Blog - Josh Spector

More AC 100

(photo from examiner.com) In yesterday’s report of the AC100 trailwork, I meant to go into a little more detail about the chances that the race is actually going to happen this year and why it might not. In case you don’t know, the race was cancelled last year after wild fires absolutely ravaged the Angeles…

AC100 Trail Maintenance Day

One of the requirements for all runners participating in the Angeles Crest 100 is to spend one eight hour day doing trail maintenance work. If you live south of Fresno, you have to do the trail work on the AC100 course during one of their organized trail work days. If you live somewhere else, you…

Desert Running

My goal for last weekend was to run 40 miles – 20 on Saturday and 20 on Sunday. I ended up with more like 36 (19 and 17). Is it OK for me to say “only 36“?* Elizabeth and I decided to take a little mini-vacation to the desert for the weekend. Coachella was going…

Bishop, Here I Come!

For some reason I had a really difficult time pulling the trigger on this race. I’ve known all along that I want to do a 50 miler this spring/early summer, I knew there were no others anywhere within driving distance that I could do and I’d heard good things about this race. Every day for…

Weekend Running

A relatively big week of running (55 miles), capped off by two fantastic weekend runs with friends. Saturday, I was up before 4am to meet Jimmy and Lukas for a 14 mile run on the Malibu Creek trail race course. The race is in a few weeks and Jimmy was leading a group training run…

My back – MRI images

This morning I got to go on a run with a couple old friends. Assaf and Jay flew into town last night and stayed at our place. They’re headed down the coast for a surfing weekend. But before they took off, we went on an easy run around the neighborhood. Unfortunately, we didn’t have time…

Sycamore Canyon 30k (Full Race Report)

Three races in three weekends. No tapering, not much time for rest. Going into Sunday’s Sycamore Canyon 30k, I wasn’t sure what to expect. My races at the L.A. Marathon and Oceanside 70.3 had gone fine and I felt like I’d recovered well from both, but I hadn’t tested my speed in either of those…

Sycamore Canyon 30k

2:38 2nd overall! 2nd in age group. The winner was so far ahead of me (~23 minutes) that I never saw him the entire race and I actually thought I’d won! I felt great, ran hard without killing myself and am really pleased with the result. Full race report to come soon.

Professional Event Photos

I almost never order the professional photos from my races. Spending $15+ for a 5×7 is pretty insane to me. I ordered them from my first two Ironmans, but the first time, well that was my first Ironman and the second time around, they took a few good ones – those are in this blog…

Monthly Summary – March 2010

Here’s March: Swim: 10,268 yardsCycling (outdoors): 98.2 milesCycling (indoors): 3:10 (hours)Run: 153.7 milesStrength Training/Yoga: 4 sessions Approximate monthly total training/racing time: 36.75 hours Weight: still no scale… whatever. I’m going to spare you all anything too detailed this month. If you’ve been following along, you know that I’ve been steadily increasing my run volume and…