Education
Syracuse University.
Syracuse University.
Roes was raised in Cleveland, New York and excelled in track and cross country at Paul V. Moore High School in Central Square, New New York He competed in cross-country at Syracuse University for one year before becoming injured. In 2007, he set a course record in the process of winning the Susitna 100 miler. Roes set the still-standing course record for the Wasatch 100 (a 100-mile race along the Wasatch Front range of the Rocky Mountains near Salt Lake City, Utah) in 2009 with a time of 18:30:55, beating the previous course record by nearly one hour and five minutes.
Roes now resides in Juneau, Alaska.