| 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
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| Wonderful day today visiting with my wife's almost 90 year old grandmother. She is an awesome lady, still drives and is still sharp as a whip! We then visited with my uncle, who had picked up my daughter from the airport and delivered her to BYU for us. Great day! | |
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| No miles, but after hiking Timp, we visited with one of my wife's friends from BYU and her family. They had a membership at Lifetime Fitness so we went to the pool there. Annalee convinced me to do an hour water aerobics class. I was the only dude in the class. It was a great workout. This was the first time I've done water aerobics and I was surprised it was such the workout. The instructor was obviously a runner, and probably a darn good one at that, based on her legs. I didn't have the guts to go up and talk to her, but she did say I did really well as I walked by. LOL
She did apologize for her comment though. When we got in the pool, we got in the 5' 6" deep area. It was deeper than it should be for Annalee, so the instructor told her to move down to the 4' 6" deep part. After the first half of the class, she told Annalee that the rest of it would be done using the water weights and so she could go back down to where her boyfriend/husband was. She looked at me and I said, "um....daughter, maybe?" And she turned totally red and apologized. A couple of the other ladies immediately said how they thought she was my girlfriend since she had big sunglasses on and they couldn't tell how old she was. I thought it was a compliment, but I am not sure it was.
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| Lagoon all day today. Had a great time but I'm exhausted... Tomorrow is the "rest" day so I may get to sleep in a little! | |
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Finally got to sleep last night about 1:30am. I woke up to the "Cliff Club" kids making a ton of noise outside our open sliding door. That was better than waking up to the exploding can of flavored seltzer water yesterday morning. I decided to stay up, grab some breakfast and sit out on the deck in the nice cool mountain air reading a book I brought. After an hour or so of just relaxing (loved it!) I debated for about 5 minutes on whether I wanted to go for a run or not. I forgot to mention that during my water aerobics class I got some hamstring and calf cramps and they've been sore since. So I was wondering if I wanted to run or not, but I knew I'd kick myself all the way back to Pittsburgh if I didn't run a Snowbird trail if I skipped out on the only morning I'd have to do it. So I went and it was a wonderful run/walk jog. Beautiful scenery, cool air, and except for the trail nazi that told me I couldn't run the trail below the heavy machinery doing the trail repair 1/2 way up the mountain from there, it was a fun run. The altitude still was killer, but not as bad as the first day or two. I have total respect for you Utah runners! I'll be glad to get back to my 800' elevation so I'll feel like I can run a mile and not die. :-) After running, I enjoyed a nice relaxing stretch on a flat rock overlooking the river. It was a great run! I'll be sad to leave.
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Brother in law and I ran around the base of Devils Tower a couple of times. It was pretty sweet! It was so dark, but I had to run it. Super slow but it was awesome. I didn't run it the next day but we hiked the same trail. Awesome pictures!
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