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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
4.230.004.23

Yawn...finally dragged myself out of bed after last night.  I weighed myself after the shower and I account the weight gain to the amount of water my hair was holding since I hadn't dried it yet.  I can't think of any other reason for it.  Looks like I'll need to do a double today to make up for last night.  Oh well, it was worth it!

Update - Whew, just finished my run.  Did close to the same route as Wednesday.  Had to adjust the start location since my Garmin wasn't picking up the signal at the gym.  Anyways, it felt great to run even though I thought I was going to chuck a couple of times today and as I was heading down to the gym, it was bad.  I had a nice run in the sun. 

Splits:  8:10, 8:01 (stopped and rested for 30 sec due to high HR), 8:13, (walked for 1 min here) 8:54.

Pretty fast splits for me, especially since I wasn't feeling that great.  Legs are a little tired after the run so I think I may not do a double today. Instead I may just hit the bike for 45 mins or so this evening.

NB 758s #2 Miles: 4.23
Weight: 168.50
Comments
From Metcalf Running on Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:34:53 from 207.225.192.66

LOL I"m sure that burger in the picture had nothing to do with it ;)

I think I would pewk it I eat that!

From baldnspicy on Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 17:18:07 from 167.164.3.140

No way, Metcalf. If you like burgers, you would have loved this thing. Done just perfectly (Medium), lots of cheese, bacon, etc. It's a good thing I have been running or I probably would have gone into cardiac arrest! I run, therefore I can eat like that once in a while. :-)

From Coach Cara on Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 21:13:11 from 74.107.148.31

The weight gain is all muscle!

(that's what I always say to myself)

From Kelli on Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 00:18:44 from 71.219.75.178

Very nice splits indeed.

Let's just make a pact and throw away the dang scale!

From baldnspicy on Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 08:17:19 from 72.95.170.250

Muscle it is, Cara. I'm freakin ripped!

Kelli - you're on! I'm going to stop posting my weight. Maybe I'll just post my weight one day per week. :-)

From Kelli on Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:31:53 from 71.219.75.178

I am going back to the one day a week----THURSDAY. That gives me time each week to lose the weekend fat.

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