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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
3.470.003.47

I went to the track to run during my daughter's mutual.  Scouts is out so that means I'm done for the summer too!  We still have camps, but at least the weekly responsibilities are over.  I love scouts, but the weekly preparation can be tough sometimes.

I started to get a twinge of pain in front of my right hip yesterday...maybe a little to the outside, but close to the front.  I'm not sure if this is the IT Band issue I've heard about from others, but it was bothering me some more today, so I took it pretty easy.  Averaged 8:30, so it wasn't too easy, but I hope easy enough.  I got a little pain in my right butt toward the top, but that's not much of a problem.  I gotta get some more core and back strengthening work in for sure.  Tomorrow may be a cross train day.  I'll still run a few miles since I've got my goal of 6 this week.  :-)

Anyways, I did something at work that made me feel like an idiot, which reminded me of this video.  Not the boyfriend part, just the idiot part.  :-)  Enjoy!


NB 758s #1 Miles: 3.47
Weight: 164.00
Comments
From Mattrow on Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 09:16:21 from 192.107.247.6

Hope the hip doesn't cause you problems, injuries are for the birds.

From Steve on Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 21:25:38 from 71.245.44.144

I hope that you you start to feel better. Nice average time on the run. Thanks for sharing this wonderful video, I never saw it before and it was great.

From baldnspicy on Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 22:13:07 from 72.77.107.59

Thanks Matt and Steve. The hip is still a little sore, but it will go away. That's happened to me before. I just need to be easy on it for a couple of days and it will be fine.

From rAtTLeTrAp on Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 23:19:41 from 76.121.76.165

So did you burst out in song at a meeting or something? Come on, don't leave us hangin' like that. Wudja do?

From KP on Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 09:21:35 from 65.208.22.26

hahaha. i love that song! i haven't heard it in years, yet i still know every word to it.

From baldnspicy on Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 23:38:40 from 72.77.124.65

Sorry, haven't had much time to blog this week. OK, here's the story, though it probably won't mean much to anyone.

The short version is that in April we setup a new SharePoint environment for our department. I worked on it a little back then with very little training, just figuring it out as I went, reading blogs, etc. since as a corporation, we have cut back all training, travel, etc. Normally, I don't mind learning this way, but that's where the problem began.

One best practice I had read about was creating your own content types which have to be based off a root type which is typically "Item" which only has a single column of data called "Title." Well, because we setup the site collection with myself and two others as owners, we are able to do anything to it...even mess it up. So, back then I created a couple of content types but I didn't want "Title," I wanted "Vendor Name" instead. So I changed it. Well, what I didn't realize is that I was changing the base Item's "Title." When I changed that, I changed it for everything.

After a week or so of working on the site, I was pulled off on something else. The other two people continued to work on the sites, but wouldn't have realized my mistake. When I came back to it, I was working on a different area and didn't realize my mistake until later. Today, I realized what I had done and talked to my buddy who administers the SharePoint environment. I wasn't sure when I actually made the mistake, so I backed everything up manually that I could so the work the other two did wouldn't be lost. We did a couple of restores over the last two weeks and not until late today did I realize that we'd have to take it back to almost when it was setup!

Fortunately, I was able to put everything the other two had done back together by the next day, but I had to redo a lot of what I had already done. It was a lot faster this time, but it was still a bunch of work. The worst part was that in a couple of days we had to demo this to our VP and so I was under huge stress. It was not a good time.

I will spare you the long, drawn out (more drawn out than this "short" version lol) version unless someone wants to feel more of my pain.

Running is good. :-)

From baldnspicy on Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 23:40:34 from 72.77.124.65

Sorry, KP. Yep, it is hilarious! :-)

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