Ethan Cannon

I ran from work for the first time ever. I unfortunately have gotten used to waking up in the morning, opening the weather app on my phone, and being dismayed to see that the air is still very smoky. Thus it was this morning. Now thankfully, right around my deadline for heading out on my run this afternoon, the AQI started to improve a lot such that I hardly noticed it. So it was actually a nice run on west river. But I have to say, I'm definitely a morning run guy. It feels better on my body, and the roads are a lot quieter at 7:30 AM than 4:30 PM. 

Things can change fast. This morning was super nice out. We ran to 11th, then my wife fell on her knee on the way back, one week after I did the same. You'd think running was like this extreme sport or something. So then I just did the same abbreviated farmers fields run that I did recently. 

I had been anticipating this workout. I'm grateful for running, and separately for training. It's just fun. I hope that as my fitness declines over the years to come, that I can still enjoy getting out there and doing workouts, some of which will go well and others less well; I want to still enjoy the work and feel accomplished afterwards. Today I wanted to test my super shoes head to head, as the new ones didn't feel as good as I had hoped during my race. The end result is that they felt too similar to make a clear call. If I could buy a brand new pair, it would definitely be the Vaporfly 2s instead of the 3s. But I don't think it is a good idea to revert to my old 2s for upcoming races. I was supposed to do 2 miles, then a couple of 400s in each of the racing shoes separately, then another 2 miles. As usual, the first 400 was telling. It felt fast, so it wsa a good thing that I ran 70-71. 4:48 through the first 1600 before it caught up to me a bit and I finished in 9:47 for the first rep (goal was 10:00). I got 3-4 minutes rest between that and each of the 4s, which were run in 70-71, because it took a while to change shoes. On the last one I wasn't sure what I would do. I focused on trying to do a good or ok job on each lap, just like I had on my way home from my fast long run a few weeks ago. Once again, each split turned out ok. I hit 1600 in 4:50 and finished in 9:43. When you look back on previous workouts like miles or 800s, that's not bad at all. I'm not sure I'm in way better shape than I was when I ran Ks a little ways back, but either I've improved a lot or the rain and wind that day really slowed me down, as my 3K split was faster than I averaged for each K that day. 

Started my run at 5:45 this morning. I had planned to go shorter and double for the first time in two years, but I woke up and couldn't fall back to sleep. I had my PhD qualifying exam today, and wanted to at least run somewhat to engage my brain. As I write this, I am feeling kind of gross and really hope I can get the rest I have fallen behind on. Felt tired and slow but still ran 6:43 pace on a beautiful, overcast morning on east river road. I've only run once in the morning when it was dark, and it was sure nice this morning to have light despite the early hour. 

6:39 pace, como classic. Little light rain at the end.