Wesley Hunt

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Member Since:

Oct 19, 2010

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Running Accomplishments:

Arkansas Traveller 100: 1st Place; October 7, 2017

Arkansas Traveller 100: 1st Place; October 1, 2016

Arkansas Traveller 100: 15:36:33, 1st Place (Course Record); October 3, 2015

Arkansas Traveller 100: 15:59:12, 1st Place; October 4, 2014

War Eagle Tail Twister 50K: 4:07:12, 2nd Place; June 3, 2017

2017 New York City Marathon: 2:53:59; November 5, 2017

2013 Boston Marathon: 2:59:11; April 1, 2013

PR, Sleeping Bear Marathon: 2:45:41, 1st Place; October 7, 2012

PR, Soaring Wings Half Marathon: 1:20:33, 8th Place; October 29, 2011

Personal:

Pride necessarily sprouts and grows; a pride that can only come from relentless kneading of unwilling flesh, painful months of grinding and burning away all that is heavy, all that is strength-sapping and useless to the body as a projectile. --John L. Parker, Jr., runner/author

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Fri, Aug 31, 2012

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
6.50	12.00	0.00	0.00	18.50

16.5 Miles in 1:55 on TM set to 1.0 incline; first 12.5 Miles in 83 minutes (6:40 pace with a fast half-mile to close it out) and last 4 Miles in 32 minutes.

So, it's the appropriate time for a self-assessment. I ran lots of aerobic miles this week, and today, the first 9.5-10 Miles at MP felt pretty good. It was pretty tough from that point foward, though. Even the easy miles at 8:00 pace felt like work. But I take solace in the fact that the high mileage, draining as it is, will pay dividends this fall.

Wesley

Night Sleep Time: 6.00	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 6.00

Comments

From Bret on Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 10:25:05 from 71.43.123.107

Nice work Wesley. The thing about an aerobic build up -to truly get its full benefit at least in my experience, is to lay off the anaerobic effort because it will be counter productive to the purpose of the aerobic running - capillarization and mitochondria creation. Anaerobic efforts introduce acidosis which stunts those processes. If you felt like the "easy" miles were "work" - then you may want to consider several days of aerobic running with a few very easy regenerative efforts - that'll reset the blood ph and put you back on course. Just a thought...

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