Blog - Josh Spector

Turkey Day

Last night at the spin class a woman told us about a 10K Turkey Trot in Montauk this morning. Today was a running day for both of us and doing a race would have been fun. Unfortunately, Mother Nature had other ideas. When I got up this morning, it was pouring rain, windy and bitter…

Travel day/Spin class

This morning, I got up at 5:30AM Frankfurt time (11:30PM NY time) in order to catch my flight to London and then the connection to JFK. I didn’t sleep on the two hour flight from Frankfurt to London, but once I got settled on the flight to JFK and had some lunch, I slept pretty…

Running abroad

I’m in Germany. Well actually, I’m already traveling home, but since I didn’t get a chance to write while I was there, I’ll do my recap now. After watching the Ohio State-Michigan game (Go Bucks!) with Jason, Chad and Jon, I rushed to the airport for my trip to Nuremberg. The travel was fine and…

Busy Saturday

I’m leaving for Germany tonight and had two scheduled workouts and the Ohio State-Michigan football game to watch. Miraculously, I was able to get it all in. I got up early and did the run – I’ve been feeling great on my runs recently and today was no exception. It was a really nice morning…

More new workouts

Yesterday was an off day. Although I know that I need the rest and recovery, I really feel crappy just about every day I take off, whether scheduled or not. I just feel sluggish and slow all day – and never feel like I really wake up. Yesterday was one of those days. I felt…

Feeling good, again!

Today I was scheduled for a swim and strength training. I would have liked to have swam in the morning and then lifted in the evening, but Elizabeth and I have plans tonight, so I lifted immediately after I got out of the pool. The swim felt great. I did longer sets (300-400 yards) and…

Struggling to come back

Yesterday was supposed to be my first big day back from marathon recovery. Instead, I didn’t work out at all. I was scheduled to swim and strength train, but I absolutely could not get out of bed in the morning and Elizabeth and I had plans last night. Additionally, I didn’t really feel that great….

Another easy day

Day 7 of “recovery”. I definitely feel like I’m recovered, but there’s no reason to rush back into it. I’m struggling with the decision of when to run again. I’m thinking that I’ll try to go for a short, easy run tomorrow morning. I talked to John last week and he told me just to…

Beautiful Day, Easy Ride

Last night I went to the gym and did some strength work for the first time in a long while. It certainly wasn’t a weight-lifting workout like I used to do (even earlier this year), but it did feel good to be something other than cardio and push-ups. I warmed up on the bike and…

And another one – this one with a swim and massage!

This morning I got up and went to the pool for a nice, easy swim. Of course, once I got in the water and started swimming, I had a hard time taking it too easy, but I didn’t do any speed sets and tried to keep it at a calm(er) pace. I swam 1,500 yards…