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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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It's 1:30am here, so I suppose it's ok to post my report for "today" even when I haven't slept yet...  Burt wants to see the rollercoaster pictures, and as we all know, Burt gets what he asks for.  So here they are.  Now realize, my wife grew up in SoCal and practically lived at Disneyland.  She's seen places in Disneyland very few have ever seen - or were ever intended to see, but that's a story for another time.  On the coasters, we wanted to make the scariest faces knowing pictures were going to be taken.  ;-) 

This first one, in 2004, was near the end of the night, the first time my kids had been on it, and it was very dark out.  The kids loved it until the "surprise" drop off into a seemingly black hole (all except for the flash as the pic is taken).  I know it's not obvious, so I feel I need to point out that my daughter was scared. 

 

This one was taken in 2007...daughter is scared into euphoria

And then there's Space Mountain...This was probably the 5th time on it, hence my son's thumbs up.  Daughter claims this is the one we were all supposed to look scared for the picture...

Did I hear someone ask "But what about the Tower of Terror?  Didn't that debut in 2007?"  I'm glad you asked...

Wait...let's get a close up...

Although you can't see my face in this one since I was off camera, I found this one truly frightening...no, seriously!

And as I was perusing through my photos, I didn't realize that my fellow flame-loving blogger, RAtTLeTrAp was there!  I just really liked his hat!


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Comments
From RivertonPaul on Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:00:57 from 67.42.27.114

Nice memories!

From allie on Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:40:40 from 98.202.24.36

these are priceless. pic #1 is the best. it just captures the terror so perfectly. rattletrap has always been a Kool Kat.

From Burt on Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:50:38 from 206.19.214.144

Yeah, the first one is great. You can see the level of terror increase as you go from highest to lowest.

And my wife actually bit my shoulder when we went on the Tower of Terror.

From baldnspicy on Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:27:51 from 72.77.113.184

Yep, great times! Scaring and embarrassing my kids is a skill I've been trying to develop more.

My wife is mortified that I put these up. I call that collateral damage...

From flatlander on Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 19:08:34 from 76.31.26.153

Making teenagers regret they were ever born is one of the few pleasures available to their parents -- plus, it is so easy.

From Kelli on Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 21:36:00 from 71.219.89.82

Yeah, more photo bloggers!!! I hope you went to bed after all of that!

From baldnspicy on Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 09:33:41 from 72.77.113.184

@Flat - I believe it's called one of the Simple Pleasures of life, much like the first bite into a fully loaded Fluffernutter sandwich! :-)

Kelli - you liked the photos, huh? I could never rival Burt's, but I would be more than happy to try... Oh, and yes, went to bed but didn't go to sleep for a couple of hours.

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