Blog - Josh Spector

Monthly Summary – August

Here’s August: Swim: 13,450 yardsCycling (outdoors): 22.6 milesCycling (indoors): 3:15 (hours)Run: 80 milesStrength Training/Yoga: 4 sessions Approximate monthly total training/racing time: 23:45 (hours) Weight: 165.0 pounds. Same as last month. I think this is a good, stable weight for me. It’s been a strange month. Lots of recovery time and then some struggles to get…

ugh.

I woke up this morning and it felt like I’d slept funny on my left hip. Unfortunately, I knew that sleeping strangely wasn’t the cause. Shoot. I should have totally seen this coming. First it was my low back, then my foot, then my hip. I’m sure that during one or more of last week’s…

Living

In an effort to reclaim something of a “normal” life, I’ve had a busy week. Monday was a birthday party (though I didn’t drink), Tuesday I helped a friend with her fantasy football draft, Wednesday night I went to a ball game (and got to see the Padres beat the Mets in a good one)…

2007 Season – Part 2

The second half of my 2007 season has now started in earnest. I’m still working toward some pretty lofty goals and it will all culminate with a big race, but there will be some important differences between the first half of 2007 and this coming second half. I had a long call with Coach John…

Restarting

This is the fourth week since the race and the first week that I’ve had any structured or “tough” workouts. As you can see from my monthly totals in the sidebar, it’s been a really low volume month, definitely the lowest since, well, since I don’t even know when. I mean, maybe since spring 2006,…

Alaska and Seattle

First, some photos from the first few days of the cruise. Elizabeth and I got up at an ungodly hour on Monday and went outside just after the sun had come up. The scenery was beautiful and we got to see some whales. Early morning on the deck: The glacier at Endicott Arm: In front…

Alaska – Day 3

Today is a “sea day” – we’re somewhere in between Endicott Arm and Tracy Arm (two Alaskan fjords) sailing through fields of icebergs. It’s beautiful scenery. Many of the floating icebergs are this shimmering bright blue. The other colors are the deep green water, the green, tree-covered mountains on either side of the ship, white…

The rest of this season

Earlier this year I wondered if maybe it would be better to do a late season Ironman and have all summer to train. Right now, I’m thinking that July is just right – I never really took a break after running the marathon last November, but my Ironman training didn’t kick into high gear until…

Monthly summary – July

Here’s July: Swim: 27,510 yardsCycling (outdoors): 285.30 milesCycling (indoors): 3:25 (hours)Run: 60.45 milesStrength Training: 1 session Approximate monthly total training/racing time: 39:30 (hours) Weight: 165.0 pounds. Up from last month, down since the Ironman. This is probably about my right weight. Strength Training – July 30 Run – July 31Distance: 3.3 milesTime: 30 minutesAverage heart…

Some Post-race thoughts and observations

1) That was fun! Plain and simple, fun! I mean there were certainly times during both the bike and the run where it was less fun than other times, but all-in-all, that is an unbelievably fun way to spend a day. I don’t see how you can train and then race and not want to…