Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want something badly enough. They are there to keep out the other people. - Randy Pausch ( 1960-2008 )
A self proclaimed Kapamilya, I must admit that I wasn’t aware that this race was being sponsored by the QTV 11 show Chances Are till I was already registering at GMA 7. I didn’t even know there is such a show. Anyway, Step Up for a Cause was a simple yet well-organized event. It was [...]
Tags: 10K, Step Up for A Cause
Prologue
The first leg of the 37 kilometer weekend saw me setting a new personal worst at the distance of 16K. The second leg was at the Greenfield City Half Marathon in Santa Rosa Laguna. I knew that if I were to salvage the weekend, I would have to turn in a good performance at the [...]
Tags: 21K, back-to-back, Greenfield City Run, half marathon
The SlimmeRun was the first leg of the 37 kilometer weekend. I must admit, this race was a must-run for me: as my “home gym”, my registration fee was waived, and I would get to run for free. Now that rarely happens. Also, while I go the gym exclusively for the treadmill(which I prefer way [...]
Tags: 16K, back-to-back, Slimmer's World SlimmeRun
I have a really long weekend up ahead, distance-wise. I opted for the maximum distance this weekend, and signed up for the SlimmeRun 16K and the Greenfield City Run half marathon. That’s a total of 37 kilometers, which would be my greatest cumulative racing mileage in a single weekend. My current record stands at 21 [...]
Tags: back-to-back, Greenfield City Run, Slimmer's World SlimmeRun, upcoming races
I was in SM City’s National Book Store earlier today when I spotted the paperback version of Haruki Murakami’s “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”. It hardly classifies as Lenten season reading material but I immediately bought it as I had been waiting for the book’s paperback version to come out since [...]
Tags: Books, Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Whenever there are multiple races on a given day, something(more like someone) simply has to give. There would always be a dominant race causing all the buzz while the other(or even others) get much less attention. The Exodus Run simply got the raw end of the deal this Sunday, being overshadowed by the Airspeed Run [...]
Tags: 10K, Exodus Run
April is promising to be one hell of an jampacked month, racing wise.
There are the two races this April 5, the Exodus Run and the Airspeed Run: the former at Ultra and the latter at MOA.
The Filipino racing community takes a break in the second week to give way to the observance of the Lenten [...]
Tags: Airspeed Run, Exodus Run, Greenfield City Run, Slimmer's World SlimmeRun, Step Up for A Cause, Sun Fest '09 Fun Run, Takbo Para sa Kabataang Marikeno, Takbo Para sa Sining, upcoming races
I have a confession to make.
I don’t see the point in it anymore: the pursuit of PRs, the pain, the injuries, the lost Sunday morning shuteye, everything. At the end of the day, the sport, regardless of the distance, boils down to men in sandos(that’s what singlets are, aren’t they?) and short shorts going around [...]
Tags: quitting
When you run a marathon, you mean it. We’re built for running. We dream of flying. For now, though, we’re built to run.
— Benjamin Cheever
