Wesley Hunt

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Member Since:

Oct 19, 2010

Gender:

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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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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
37.7530.256.002.0076.00
Night Sleep Time: 35.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 35.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
0.008.000.000.008.00

8 Miles in 55:56 on a beautiful afternoon in my Little Rock neighborhood.  

Happy Birthday to my son, Max, who turns 4 today!  Party tonight!

Wesley 

Night Sleep Time: 5.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 5.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.000.000.000.0012.00

6 Easy Miles with Dave at lunch through the streets of South Little Rock, passed the Governor's Mansion and historic Central High School, down to the State Fair Grounds, and back again; upon my return to the gym, I ran 6 Easy Miles on the treadmill for 12 Total Miles. 

Wesley

Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
13.000.000.002.0015.00

Okay, so fellow blogger Rob Murphy's "Bonus VO2 Max" workout that includes incorporating 0.5 Mile Repeats at 5K pace into the latter half of a medium-long run...on a treadmill no less...is pretty freaking tough.  I only managed 4X0.5 Mile Repeats, with half-mile jogs to recover, starting at Mile 9, and I was spent.

Managed to run 3 Easy Miles following the repeats for 15 Total Miles.  With the exception of the two-miles of recovery jogs, and a very slow Mile 13, I ran the remainder of the workout between 7:47 and 7:09, averaging just under 7:30/mile for 10 Aerobic Miles (1-8, 14, and 15). 

Wesley 

Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
0.000.006.000.006.00

Busy day at work today, so workout got pushed back to late afternoon, and I had limited time to knock out a MP/Tempo Pace run--6 Miles in 39:50--not blazing, but solid given the 15 Miles I ran yesterday.  

Wesley 

Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
0.0022.250.000.0022.25

22.25 Miles in 2:34:52 (6:58) on a cool, overcast day in Little Rock.  Ran from the base of Two Rivers Bridge on the Little Rock side of the River Trail, across the Big Damn Bridge onto the North Little Rock side of the River Trail, and followed the trail just past the 11 mile mark at the Junction Bridge that connects to the Clinton Presidential Center and Park in downtown Little Rock; turned around and ran back.  

Recorded 7-Mile Splits for no particular reason:  

Miles 1-7:  7:01/mile

Miles 8-14:  6:55/mile

Miles 15-21:  7:01/mile

Last 1.25:  6:35 pace

Felt very comfortable throughout, which was the plan going into today's run, and other than a couple of gels, I didn't hydrate because several of the water fountains on the River Trail were not working (perhaps they shut them off in the winter?).  This was a slow MP run, but after last week's fast MP run (18.25 at 6:31/mile), this is exactly what I needed. Distance was key today.   

Wesley 

Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.750.000.000.0012.75

am:  8 Easy Miles to recover on a mild and humid morning in my neighborhood.  

pm:  4.75 Miles in 35:00 on a nice afternoon in my neighborhood.  

Total:  12.75 Miles. 

Wesley 

Night Sleep Time: 5.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 5.50
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
37.7530.256.002.0076.00
Night Sleep Time: 35.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 35.50
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