Blog - Josh Spector

Still sick

My goodness. I lost an entire week. I lost a week of training, of course, but also of just plain being alive. Pretty much the last thing I rememeber it was Monday afternoon and I was starting to feel sick. All of a sudden it’s Saturday morning. (I’m guessing that between Monday at 9PM and…

Sick… stinks

So, while lack of sleep may have contributed, I was/am definitely sick. It started creeping up Monday afternoon and then it all came down on me that evening. I had the chills and a fever and some muscle aches. I got home, ate some soup and crawled into bed around 8:30. I watched a few…

Catching up

I’ve been so good about writing here on every training day, that I’m a little surprised I’m writing today to cover Saturday, Sunday and Monday. This weekend was a busy one – a fair amount of training (especially Saturday), a couple late nights, celebrating my birthday and all the other usual stuff we fill our…

Better yet?

I did get sleep last night. Still not enough to make up for how I’ve been feeling and it was still quite a struggle to get out of bed this morning, but I did it. And I had a reasonably good swim. It was a little harder than it should have been (and on a…

NEW BIKE!

I picked up the bike today and it is awesome. I love it. Not that I’ve been on it for more than a few seconds on the trainer at Jackrabbit, but it looks incredible, is feather light and just plain makes me think “fast”! I couldn’t really get a good picture, but the pictures below…

Sleepless

A sleepless night. It’s 1:15AM and I’ve been trying to sleep for a couple hours now. I’m exhausted – my brain hurts, my eyes are tired, my body is ready for sleep, but every time I lie down and close my eyes, my thoughts starts spinning, I don’t get comfortable and I can’t fall asleep….

Wow, still in a foul mood!

My hope that my bad mood would go away by today didn’t work out. Again I woke up in a cloud and really haven’t gotten out of it all day. I’ll still blame it on the late night, but that was Sunday night! How things have changed if I now need more than a day…

Starting strong in 2007

It’s 2007. The year of my Ironman. I guess that means it’s time to stop screwing around. Hopefully I haven’t exactly been “screwing around” these last few months, but my race preparation certainly isn’t going to be getting any easier! I’m scheduled for 11:35 of training this week. Yesterday was my sole day off (and…

New Year’s Eve Double

We flew back from California yesterday. We took off at 7:40AM and didn’t get home until nearly 6PM. Spending the entire day in the airplane is pretty beat, but we were fortunate to get upgraded and the flight was really easy. Elizabeth and I both slept for parts of the flight. Also, unlike the flight…

Long run – end of vacation

Today was our last day of vacation, or at least our last day of vacation in California. Tomorrow, Saturday, we’re spending the better part of the day flying home. Then Sunday is the 31st, Monday is New Year’s Day and then, Tuesday, I guess, we have to go back to work. So, really, we still…