Blog - Josh Spector

31:55:07 (DONE!)

I prepared. I ran. I finished. Badwater 135 is done. It took me 31:55:07 and I fought nearly every minute of those hours. I finished in 18th place, behind and in front of a whole bunch of amazing athletes. I’m honored to have had the opportunity to participate in an event with those runners. As…

Badwater – 48 hours (actually 47) to go

Badwater is now just 48 hours away. The race starts on Monday and I’m in the 8am starting wave. In a few hours, Elizabeth, Aaron and I will head out to Lone Pine with a mini-van full of what looks like enough supplies to live on the moon for a month. In Lone Pine, we’ll meet up…

The final week

One thing is for sure. With one week to go until Badwater, I’m feeling much much better than I was with two weeks to go! The first week of July was not the best part of my training (in fact it pretty much sucked). Right about the time I started to wind down my training,…

Monthly Summary – June 2014

(photo: Ben Jones) June is done. And that means that Badwater is exactly three weeks from today. That final countdown thing is really starting now. June was a good month, not as strong a training month as May (and less than I’d planned for the month), but I managed a decent amount of mileage and…

Badwater 135 Recon

(photo: Ben Jones) Just in case it hasn’t already been real enough, sh*t got really real last weekend when Billy, Colin and I spent a few days in Lone Pine checking out the Badwater 135 course. I’ve crewed and paced the race three times so I know the original course fairly well, but due to…

“My Time”

This video dropped today: “My Time” I love it. Thanks to Tailwind Nutrition and Billy Yang for making it happen! And this is just the first in a series of three videos that will capture my experience training for and participating in Badwater 135!

Pushing Limits (and making smart decisions)

(photo: Colin) This weekend, I finished up another three week training block with three long runs. Friday night I ran 24 miles around Mt. Wilson, Saturday was 15 in the Hollywood Hills and Sunday was 19 around Mt. Lowe (starting with the 1 mile, 1,500 feet of elevation gain climb up Steep and Cheap seen…

Monthly Summary – May 2014

With just about seven weeks to go until Badwater (50 days to be exact), I’m very happy to say that May was yet another really strong month of running for me. I ran more miles in May (393.5) than in any previous month ever and had among the highest amount of total elevation gain I’ve…

Whoo’s in El Moro 50k – Race Report

(photo: Ulysses Chan) The Whoo’s in El Moro 50k (WIEM) was over a week ago and I really have no excuse for taking this long to post a race review, especially since this one will be easy. Frankly, this race report is mostly just a way for me to post a few great pictures from…

New Kicks for Raceday (Updated post-race)

Who doesn’t love new shoes? Yes, maybe it’s a little crazy to wear new shoes for the first time during a 50k race (I decided last night to sign up for Whoo’s in El Moro 50k on Saturday in the OC), but this is my third pair of the Nike Zoom Terra Kigers and the other…