Blog - Josh Spector

Breaking the routine

I’m pretty good with routines. As you should be able to tell from reading my blog, I’m at my best physically and mentally when I have a training plan. It’s rare that I deviate from my plan, or heaven forbid, skip a training session without a really good reason. I don’t get bored of doing…

Fall is for running

Usually, anyway. It was a beautiful, beautiful fall weekend here in NYC. Mostly sunny, comfortable temperatures, cool in the mornings. Perfect running weather. Too bad I’m not really running these days and didn’t run outside at all. Enough of the pity party, I know! It just makes me a little wistful to think about it….

Nuun – they’re watching me!

And it’s a good thing. I got this curious email from Nuun a couple weeks ago: hi there josh, i’ll let you in on a little secret: we’re very nosy. okay, that’s out of the way. so, we saw that you mentioned us the other day on your blog (without us even pestering you to…

Survival of the Shawangunks – Race Report

This report took me a little longer than usual to put together because for the first 48 hours after the race, my head felt like a jumbled mess. It was a stressful week leading up to the race and it took me a while to recover from a hard effort at the race. (I exercised…

I Survived!

I did it. And it was pain free. It was an amazing, fun day and I’ll write up my traditional (read: long) race report in the coming days. Quickly though, that race is crazy hard. It’s not at all like any other triathlon I’ve ever done. And I’d go back and do it again in…

Survival of the Shawangunks (S.O.S.)

It’s not how I planned it would be. I thought that I would come out of Lake Placid, take a few weeks “off” and then get back into it in time to ramp up for S.O.S. and then transition into training for the JFK50. Instead, I’m limping (figuratively, of course) into S.O.S. and nearly certain…

Monthly Summary – August 2008

Here’s August 2008: Swim: 21,325 yardsCycling (outdoors): 194.3 milesCycling (indoors): 1:50 (hours)Run: 45.23 milesStrength Training/Yoga: 5 sessions Approximate monthly total training/racing time: 28.25 hours Weight: 164.5 pounds (totally happy with that weight) A fairly steady month. Just like in 2007, recovering from the Ironman took a little longer than I’d expected. This year, I feel…

Shit. Change of Plans.

Yep. I’m back in. Ironman Canada. Penticton, British Columbia, Canada. August 30, 2009. Spur of the moment act? Sort of. Reasoned decision? Sort of. Either way, I’m officially registered. Background: Historically, unless you’re on site on race day, it’s been impossible to get into Ironman Canada. I think that in some years, being on-site wasn’t…

ART

I’ve officially given up on PT again. It’s a pain in my ass and I don’t really believe that they do anything beneficial that I can’t do myself. I’m disciplined enough to do the strength training, stretching and trigger point massage on my own and I’m not convinced that the ultrasound or E-stim actually help….

Trying to prolong the lazy days of summer

Regular readers probably know what an extended absence from new posts means. It means that all is not right in the world of Josh. And all is not right right now. I swear I’m going to try to not bitch and moan very much, but I hate hate hate not being able to run. Some…