Blog - Josh Spector

The North Face Endurance Challenge – Race Report

(photo by Brett Rivers) It normally doesn’t take me this long to write up a race report. But this hasn’t been a “normal” week. In between finishing The North Face Endurance Challenge 50 mile race last Saturday afternoon and getting home last night, I slept in six different beds in five different cities in three…

North Face Endurance Challenge – Pre-Race

Bright and early tomorrow morning, I’m gonna show up at Fort Barry in the Marin Headlands ready to run the North Face Endurance Challenge 50 mile race. The race starts at 5AM (I did say “early”!) and I’ll hopefully be done sometime early/mid-afternoon. There is some sort of live tracking, but none of the emails…

Monthly Summary – November 2011

Here’s November: Swim: 5,100 metersCycling (outdoors): 0 milesCycling (indoors): 1:30 (hours)Run: 181.5 milesStrength Training/Yoga: 5 sessions Approximate monthly total training/racing time: 35 hours Weight: ?? My training volume was down a little this month, but between tapering for the Catalina Eco Marathon, traveling to NY for Thanksgiving and now tapering for my final race of…

Brooks PureProject Pure Connect – More Thoughts

In early October, I got my pair of Brooks PureConnect. I took them right out for a six mile run and posted my initial thoughts. Overall, I thought they were OK, but I wasn’t totally sold. I liked the way they looked, the 4mm heel-to-toe drop and the way they fit my funny shaped feet….

Catalina Eco Marathon – Race Report

I had a fantastic time on Catalina last weekend. And that’s not only because I finished THIRD OVERALL at the marathon. In fact, it’s not even mostly because of that. It would have been a fun weekend even if I’d come in dead last (although the marathon wouldn’t have been as much fun!). It was…

Catalina Eco Marathon – results

Post race photo with Colleen, Kristin, Colin, Rod and me, with our awards. Courtesy of Colin. Full race report will be written and posted at some point soon-ish, but for now, here’s the results: THIRD OVERALL! Yes, that’s third overall. Time: 3:15:15Overall: 3/195 The course got re-routed at the last minute because it poured…

Taper Thoughts

Here’s what I’m thinking about with the start of the Catalina Eco Marathon less than 72 hours away. 1. I’m very excited to do this race, after signing up and being forced to bail in both 2009 and 2010. Over two years of anticipation, I’m hoping for a fun day out there! This will be…

Monthly Summary – October 2011

Here’s October: Swim: 7,500 metersCycling (outdoors): 0 milesCycling (indoors): 2:00 (hours)Run: 216.3 milesStrength Training/Yoga: 6 sessions Approximate monthly total training time: 44.75 hours Weight: mid-150’s This month has been almost exclusively about running. Lots of running. My biggest running month since last summer. And, for the most part, it’s felt great. Little aches and pains…

Training Update

In late September when I decided that I was going to spend the next seven weeks running and running and running to prepare for the Catalina Eco Marathon on November 12, I was a little worried. I felt good coming off a decent run at the SOS Triathlon, but I also knew that seven weeks…

If you want something badly enough…

When the K-Swiss people at the Malibu Triathlon told me that unless I went to Kona, there was no possible way to get my hands on a pair of the new K-Swiss K-Ruuz 1.5s until February 2012, I first got angry but then put a plan in action, and voila: And these aren’t even ready…