Ethan Cannon

Rest day

I was tired. 7:18 pace on west river road. I went all the way to the end of the path so I could enjoy one more run there with the leaves. I'm looking forward to fully recovering, when I can not feel tired. Recently I've looked back at previous seasons. It seems like I had incredible energy to put in tons of mileage and hammer out lots of workouts and races. I just feel like I have nowhere near that bandwidth these days. I wonder what the difference is- is it the lack of training partners? That might account for some of it, but not all. I probably average 1 hour less of sleep each night than I used to- is that it? Idk. Just interesting and kind of sad. I wouldn't trade my life now for what I had then, as things like family provide so much more sustained joy than running, which is a roller coaster of highs and lows and comes with a guarentee that you will eventually get slower until you are irrelevant. But I wouldn't mind being able to have both. 

7:05 pace coming back from east river flats on a pretty overcast morning. 

On an otherwise nice rainy morning on east river road, my legs were so dead it was hard to enjoy it much. Kind of frustrating. 6:55 pace. 

6:56 pace to boom island. Nice to see the pace come down a bit. 

Wow, the cold weather took me by surprise. It was 28 degrees and cloudy out this morning and just a lot colder than what I've gotten used to. For some reason it took me a long while to warm up my body. Probably also still dealing with fatigue so I wasn't feeling great, but it was a nice quiet morning to run on Como around Como park and then to Wheelock and McCarrons lake. 6:05 pace.