Wesley Hunt

Chicago Marathon

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Member Since:

Oct 19, 2010

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

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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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
31.7818.220.000.0050.00
Night Sleep Time: 27.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 27.50
Race: Chicago Marathon (26.22 Miles) 03:14:26, Place overall: 2225, Place in age division: 402
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.7818.220.000.0030.00

Well, it was a beautiful morning in Chicago. As part of a long weekend visit with Diana's family, I marked another bucket list race off my list, despite running the Arkansas Traveller 100 Miler last weekend and logging exactly 0 Miles over the last 7 days!
 
I ran 3:14:26, good for 2,225 place overall, 1,958th male, and 402nd in my way too fast division.
 
I actually ran through the half at 1:29:38, hanging on for dear life to the pace group leader for as long as possible. However, finishing with him was not realistic.
 
At Mile 16, after running 6:50/mile with the pace group, I backed it way down and ran Miles 17-24 at 9:00/mile (still much faster than my CR AT100 pace!), which was necessary if I was going to finish without walking, cramping up, or worse.
 
I found a second wind and ran Miles 25-26.22 at sub-7:00 pace. Pretty proud of this because I could have packed it in and ran 3:20 or 3:30, which was my goal going in.
 
In the end, I'm glad I made the decision to go ahead and run today. Chicago is an amazing city, and we had a blast hanging out in Chinatown after the race.
 
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
6.000.000.000.006.00

6 Miles in 46:50 on TM.

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
6.000.000.000.006.00

4 Miles in 31 mins on TM and 2 Miles walking.

6 Total Miles. 

Wesley

Night Sleep Time: 6.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.50
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

7 Miles in 56 mins on TM.

8 Total Miles including 1 Mile walking.

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
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Night Sleep Time: 27.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 27.50
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