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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
Fri, May 11, 2012
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.260.004.26

Goals for this run continued to change as I ran.  I started out thinking I'd run 4mi easy and just get away from the desk.  After a few minutes, I was feeling pretty good and decided to see what my 5k time was as a benchmark, just running it pretty easy with no walking.  This is a pretty flat 5k route, so it's not even close to the hilly 5k route the Riverview race will be, but it would give me an idea.

Turn around point was 18:55 @ 2.13 and I considered seeing if I could negative split, but that wasn't really my goal so I focused on the 5k mark.  5k split was 27:25 (8:50 AP) with a little push at end, but wasn't drained.  Thought I might walk for a min at 5k, but goal then changed to just run the whole thing. The whole run was very consistent pace wise, which surprised me with the wind gusts that came and went - a few that almost blew me over.  Finished at 37:32, so the bit of a negative split was icing on the Twinkie.

Riverview 5k in a month...I don't think a PR is in the cards for the course, but a sub-30 would be OK with me.  The hills - both up and down - will be tough on me, but I'm looking forward to getting a race in.

NB 758s #2 Miles: 4.26
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From SlowJoe on Thu, May 10, 2012 at 15:45:58 from 69.131.141.92

sub 30? don't sell yourself short, you will do a lot better than that, hills or not, especially with a month to go. Good miles today.

From baldnspicy on Thu, May 10, 2012 at 23:51:38 from 141.0.11.22

I knew one of my buddies would tell me I'd nail at sub 30, I just wondered which would say it. :-). Thanks Joe. I'd like to be closer to 27 or 28 but I've got to get my hill work in before then. I'll run the course at least once before the race to see how I do on the hills.

Thanks for the never ending supply of positve support! I appreciate it!

From rAtTLeTrAp on Fri, May 11, 2012 at 20:18:43 from 174.253.194.192

I bet you'll do it in 27 and change on the test run.

From flatlander on Sat, May 12, 2012 at 05:27:42 from 76.31.26.153

26:45

From baldnspicy on Sat, May 12, 2012 at 21:54:23 from 72.77.104.6

Trap, I will let you know this next week.

Flat, you're an optimistic young man! ;-) That would be a course record for me, but we shall see. I'm not ruling anything out at this point.

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