was 6 minute pace. Oh well. At least I have a long time to recover. These things happen. I ran 48 minutes out, 42:30 back for 90:30 overall but I was just estimating 15 miles so it may not have been exact.