Posted October 31st, 2009 by wilson
My racing celebrates its first year anniversary today. Exactly a year ago, on an early Friday evening at Bonifacio High Street, I ran my very first race, the Shake Rattle and Run.
End of Season 1
If my racing and running saga is a TV series, I’d say that we’ve come to the end of season one.
I [...]
Tags: anniversary, Isuzu Shake Rattle and Run, Philippine International Marathon
Posted October 29th, 2009 by wilson
A lot was already said about the shortcomings of the Subic International Marathon’s organizers last weekend, specifically about the lack of lighting, water, and other unkempt promises. Hence I would no longer write about those things, but instead focus on another aspect of the event, the participation of a lot of policemen or would-be policemen.
I [...]
Tags: hakot, Subic International Marathon
Posted October 26th, 2009 by wilson
Don’t stop me now
My brother soon joined me on the road. From that point forward, our vehicle remained with us, just being a couple of kilometers ahead and ready to supply us with anything. After 32 kilometers, I was no longer running alone.
Kilometer after kilometer passed. It was dark, and we no longer had an [...]
Tags: 42.195K, full marathon, Philippine International Marathon, Quezon City International Marathon, Subic International Marathon
Posted October 25th, 2009 by wilson
Prep
I deliberately had a zero-run week leading to this one. All I did five days before this race for recovery and maintenance was crosstrain.
We got to Subic around Saturday late morning, just in time for some final carboload at Wimpys’, where I met Sam, Rico, and Luis, along with some other takbo.ph peeps.
My plan for [...]
Tags: 42.195K, full marathon, Quezon City International Marathon, Subic International Marathon
Posted October 23rd, 2009 by wilson
Tomorrow is the Subic International Marathon or SIM. It is going to be my fourth marathon, and my second one this full marathon season. Anyway, as I am wont to do whenever I have too many thoughts buzzing around my head and I am too lazy to make one single coherent post, quick thoughts:
i. This [...]
Tags: 33rd National Milo Marathon, 42.195K, full marathon, Manila Eliminations, Paa-Tibayan, Philippine International Marathon, Quezon City International Marathon, Subic International Marathon
Posted October 20th, 2009 by wilson
In retrospect
It was a really really tough finish. The last 3 kilometers really took everything out of me, so much so that the medical crew approached me after crossing. Okay, that’s nothing to be proud of.
4:16:50. 11 minutes shaved off the previous record.
Obviously, still no sub-4 finish. And since I took a kilometer-plus long walkbreak, [...]
Tags: 42.195K, full marathon, Quezon City International Marathon, Subic International Marathon
Posted October 20th, 2009 by wilson
32 and beyond
Having started the race deliberately slow to “prime” the engines a bit, I then allowed myself to enter attack phase, and go at it as fast as I comfortably can. I hardly looked at the 405, though I’m pretty sure I was then going below 5:40 - the even pace for sub-4. The [...]
Tags: 42.195K, full marathon, Quezon City International Marathon
Posted October 19th, 2009 by wilson
Last 10
The marathon is all about remaining in contention in the last ten kilometers. I hardly did that in my first two. I cramped really badly before kilometer 30 in Botak, while my legs gave out at around kilometer 32 in the Milo elims. My 4:28 finish was primarily because of how fast I handled [...]
Tags: 33rd National Milo Marathon, 42.195K, full marathon, Manila Eliminations, Paa-Tibayan, Quezon City International Marathon
Posted October 16th, 2009 by wilson
It’s funny that after two finishes, I still get the pre-marathon blues and jitters. The blues probably come from the lower than usual endorphin dosage: no getting around that, I have to taper. As for the jitters, it feels like I am approaching a moment of truth, an impending revelation. And I must admit, it [...]
Tags: 33rd National Milo Marathon, 42.195K, blues, full marathon, jitters, Manila Eliminations, Paa-Tibayan, Quezon City International Marathon
Posted October 11th, 2009 by wilson
I got to Luneta a bit too early for this one. I didn’t know that the gunstart for the half would come an entire hour after the full(I ran the full marathon last July), so I ended up spending a lot of time just hanging around. Anyway, Milo was nice enough to entertain us while [...]
Tags: 33rd National Milo Marathon, Isuzu Shake Rattle and Run, National Finals
