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
I decided to try what Rattletrap does and run super early in the morning. So I ran at 6:30am :-p
My plan has always been to run before work after seminary and the kids are out of school, but today worked out OK. I only get a max of about 60 mins though, so if I need to run longer than about 6 miles for my daily run, I'll have to do it during the day or at night. Once school's out, I'll run in the morning then bike to work and back. That should give me enough exercise for the day and won't impact my work schedule. At least that's the plan, but I'm flexible. :-)
Splits: 10:06, 8:30, 9:50, 8:56
I took it pretty slow because I was sluggish. I don't know what my problem is for the last few days I've felt like this. Running more than 4 miles or so seems to kill me. Maybe it's the music on the iPod? Today, my "Bring it home, mama!" song was Rubberband Man by the Spinners:
It helped, but I think I would have been faster if I had sequins on my doorag and had a rubberband at the end to close the run properly. I didn't have a running group to help me with the choreography either...darn, so many things missing from this run!
NB 758s #2 Miles: 4.03
Weight: 166.00
Comments
From flatlander on Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 09:28:40 from 76.31.26.153
Looks to me like you are doing fine, but sorry for your brutal work schedule. Hopefully it eases up soon. Good song.
From baldnspicy on Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 21:25:14 from 72.95.167.92
Thanks, Flat. The work schedule doesn't look to be easing up and probably won't, but if I can stay busy enough, I might just avoid the layoffs coming later this year. If not, I guess I'll have lots of time for running...
From rAtTLeTrAp on Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 08:36:28 from 76.121.76.165
If you need a better "Bring it on home" song, look no further:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm3zUQjG5no
Nobody brings it home like Led Zeppelin!
I love the harmonica in this tune.
From baldnspicy on Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 17:49:30 from 72.95.167.92
Nice, Trap! I should have explained the "Bring it home, mama" reference. The line is in one of our family's favorite movies, Better Off Dead. When we were at Summersville Lake in WV, there are cliffs there you can jump off of. Our son was scared to jump off of one, so we had him yell "Bring it home, mama" and then jump. We say it any time we have to do something we don't like or is scary for the kids.
Rubberband Man wasn't chosen, it just came up on the iPod as I ended my run. If I need a real rockin' song at the end of a run, I have favorites for those. In this case, it was random, although I love the song so I didn't mind.
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