Wesley Hunt

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Member Since:

Oct 19, 2010

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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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Mon, Jan 23, 2012

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
10.00	0.00	0.00	1.00	11.00

I want to share an "In the news" brief from the Arkansas Democrat Gazette:

David Doty, superintendent of the Canyons School DIstrict in suburban Salt Lake City, said the district decided against using "Cougars" as a mascot for a new high school in part because some see the word cougar as carrying a "negative double entendre."

To my SLC friends and fellow bloggers...Seriously???

As to my running, today's workout include 8 Miles in 1:01:30 with my coworker, Dave, along the North Little Rock River Trail, and 3 Miles on the treadmill--including 4X.25 Mile Repeats at 5K pace--after returning from the outdoor portion of the run.

Wesley

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

Comments

From ACorn on Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 18:03:15 from 68.66.168.22

I attended the University of Utah and never did care for the cougars.

From Rob Murphy on Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 19:49:52 from 205.127.70.66

Dude, that's my school district and I'll probably be teaching at that school in two years. Lay off OK.

From Wesley Hunt on Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 06:39:20 from 99.25.245.254

Ya'll are just lucky the "cougar" story was picked up from the AP Wire rather than being written by a local, Arkansas writer. The opportunities are endless. For example, consider the following rewrite:

"David Doty, superintendent of the Canyons School DIstrict in suburban Salt Lake City, said the district decided against using "Cougars" as a mascot for a new high school because round here, that's a dirty word--it means someone's callin' your Grandma pretty and that Granny likes it."

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