Blog - Josh Spector

Raising Money for The Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF)

Below is an email that I’ve been sending out to family and friends. If yours hasn’t arrived yet, it may be coming soon! If you are interested, I’d appreciate a donation. You can click on the CAF logo below or on the CAF logo on the side column of my website. Thanks!! Dear Friends and…

Race Envy

I’ve got it. Big time. I decided in March that I wasn’t going to race at all between Brazil and Badwater. There was a point before I made that decision where I was looking at 50 and 100 mile races all over the country to see if I could fit one into my training schedule,…

Monthly Summary – April 2014

April was a good month. I built on some momentum from the second half of March and carried it through to a solid month of training. And by “training”, I mostly mean “running”. Because that’s pretty much all the training I do these days! April had a lot of memorable moments: #1 – My Brazil…

How I Structure My Training

(on snowy Baden-Powell with Billy on Saturday) April is almost over and it went by in a flash. Mostly in a flash of good running, but a flash nonetheless. Tomorrow marks 12 weeks until Badwater, and thankfully this is yet another post where I talk about how happy I am with the current state of…

Brazil 135 Video on Buzzfeed, Part 2

Earlier today, I posted a video of my race at Brazil 135 in January that Henry Goldman at Buzzfeed made using GoPro video footage and timelapse photos I took during the race. Seeing the video on Buzzfeed Yellow on YouTube was really rad, but then this afternoon Henry posted the video on Buzzfeed itself with some awesome commentary,…

What It’s Like To Run 135 Miles (Brazil 135 race video)

As some of you probably noticed from the photos from Brazil 135, I wore a GoPro camera on my head for chunks of the race. The headstrap mount was actually pretty comfortable and did a great job both on video mode and timelapse. It didn’t do so well at night, but that’s to be expected…

Monthly Summary – March 2014

(photo: Colin) March was something of a reboot month for me. I got back from Asia at the beginning of the month and wasn’t physically or mentally ready to get back into training. And it took me a couple weeks to find my way back into a work, training, eating and sleeping rhythm. But the…

Full Steam Ahead

(photo: Colin) After a few fits and starts, Badwater 135 training is officially “full steam ahead”. And that’s a really good thing, since the race starts just 17 weeks (119 days) from today! We got back from our trip to Southeast Asia three weeks ago and I needed nearly all of that time to recover and…

Back in the Mountains

(photo: Dom) This morning, after two weeks in Thailand (and seven weeks before that between taper for and recovery from Brazil 135), I made it back to Temescal for my “usual” Tuesday B.O.C. run for the first time in 2014. I’m feeling fat and achy and totally out of shape so I suffered a little…

Monthly Summary – February 2014

Sunrise, Angkor Wat As expected, February was split into two very different halves. During the first half of the month, I started slowly getting back into training and running. And I mean really slowly. I was busy at work, busy planning our trip, struggling to motivate to get up in the morning and train and…