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 )
I love long runs not because they pay off but because they make you pay. While others celebrate the fact that you could just go out the door and run, that is not true for long runs.
Long runs demand your attention and some sort of deliberation. Fail to eat properly the night before a 20-miler [...]
Tags: long runs, motivation
Fate threw a monkey wrench in my half marathon season plan.
Okay, blaming fate would be outright irresponsible, so make that - I bungled my half marathon plan.
I missed out on the New Balance Power Race registration. I went to the Planet Sports branch in Trinoma last week, and I didn’t make it.
That means I’d only [...]
Tags: 21K, half marathon, New Balance Power Run
Back when I was an uber-newbie runner, I really looked forward to getting event singlets, and even wore them in races. It didn’t take long for me to discover that majority of event singlets are of crappy quality - either they are ill fitting, plain uncomfortable to wear, or cause problems like nipple chafing. Also, [...]
Tags: fun runs, singlets, t-shirts
The Four Way Test
I love going to Fairview. As anybody who lives in Fairview knows, one of the first things that’d greet you upon entering the area from Commonwealth Avenue is this huge slab of rock with the Rotary Club’s Four Way Test. Since the RotaRun is a Rotary Club event, let’s see how it [...]
Tags: 21K, half marathon, ROTARun '09
For some reason I always end up finding a great running related book whenever I go to SM City Baguio’s Booksale. I got my Duel in the Sun there last holy week; last time around, when I went to Baguio for the Centennial Run, it was Lance Armstrong’s Every Second Counts(okay, not exactly a running-related [...]
Tags: Every Second Counts, Lance Armstrong, Tour de France
I have been a full-time Linux user for almost three years now. At first it came out of necessity since almost all of the tools I use in my “work” are Unix based, but eventually I stuck with it since it is simply a “better” way of life. It is certainly not as user-friendly as [...]
I had always been “lucky” with race weather: it used to be that no matter how hard it was raining the night before, the skies would clear up right before my race starts. That was definitely not the case this morning. This race is without doubt the wettest and rainiest race I had ever joined [...]
Tags: 21K, Eco Dash, half marathon
I really find Jessica Zafra’s unsolicited advice to Noynoy Aquino funny yet very much relevant and true - especially #2, or not proposing to his girlfriend in Wowowee. But then why stop with that? Since we have a bunch of over eager presidentiables campaigning early, he could learn a lot of other things to do [...]
Tags: fun runs, Noynoy Aquino
I think that a lot of people have running confused with racing.
Whenever I get the question “When did you last run?”, I usually clarify whether the person meant when I last ran as in ran, or when I last raced(it turns out to be the latter most of the time).
What many don’t realize is that [...]
Tags: motivation
In a sense this was the replacement event for my planned(and canceled) Milo Eliminations in San Pablo. As I mentioned before, short races are usually disruptive in my weekly training. Nevertheless, I found it hard to pass up on this one - it was free(haha cheapskate!). Of course, it also didn’t hurt that quite a [...]
Tags: 5K, Mommy Milkshake Marathon Year 3
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
— Steve Prefontaine
