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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Sun, Jul 24, 2016
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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11 Miles on a relatively nice morning in Troy Michigan; 8X200m striders at local high school track during Miles 4 and 5.

12 Total Miles including one-mile walk to park.

Wesley

Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
Comments
From Jason D on Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 19:15:58 from 68.80.27.222

Do you have any running recommendations for that part of Michigan? Trails, parks, etc.

From Wesley Hunt on Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 20:16:13 from 72.168.144.143

The Clinton River Trail (mostly paved or packed limestone) is pleasant if you're in the northern suburbs of Detroit.

http://www.clintonrivertrail.org/phone/index.html

On a previous trip, my wife's cousin introduced me to some pretty twisty and technical rolling mountain bike trail loops at the Highland State Recreation Area, which is 45 mins or so northwest of Detroit.

Good luck at the half in October.

Wesley

From Jason D on Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 23:03:10 from 68.80.27.222

My wife and I are moving to Shelby Township (Rochester/Rochester Hills area just north of Troy) this week. I found the Clinton River Trail, which looks great assuming I can access it safely from where we are. I'll check out Highland State. I'm in need of some hills as I live on the outer edge of Philadelphia and it's quite hilly and has some rocky, hilly, technical trails. Thanks, Wesley.

From Wesley Hunt on Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 15:17:07 from 70.215.133.98

Good luck with the move, Jason. My mountain-biking cousin also mentioned Pontiac as an area with good trails and said the following was a good resource:

http://mmba.org/trail-guide/

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