Blog - Josh Spector

Monthly Summary – January

Here’s January: Swim: 25,950 yardsCycling (outdoors): 161.4 milesCycling (indoors): 12:40 (hours)Run: 72.92 milesStrength Training/Yoga: 8 sessions Approximate monthly total training/racing time: 47.5 hours Weight: 167 pounds. If I forget about what’s going on with my back, the month was a good one. A relatiely high volume of training and I had some solid sessions. I…

Ho hum

It’s probably obvious to anyone reading this blog, but I’ve been having a hard time getting into it this year. I’m just not as excited to train and I don’t have that same energy for triathlon in general that I think I had at this time last year. Honestly, I’m even having a hard time…

Brrr!

Last week I wrote “I can deal with the cold.” Silly me. I guess Mother Nature took that as something of a dare. This morning I was scheduled to ride for three hours. The forecast called for a cold, but dry morning. Temperatures in the low 30’s with a “real feel” in the mid-20’s. I…

Back to Base (Training, that is)

It’s a sorta strange feeling, getting back on the bike for weekly long rides and thinking once again about the Ironman in July. It’s still over six months away, but I know how quickly that time is going to fly by and before I know it, it will be race day once again. So far,…

Playing hooky – And so worth it!

I tried really hard to get out of bed this morning and go for my scheduled run. But it was warm in bed and looked grey outside. And I was feeling tired. So I rolled over, went back to sleep for an hour and figured I’d go for a run during lunch. See, normally, I…

Annual Summary/New Year’s Eve Midnight Run

2008 is a week old now. And it’s gotten off to a good start. We actually started 2008 with a run – the four mile Midnight Run in Central Park. We weren’t sure what to expect, but it was a blast! It was a cold night with temperatures in the low 30’s, but it was…

Monthly Summary – December

Here’s December: Swim: 20,000 yardsCycling (outdoors): 0 milesCycling (indoors): 8:07 (hours)Run: 51.55 milesStrength Training/Yoga: 9 sessions Approximate monthly total training/racing time: 28.5 hours Weight: 170 pounds. A slight increase from last month. The increase could be due to any number of factors, including the amount of food I ate during our vacation. More optimistically thinking,…

Headed home…

They say that all good things must come to an end. I’m trying hard to keep that in mind as our California vacation does just that. We came down to San Diego on Wednesday and have spent the last four days doing what we do best while on vacation… not doing much of anything! (The…

The sun’s just hotter over here

It’s Monday afternoon and I’m sitting by the pool, trying to shade my eyes enough to see the laptop screen. Charlie’s asleep on the ground next to me – he goes back and forth between the sun and the shade every few minutes. It’s in the mid-70’s and there isn’t a single cloud in the…

California bound

Training continues. And it continues to go well. Tomorrow morning (if you call 4:30am morning…), we’re headed off to California for a week of family, fun and hopefully sun. I won’t be able to spend any time on the bike while we’re away, so I was on the bike the last four days in a…