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Location:

Bliss,ID,USA

Member Since:

Jan 04, 2010

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Recover From Injury

Running Accomplishments:

In late 2008 I decided I needed to get in better shape and started running again.  I ran my first formal road race ever, a half marathon, in late 2009.

(unofficial) Track 1 Mile - 7:32 (4/24/2010)  6:56 (9/27/2010)

5k - 27:31 - Riverview Run on 06/11/2010
22:39 - Gatorade Steelers 5k on 09/04/2010

10k - 50:43 - Riverside Run on 04/10/2010

Half - 2:02:58 - Just a Short Run on 03/27/2010
1:51:47 - IKEA Montour Trail Half on 09/11/2010

Short-Term Running Goals:

2011 Races:

Sept 25 - The Great Race 10k (59:15)
Nov 5 - Dirt Monster 5mi (52:59)

2012 Races:

June 8 - Riverside 5k  (27:49)
Sept 2 - Gatorade Steelers 5k (route) with Steve!  (27:39)
Sept 30 - The Great Race 10k (route)  (53:48)
Nov 3 - The Dirt Monster 5mi (52:55)

2013 Races:

May - Pittsburgh Marathon (started, but DNF about the half way point)
June - Riverview 5k  - Bummed I missed signing up for this one. It's one of my favorites!
Sept - Gatorade/Steelers 5k. (Signed up!)
Sept - IKEA Montour Trail Half  (prob not, but leaving it on here)
Sept - The Great Race 10k (My Running 101 goal race)
Nov - Dirt Monster 5mi (Gotta do it again no matter what!)

Long-Term Running Goals:

Finish recovering from my injuries and build mileage.  That is all.

Personal:

My name is Wes, I'm married with two wonderful children. The nickname BaldNSpicy came from the fact that I have been balding for a (long) while now and spicy for my love of very spicy foods (Thai and extremely hot wings are my favorites).  If eating doesn't bring me near tears and leave me sweating, it's not worth eating.  :-)

Oh, and I'm also known for my doorags.

Favorite Quotes:

"Running without hills is like motorcycling without corners." - rAtTLeTrAp

"Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit.  You are what you do repeatedly." - Shaquille O'Neal

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."  - John Burroughs

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
NB 758s #2 Lifetime Miles: 596.90
Brooks Cascadia 7 Lifetime Miles: 165.17
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.600.006.60

Beautiful 47o, sunny and perfect!

I had a nice 5mi route planned out but then ran into some construction that made me detour which also put me onto a street didn't allow me to get onto the bridge to make my loop to come back, so I was stuck having to just turn around.  No biggie, I thought, but I had already gone a little over 3mi out (didn't know till I mapped it), so that made it longer than I had planned on.  It turned out to be a faster pace than I had expected too (9:40).  It was a great day in the neighborhood, but the knee is a little sore still.  I'm going to ice it and take some motrin.  Then tomorrow will be just a short, slow 3mi with some weight training.

NB 758s #1 Miles: 6.60
Weight: 170.00
Comments
From Steve on Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 18:56:20 from 141.158.128.206

Sounds like you had a nice run today for weather but not so great for construction. Sunny warmer days always make me pick up the pace a little too in the spring and afterwards you just feel better too.

When I finally got out of work it had to be in the mid-50's. The only problem was that the sun started to set, but it was beautiful.

From RivertonPaul on Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 13:03:13 from 67.42.27.114

Keep it up.

From Kelli on Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 15:01:16 from 71.219.89.82

Longer and FASTER, that is a good running day!

From baldnspicy on Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 23:11:10 from 72.95.173.26

Thanks guys! Tomorrow is rain, so I had to get in a couple of nice spring-ish days!

Kelli - you crack me up...ok, new rule. If you're going to post on BaldNSpicy's blog, you have to put "fast," "faster," but especially "fastest" in quotes! If it's not in quotes I'm not reading it. ;-)

It's like when I post on your blog about "sleep" or talk about my own "sleep." See how I did that? Sorry for imposing the two extra character rule, but it had to be done!

From Kelli on Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 19:01:28 from 71.219.89.82

I am not sure my "tired" brain can handle the extra work!

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