Ethan Cannon

I didn't feel amazing today, but for some reason I decided to do strides and felt fine. It was a beautiful rainy day. I saw a double rainbow. This was my first time running down south and then out to the airport (I turned around right there at the airport). This was also my longest "easy" run ever. I tried to be careful not to push the pace. 

We Did a 5-4-3-2-1 Farrell with rest equivalent to whatever we'd run next. I was pretty nervous since it would mean I'd have to run fast in order to get a good workout. Isaac and I made a plan this morning to just do long stuff and work on my lactate threshold for a couple months. So this workout kind of surprised me. Anyway. I planned to go out in 5 minute pace. First 5 minutes was 4:56 pace on the track. After that I ran on the grass. Somehow I was able to make the workout decently hard. Idk how fast I was going, since the fields can be super deceiving. But if I had run just as hard on the track it would have been pretty fast. I hope Derek just had a bad day because he dropped off pretty hard partway through the four minute one. Aidan did his own thing.

 Ran almost the whole thing at Kiwanis. As monotonous as that is, I think this may be something to continue even when I am fully recovered. It just encourages me to run slowly. You can still get your heart rate up decently high because of the hills and grass but in reality you are going really slow. The opposite of this is the Provo river trail. For whatever reason, when I run there, I feel a need to run super fast (note that this is where I run the first day I felt my injury a year ago). Anyway, it felt pretty good. Better than last Wednesday for sure. I was concerned that because of the fast pace yesterday it would be worse, but maybe the short overall length of the workout (only about 3 miles hard) and the fact that it was Mostly grass helped. 

AM: Beautiful warm cloudy weather, I felt a bit tight though.

PM: Felt great!!!! Didn't really feel any pain and I thought I was going slow but I was actually moving pretty quickly. 

This was a little more taxing than I had hoped, both for my Achilles and my body in general. Oh well. Hopefully I am ready to go tomorrow morning! 3 strides 

What a day and what a week! This is my last week of  continual two month long increase in mileage. I am very grateful for this blessing! (Next week I will go down to 75 miles or so before pushing up again). I felt pretty slow at the beginning. I'm not sure what happened but although I felt tired, I never "fell apart" and I ended up going pretty fast. It was no slower than 5:55 pace overall but my have been down to as low as 5:40 pace. I purposely don't find these things out sometimes. I get too competitive with myself. Last night I felt a tweak in my LEFT Achilles which was weird and not good. Today I was reminded of it, but I hope not will be better by Monday!