Ethan Cannon

7:03 pace on east river flats. I didn't think I was going to be able to do this route until spring. I'll let my pace speak for itself in terms of how difficult the snow made it to run.

6:48 pace on west river? Don't think I messed up the distance. It was 4 degrees and sunny, so when the wind is at your back it felt great and when it is in your face it hurt kind of bad. 

Ran on the treadmill for the 2nd time this year. It was -7 or so outside with not too much wind. The other reason was so I can do an impromptu workout. The workout was even more impromptu than I thought. I was planning on doing 4x5 min (essentially 1 mile) hard, with equal recovery. I did the first as a "warmup" in 5:35ish according to the treadmill. The second was in 5:10 or so. Then I thought really hard about what I was doing and how I don't trust treadmills. Earlier, I had taken my pulse and seen that on this treadmill. I was about 120 bpm going just under 7 minute pace today which lines up with reality. I thought to myself: since my perceived footspeed is clearly not a good indicator of how fast I am going on the treadmill, I am starting to use heart rate and the "talk test" as better measures. Another thing is: how HARD is the workout actually? In a real workout, it is a struggle to get to the end. Often times on the treadmill I am just twiddling my thumbs and waiting for the time to go down. At that point I realized I could probably just go three straight miles to end the workout, maxing out the treadmill at supposedly 5:00 pace. So I went ahead and did that. I think it was after that that I took my heart rate at about 150+. I also tested the neighboring treadmill and that pace felt similar. Anyway, if that was legitamate, I would be proud of myself for actually getting in a workout and actually doing well. However, I still wonder if at higher paces the accuracy is messed up. 

7:07 pace on coal mine road. Given the route and the circumstances, that's not bad.

6:58 pace. Down past the church and onto the trail

Ran down to the bike path and then south along it. 6:05 pace overall, probably about 5:47 pace on the path itself based on my splits. From the outset I just couldn't get into a rhythm. Overall it was probably in the top 25 percent of most painful long runs. My quads were so sore from the hills I have been running here in Medford that each step hurt, which makes it hard to get rolling. When it was really uncomfortable was near the end which is hard anyway to gain a couple hundred feet of elevation after running 17+ miles. I tried to take a GU while running and got it open but gave up on taking it while going sub-6 minute pace. Good news is my grey shorts worked well to contain it on the way out. It was so misty that my eyebrowns got water on them rather than ice like they do in MN.