Blog - Josh Spector

Brooks PureProject Pure Connect – First Look

After months of anticipation, Brooks finally released their PureProject line of shoes on October 1. As a member of the Brooks I.D. program, my pre-ordered pair arrived a couple of days early. But due to my running schedule, I wasn’t able to take them for a test run until today. One six mile run isn’t…

Monthly Summary – September 2011

Here’s September: Swim: 5,004 metersCycling (outdoors): 100.2 milesCycling (indoors): 0:30 (hours)Run: 102.5 milesStrength Training/Yoga: 8 sessions Approximate monthly total training/racing time: 28.75 hours Weight:?? This was a relatively low volume month. Between traveling to New York for two weeks, including an extended taper for SOS, and then recovery from SOS, I spent about half as…

S.O.S. Triathlon (Survival of the Shawangunks) Race Report

It’s unusual for me to wait this long to post a race report. And I definitely don’t have a good excuse. I don’t have very many pictures and am hoping that some official ones will be posted at some point. Summary: I had a fun day at S.O.S. It’s a great event and I’m pretty…

Were you looking for me?

You can find me here (yes, that’s the front page of Franco Bike’s redesigned website): And if you’re too lazy to follow the link, here’s the photo: That picture was taken the same day earlier this summer as this video: Our Backyard from Franco Bicycles on Vimeo. Franco’s doing some pretty cool stuff with bikes and…

14 weeks later

I “graduated” from clavicle surgery this morning. Dr. Modabber looked at the X-ray and pronounced the bone “at least as strong as it was before the crash”. I’ve been feeling – and acting – that way for a bunch of weeks now, but it was still good to hear from the doctor. The spot of…

Welcome home!

After two weeks of traveling, we got home yesterday afternoon. There are a lot of reasons why I’m happy to be home, but these are among the top: Thursday morning Coyote trail run. This week was Los Liones. Tyler and I lollygagged on the way up but pushed a bit towards the top and then…

SOS – Results

The race went really well today. I ended up 2nd in my age group (35-39) and 22nd overall. My time was 3:10:40 (or so). The picture above is from the awards ceremony – from left to right Brian, me and Park, 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the age group, separated by something like 1:30. The…

SOS, here I come?

I’m sitting in the lovely Super 8 New Paltz. The SOS pre-race meeting is done, all my stuff for tomorrow is fairly well laid out and the alarm is set for a 4:30am wake up. In addition to the changes to the run and swim legs I wrote about last Saturday, heavy rains this past…

Vegan Traveler

I made it through my Vegan Challenge and decided that I’m sticking with it. I like the way I feel. I have great energy, feel lean and fit and my athletic performance hasn’t suffered one bit. (We’ll see what I think about suffering next Sunday at SOS, but that’s another story!). To the contrary, August…

SOS update

The new post-Irene course description was posted to the race website today. There will be more detail posted soon, but what I know now is that the race will be:– the same (or very similar) 30 mile bike– a long run– one swim across Mohonk Lake– Then the final uphill run to the usual finish…