Blog - Josh Spector

Getting caught up

Interesting. Last night when I initially started this post, I titled it “Tired”. And last night I really was. I had been feeling tired for a few days – muscle tired, sleepy tired, just worn out. For the first time in a while I counted how many days it had been since I’d had a…

I was ROBBED!

The Prospect Park Spring Duathlon age group results were posted today and it confirms that I was robbed – my second place in the age group award is nice and all but it should have been a FIRST place award! You can see for yourself here. I took it upon myself to give myself the…

CityTri Prospect Park Spring Duathlon

I think this is the longest I’ve gone without posting since I starting this blog. I’ve gotten away from feeling compelled to post everyday. I did plan on writing yesterday, but I had this stupid cold over the weekend and frankly, after running some errands and an afternoon nap, the day just slipped away from…

And now it’s FOUR MONTHS to go

Today marks four months until race day. If I could actually get that timer in the sidebar to work it would say that I have 122 days to go. That’s a ton of time, right? I definitely don’t want to jinx anything, but I’m feeling pretty good right now and on track with my training….

The Rollercoaster

This morning, during my walk to work after a pretty good ride on the trainer, I couldn’t stop questioning this process and what I’m doing. I spent that time (and parts of my day since) asking myself what it’s all about and what I’m doing it all for. Some of this comes out of my…

“Running on the Sun” – Badwater Ultramarathon

I just finished watching “Running on the Sun”, a documentary about the 1999 Badwater Ultramarathon. The Badwater Ultramarathon is a 135 mile ultramarathon that begins at Badwater, Death Valley (at -280 feet below sea level, the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere) and finishes at Whitney Portal, 11 miles from the top of Mt. Whitney…

March Madness

Tonight I had my first fast, strong run in nearly a month. Since the fall on my bike, I’ve either been in pain or trying to be careful not to re-aggravate whatever was bothering me. Over the course of the last two weeks, the pain has slowly gone away. I can still feel the occasional…

Zefrank.com

On an unrelated-to-triathlons note, for the last 51 weeks, my good friend Ze Frank has been writing, producing and starring in his video blog, “The Show”. When he started, he planned on producing a new episode every weekday for one year – he’s done just that and the year is over this Saturday, March 17….

BRICK

This morning I did my first semi-BRICK workout of the season. A “BRICK,” for those of you who don’t know, is a bike-run combination. No one really knows where the name comes from – it’s sort of a combination of the words “bike” and “run”, it sort of describes how your legs might feel coming…

Going clubbing?

This morning I did the same swim sets that I did on Friday (main set of 3x6x100). I swam great. I felt fluid and smooth in the water and had to remind myself to slow down. I swam the 100’s pretty consistently in the 1:29-1:32 range (I was supposed to be closer to 1:35). Yesterday…