Posted July 30th, 2010 by wilson
Around this time a year ago, I wrote a piece about how age is becoming irrelevant in many of today’s sport, and how many of our current sports heroes aren’t exactly young(at least by today’s highly youth-centric standards).
This year however, seemingly presents a different story.
Roger Federer staged a surprising comeback last year(after a forgettable 2008), [...]
Tags: Lance Armstrong, Michael Schumacher, Roger Federer, Tour de France
Posted June 8th, 2010 by wilson
Sometimes, after a long “working” day, I look back and realize that despite all of the day’s accomplishments, I am still way far from what I want or need to accomplish overall. For instance, I’d work all day finishing a set of slides only to realize afterwards that I still have to do 15 other [...]
Tags: concrete truth, philosophy
Posted May 21st, 2010 by wilson
Sometimes I wonder whether it’s possible to have a true “For the People, By the People” Race. I mean, not just a cheap race, but a truly free race. A “grassroots” event.
What does a race need anyway?
With lots of people owning a GF305 or 405 - an accurate distance reading should be no problem.
As long [...]
Tags: fun runs, GF405, grassroots race
Posted May 18th, 2010 by wilson
I must admit, there are times when all the running related commercialism is beginning to get to me.
Running-racing is clearly is big business nowadays, and everybody wants a piece of the pie.
I know that big businesses and the well-established brands will always be part of our life. I am not advocating that we all go [...]
Tags: commercialization
Posted May 11th, 2010 by wilson
A few posts ago, I wondered why the TNF100 which was handled by Runrio last year, was handled by Pinoy Ultra Runners last month.
As I said before, it was an interesting scenario since major events rarely change organizers: Condura and Mizuno are with RACE, Run for Home and Greenfield, with Finishline.
Anyway, for whatever reason that [...]
Tags: Men's Health All Terrain Race, RACE, Runrio, singlets, TNF 100
Posted May 4th, 2010 by wilson
When I was reading Dr Sheehan on Running a few weeks ago, one of the first things that came to my mind was “This book won’t sell well if it was released in this decade.”
Aside from the fact that his essays could be quite long(too long for a blog post anyway), he also goes against [...]
Tags: Dr. Sheehan on Running, George Sheehan, John Bingham
Posted April 30th, 2010 by wilson
Credits
I have a confession to make.
I hate being anywhere near sentimental in race reports. I actually cringe a bit at my first few full marathon race reports. I’d rather have my races be mainly about time splits, game plan executions, attack patterns and finisher rankings than anything else.
But I think I’d make an exception with [...]
Tags: Baguio, TNF 100, trail, ultramarathon
Posted April 20th, 2010 by wilson
The marathon is hardly a “classy” sport. In fact, it may be the opposite of “class”.
While tennis and golf usually have attires that you could easily wear to the mall, marathoners are stuck with shorts and singlet(”sando” to the non-runner). But more than that, its what takes place inside the attire that makes the marathon [...]
Tags: shitting
Posted April 16th, 2010 by wilson
When I arrived in Hong Kong for the SCHKM, I of course, had to go through the immigration booth at airport.
I didn’t have any worries whatsoever. My passport was already of the convenient machine-readable type(they do give people with non-machine readable passports a hard time sometimes), and I had accumulated enough “stamps” from quite a [...]
Tags: full marathon, Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon
Posted April 13th, 2010 by wilson
How many road races do we have yearly? 40? 50? Indeed, I daresay that currently, we must be the “run-craziest” country in Asia, or at least in its Southeast region.
Surprisingly however, we are not really in the international marathoning map. Japan has the Tokyo Marathon. Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Hong Kong have races sponsored by [...]
Tags: full marathon, Philippine International Marathon, Quezon City International Marathon, Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon, Subic International Marathon
