Wesley Hunt

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Member Since:

Oct 19, 2010

Gender:

Male

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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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Tue, May 03, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
8.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	8.00

8 Miles Easy in 60:00 (7:30/mile) with four 30-45sec striders during Mile 8; treadmill set to 1.0 incline; legs felt good after two days off.

Given that I don't have any immediate plans to run a Half or Full Marathon, I've been thinking a lot about the volume of base mileage that I want to maintain in between more structured training periods. I'm pretty comfortable at 40 miles/week, but if I want to get to the next level, do I need to go higher mileage? Or in order to increase my speed, should I focus on the intensity/quality of my runs rather than total mileage?

I want to do this the right way. And I'm willing to work hard to get there, even during the off-cycle, maintenance periods between race training.

Wesley

Night Sleep Time: 5.00	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 5.00

Comments

From Rob Murphy on Wed, May 04, 2011 at 16:39:11 from 205.127.70.66

Yes, you do need to run consistently higher mileage. A healthy runner in his 20s like yourself should have it as a goal to consistently run 80 mile weeks during a marathon build-up. This would require maintaining a base mileage of 60 to 70 throughout the year.

Of course you need to have patience and work up to this over a couple year period. Also making sure to back down during occasional recovery weeks and run on as much grass/trails as possible.

From Wesley Hunt on Wed, May 04, 2011 at 17:07:13 from 198.8.5.35

Thanks, Rob. But I'm not a particularly patient person...

Actually, I was considering my schedule today in order to determine how best to increase base mileage.

You confirmed what my instincts told me was the appropriate and necessary course moving forward.

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