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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
Wed, Jun 02, 2010
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.160.004.16

What a day makes!  Temps were a little lower and humidity only about 65%.  Same run as yesterday.  I thought it would be a better run, but I was burning out after about 3mi.  :-(  Quite sad indeed.

It was great to get out with everything on the mind today, but I wish I could have at least matched yesterday's performance.  I was running against my ghost on the Garmin, but after he got out in front of me about 300' at the 2mi mark, I decided to just cheer him on and let him go.  He's such a great runner!  :-)

NB 758s #1 Miles: 4.16
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Lily on Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 17:00:01 from 67.199.181.73

Hi! I think you need to hop on over to my blog and check out the pic then the commentary Burt wrote about you :)

Just tryin my best to start a way is all haha

From Steve on Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 21:25:00 from 71.245.44.209

Your story about the ghost reminds me of being a kid and playing baseball with 'ghosties' when there were not enough people to play.

Don't worry about the run, if you had a lot on your mind that will do it and I find that I have a slower day the second day when I run the same run two days in a row.

From baldnspicy on Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 09:59:28 from 167.164.3.140

Thanks Lily! Just for that, I'm going to add you to my favorite blogs! I know, the list is long but distinguished. 10 points for whomever can name that movie. :-)

Steve - Totally remember those ghosties! Those were awesome. They could run like the wind too. I'm going to do a different route today. It's just nice to run by the river and not have to worry about traffic and stopping all the time. But, the river route is flat and I need to get in some hills every so often too.

From KP on Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 10:22:07 from 65.208.22.26

I believe that would be the Gladiator.

From rAtTLeTrAp on Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 10:50:50 from 72.102.134.44

I only tried running with that little garmin dude once when I first got my watch. I set him to run my goal time and he just runs a dead even pace up hills or whatever. I couldn't stand it. I hated that little guy. Now I would probably do better. I've never tried having him dupplicate one of my previous runs. Maybe I should try that.

Good job getting in some miles. My run plans were foiled yesterday :(

From Burt on Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 13:49:42 from 206.19.214.144

Tattle-tale Lily!

From Lily on Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 14:47:20 from 67.199.181.73

awwe Burt I still love ya, don't be mad at me for long

From baldnspicy on Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 00:02:42 from 72.95.168.82

KP - nope, not Gladiator.

RT - I figured there was some way to set the guy to run a course at a certain pace and "race" him, but I never figured that out. I just set a run I do to a course if I know I'll do it again, and then I can race him based on my pace when I ran it the first time. It was OK, but it was stressing me out watching him get ahead of me even when I knew I'd probably catch him in the last mile when he (I) slowed down a lot. I don't need that stress. :-) I'm sure you could easily do a straight pace since you already do a consistent pace within about 3 seconds/mi. :-)

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