Ethan Cannon

It was almost 50 degrees this morning and my wife had been up a lot with the kids so it was a perfect day to take my daughter on a run when she woke up. East river flats. We had a good time. I'm sure my shoulders will feel sore tomorrow, but as a bonus, the rest of my body (i.e., feet) felt pretty good. 

7:03 pace. Nice day on Como classic. 

6:48 pace coming home from east river road. I'm a little annoyed- we are trying to cut back on my backlog of running shoes and get rid of some that I don't need. I thought I had a good 100 miles in each of my Peg 37s from way back when but I did not like the ones I wore today- they rubbed my heals, I felt pain on my medial right knee, and they just have a different feel that I'm not really used to. So, sad as it is, I will be retiring each of those. Good thing I have two new pairs of Sauconys on their way, and here's to them being good. 

West river road north for variety. 6:54 pace. I would like to extend a major congratulations to those working on the bridge near downtown. It has been under construction since we moved here 2.25 years ago. I've never been able to run straight under it, as opposed to under a little covered scaffolding type thing. No idea why it took that long but I'm sure people are happy to be done with it. 

6:47 pace, farmers fields. It was a great overcast morning for running. The only bad part was a yucky strong smell coming from a building near my house. 

This run was very loosely 6:13 pace and very loosely 16 miles. It was a combination of a couple of things: being on break, I wasn't overly concerned about it being all "fast", plus the leaves have mostly fallen so I could better see the trail below the bluff, and finally, snow hasn't fallen yet, so the trail was visible. Basically, I spent way more time on the Winchell trail than ever before. It was really nice, of course. And hopefully this will benefit me even during the summer, now that I know trails exist where they do. The most significant one comes right after the railroad bridge (you can actually run under the bridge I think staying on the trail). It goes down to the river and goes for quite a while. The way to get out of it is the driveway that goes to the boating club. There is potential to go even further that I didn't experiment with though (basically, I don't want to have to climb back up the ridge like I did once with my team). I also stayed on the trail further than I have before at other times too. Overall, it's a highly soft-surfaced route if you do it like that. 

I had high hopes for the new shoes after trying them on last night. The upper fits on like a glove, just like the Rides. Well, they aren't perfect, but I'm glad I have them. They are better than the shoes I am currently wearing.