Wesley Hunt

You know, I was just pondering your 100 miler last year. That was a pretty incredible bit of sustained focus and motivation for an entire year. Pretty amazing considering you have a job and had a lot of other big things going on in your life.

Any plans for an encore anytime soon?

You know, Rob, I could come at this question from a lot of angles, but I guess I'll start with unfiltered honesty...

I would love to run another 100 (or several over a 3-5 year period) to do what I love most, which is to challenge myself to discover my absolute limitations physically and mentally (mental part is much more interesting). Now, I will be the first to admit that an ultra - or any running event, and particularly a race - is not the only way to push myself in this way. But it's the best way I know how to do so, and it may very well be the thing I love doing most outside of spending time with my family. Family, and the guilt associated with the absence therefrom, is where this gets really hard for me.

On one hand, I feel that I'm doing myself a disservice my not pushing myself to the absolute threshhold by maximizing whatever modest ability I do have. On the other hand, I just want to be with my beautiful wife and kids every single day.

I can never do another 100 unless my family is 100 percent behind me. Absent that, I will look for new ways to challenge myself through running. Perhaps I have a couple more descent marathons in me, and I certainly would enjoy going back to Boston one more time at some point...

Thanks, as always, for forcing me to thoughtfully consider all of this. As rediculous as it sounds, I've actually been struggling with this recently.

I've wrestled with every one of those questions over the years Wesley. Can't say I have the answers except to say that 3 am runs usually avoid family conflicts.