Blog - Josh Spector

Starting Base 2

Recovery week is over and it’s time to get back to business. I’m still feeling good about yesterday’s race – both physically and mentally. Like I went on about yesterday, I ran well and am very happy with my time. I went to bed early last night and slept really well. I was a little…

PR! (NYRR Half Marathon Grand Prix: Bronx)

Today it just felt right. I woke up feeling energized, ate the right breakfast (usual breakfast that is – oatmeal with raisins, half an apple, a little peanut butter, some protein powder and a little honey) a little more than two hours before race time, felt rested and relaxed, and wasn’t stressed about running a…

Wimping out?

I guess you’d be hard pressed to argue that a two-plus-hour ride is wimping out, but for the last few weeks, I’ve been really good about riding outside regardless of the temperature. Today though, I just couldn’t do it. My goal was an easy two hour ride, and even beginning yesterday, I was thinking that…

Swim drills

This morning I swam another 1,900 yards – a fairly easy, relaxed workout, consisting mostly of drills. Right before my cooldown, I did some 50 yard sprints, and got my heart rate up, but the vast majority of my 45 minutes was low intensity. I feel like I’m getting lazy this week – so far,…

Easing my way through recovery

This morning I rode for an easy 35 minutes in front of the TV. I did a few minutes of isolated leg training on each leg, but mostly just tried to keep my cadence high and the intensity low. Unfortunately, I think that my HR transmitter strap is finally totally dead, so I have no…

Good swim

Two days of rest and it’s time to get back at it. Slowly, that is – this is a recovery week after all. This morning I got in the pool and swam a relatively easy 3,000 yards. I did it in five long sets – 900, 700, 700, 400, 300 – and tried concentrating on…

Days off

Halfway through my second day off and I’m feeling pretty good. My lower back is still a little sore, but I feel generally refreshed and ready to get back at it. I’m not sure what the rest of my week is going to be like, but my sense is that it won’t be too strenuous….

I made it!

I just got the best news of the weekend. John sends me an email every Sunday with a little commentary about the coming week’s training. I knew that next week would be a recovery week, but I wasn’t sure exactly what that meant. Well, the email that I just got tells me that I get…

Ugh

If I felt like crap yesterday, I’m not sure how to describe today. Last night, my stomach was pretty upset and as a result I didn’t eat nearly enough to prepare myself for a four hour ride today. Also, I didn’t sleep all that great. I know, here I go complaining again, but I’m just…

And today I feel like…

Crap. I’m not sure why, but I have tons of ideas. First the positives: I ate a good dinner after my run and slept well last night. Now the “negatives”: I must have had two dozen cookies yesterday, I stayed up pretty late playing with Charlie and hanging out with Elizabeth, I haven’t had a…