Blog - Josh Spector

Monday, September 20, 2010. Confirmed.

That’s the day. I’ll be taking a little break from all “this” in order to get this removed: In case you don’t have the background, click here and probably read the posts from the bottom up. I’m sure I’ll have more to say when it gets closer, but for now, I’ve got bigger things to…

Working the Trails!

In April I went out to the El Prieto Trail (the last four miles of the race) to do my required AC100 trail maintenance. I had a great time out there that day – I got to meet a whole bunch of accomplished ultrarunners and had fun actually spending a day doing manual labor. The…

Mt. Disappointment 50k

4:57:10.92 4th overall Let me start by putting it right out there: I loved this race. Running well and finishing 4th overall obviously contribute to that feeling, but I would have felt that way even if I hadn’t had such a good day. Why is it such a great race? It’s a tough, but fair…

4:57:XX

Good enough for 4th overall. The three guys ahead of me were also in the 30-39 age group, but they didn’t give the first overall guy an age group award. Worked for me! The race was great. A ton of fun, super well organized. Tough course but not torturous. Full report to come soon.

Mt. Disappointment 50k – Pre-“race” plan

I put “race” in quotation marks because Mt. Disappointment really really REALLY should not be a “race” for me. It has to be a training run. Yeah, yeah, I said that in the days before Bishop too and I meant it then. But I mean it even more this time. With AC100 just three weeks away,…

Who said this was a good idea?

(elevation profile of 2010 Mt. Disappointment 50k) I’m definitely gonna be psyched when I get to Westfork the second time and am staring up that hill to the finish. More to come later this week, with pre-race thoughts and race plan.

Good to Go!

Excerpts rom the latest AC100 update we received from Hal, the co-race director: Lots of trail work has been done by our So Cal AC100 Trail Volunteers opening up fire and water damaged canyon trails like El Prieto and Silver Moccasin trails and PCT out of 3 Points. The old Curve fire, still falling down…

Monthly Summary – July 2010

Here’s July 2010: Swim: 1,640 yardsCycling (outdoors): 0.0 milesCycling (indoors): 1:20 (hours)Run: 373.80 milesStrength Training/Yoga: 3 session Approximate monthly total training/racing time: 81.25 hours Did I really run 373 miles this month? I double and triple checked it, and yes, I did. When I ran 308 miles in June, I mostly figured that I wouldn’t…

Home from NYC…

and ready to hit the trails! I had a nice week in the City – I got a fair amount of work done, saw some close friends, managed three good runs and didn’t melt in the suffocating heat and humidity. I’ll be the first to admit that living in LA has made me soft, but…

Badwater 2010 – Part 2

Last week I posted the first part of my Badwater crewing/pacing recap here. It’s been a bit of a struggle for me to put the race into words. On the one hand, I could probably write about it forever. Bore everyone to death. And still not really do it justice. Anyway… I left off the…