Blog - Josh Spector

And with that…

I’ve done pretty much all I can. San Diego 100 is in less than three weeks (18 days to be exact) and I’m at that point in race preparation where more training is very unlikely to produce better results. In other words, it’s time for me to start my taper. After a few weeks of…

Shoe Review: Skechers GOBionic Trail

Back in late March, the kind folks at Skechers sent me a new trail shoe to test – the GOBionic Trail. I’d heard about the shoe from someone who was at Outdoor Retailer last fall and was anxious to try them out. The shoe wasn’t on the market yet, but development was done. They weren’t asking…

Mt Wilson

For a while there earlier in the year, I was spending at least one day each weekend out in the San Gabriels or Angeles National Forest. Then, because of travel or other weekend commitments, I didn’t get out there for a about six weeks. Yesterday, though, Elan, Guillaume and I left LA at the crack of…

Product Review – Nuun All Day

This one will be quick. I’ve been a big fan of Nuun for years. They were one of the first companies to send me free product as a result of something I wrote on my blog (a very brief mention in this case). Since I started taking endurance sports somewhat seriously, I’ve used it consistently as…

Monthly Summary – April 2013

April was a strange month. And I didn’t accomplish my training goals. I underestimated the toll that the Backbone run took on my body. I knew that I would need time to recover and I think I gave myself some time for that. After just a couple days of gimping around, the acute soreness was gone,…

yesterday

There’s very little I can say about what happened yesterday afternoon at the Boston Marathon that hasn’t already been said by many, many, many people much more eloquent and articulate than me. I hate that what should be one of the year’s best days in Boston was marred by this madness; I can’t look at the photo…

Coyote Backbone Trail Ultra – Race Report

The weekend before last I participated in the Coyote Backbone Trail Ultra. A 68 mile “fun run” from point-to-point along the Backbone Trail. (In this pre-run blog post I wrote a little information about the trail itself.) As the race director stressed many many times in the months leading up to the event and on…

Kiefer Ergo Hand Paddles – Product Review

Despite the fact that I have no interest in racing any triathlons anytime soon and it’s even less likely that I’ll start swim racing, I have been spending a fair amount of time in the water recently. During each of the last six months (since finishing the Bear in late September), I have swam nearly…

Uh oh… Run Rabbit Run 100!

In a fit of delirium on Sunday, I added a race to my 2013 racing plans: The Run Rabbit Run 100 on September 13th/14th in Steamboat Springs Colorado. Here’s a link to the course elevation profile. Looking at the profile reminds me of how The Bear race director described that course: “it’s only five climbs!” I…

Monthly Summary – March 2013

(photo: Gary Wang) March was really all about one thing – the Coyote Backbone Trail Ultra. I finished the “race” almost exactly 12 hours and I’m hurting pretty badly right now. Calves, quads, back, feet, shoulders, stomach and head. I’m not sure what isn’t hurting! The above picture was around mile 17 of the…