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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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No run today, too many things going on.  Finished everything in time to go to Silky's Crow's Nest Restaurant and Marina with my wife to meet up with my wife's favorite professor, Dr. G., and some friends in her Master's program to celebrate the end of the semester (and for my wife and a couple others, their graduation!).  Just so happens that the Pens were playing Ottawa in the 5th game of the series so we had to hang out and watch the game to the end - triple OT!  We lost, so we'll be headed up north for game 6 tomorrow night.  We'll finish them off then.

We love Silky's - it's a bar with a restaurant and their food is excellent.  My wife and I got there first and so we waited for a few minutes before ordering our appetizer - chicken nachos, which come on a huge plate piled super high with stuff - had to ask for more jalapenos since they didn't put enough on it for me.  I gotta have a jalapeno per chip or it's just not happenin'.  So we pounded that.  I got water to be good....and the fact that they've changed their policy and sodas are no longer free refills.  So, I wasn't going to pay $2 per Coke.  Probably a good thing.

Their burgers are awesome.  Normally, I'd get one of their special burgers (my wife always gets a steak), but tonight I decided I needed to go for it all and get the Pittsburgher.  It's a 1 pound burger with just about everything on it. I knew after the nachos that I'd only be able to eat about 1/2 of it, but it's only about $0.50 more than the other burgers so I figured that would be two meals for me.  I did, in fact, only eat about half as planned, but since the game went into OT, I started munching on the wings that Dr. G. had gotten and helped polish off the last 8 or so.  I was pretty full by the time we left around 1am.  Enjoy the pics!

 


Weight: 164.00
Comments
From RivertonPaul on Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 12:00:59 from 67.42.27.114

Awesome burger.

From baldnspicy on Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 17:20:58 from 167.164.3.140

Paul, it WAS awesome! So yummy! I just hope my son hasn't found it in the fridge or it will be gone by the time I get home. Grrr!

From Burt on Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 19:46:19 from 206.19.214.144

Maybe it's just the beauty of the burger, but you look so handsome next to it. I guess, though, anything would.

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