Ethan Cannon

First day with the new shoes. They were certainly underwhelming from the expectation I had that they would be soft like Hokas Clifton 7s. Hopefully they will end up being worth the $80 each. On the bright side, I ran 6:40 pace for Como classic so while I'm not sure I would use them on workouts, it's clearly not like I'm tying bricks to my feet as some seemed to suggest online.  

6:47 pace coming back from east river road to rec center. 3 strides. Didn't count pace going out because I tried to run on the path that goes down from St Thomas jut. It's not the best. 

4x1600 at the track. Not as windy as last week. Here are my splits, not because I am proud of the splits, but because I am proud that for some reason I can remember them a few hours later without looking at my watch (I only recorded splits at the end of each mile anyway):

 4:57 (74, 2:28, 3:42); 4:55 (72, 2:25, 3:40); 4:51 (71, 2:23, 3:37); 4:49 (72, 2:25, 3:38).

About 3 minutes of rest for each. Even though it wasn't great, it feels good to do something hard. 

7:02 pace but I took every longcut on rec center to west river. Felt tired though. 

Tied record of 6:40 pace on east river flats, while wearing my Nimbus'. Not bad for a pair of clunkers!

5:54 pace on the gateway trail. 

Splits: 6:18, 6:05, 5:53, 5:59, 6:03, 5:57, 6:02, 6:06, 5:53, 6:07, 6:17, 6:02, 6:17, 5:25, 5:20, 5:17. 4:06 and 4:03 for the first and last chunk, 2:43 and 2:51 in the middle. The goal was to keep it nice and easy during the body of the run to conserve energy for a 3 mile tempo at the end. I was feeling kind of fatigued and it ended up being a battle. On the one hand, the last three measured miles are downhill (50 feet but you feel it), but it was also allegedly 17 mph winds going southeast and of course at that speed my shoes did end up feeling pretty slow. Not great still but I wanted to get in a workout since I won't next Wednesday in Chicago. Nice, quiet day on the trail.