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 )
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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
The second loop is pretty much like the first loop, with the exception that the turn around is located at the Airport Hill.
My Dad and I set out from the Base Camp at around 6:30 pm. If I was slow on my way to the Base Camp from the Radar Station, I was even slower [...]
Tags: Baguio, TNF 100, trail, ultramarathon
How do you even begin telling the story of a hundred kilometer race? How do you perfectly put into words a 30 hour effort, when even while in the midst of it, the details already begin blurring in your own mind? How do you preserve the emotion, desperation, and everything else that one goes through [...]
Tags: Baguio, TNF 100, trail, ultramarathon
I think a couple of blogs already explained how the Championchip timing mechanism works. But I don’t ever remember reading anything on the “old-school” barcode-based system. Either it’s common knowledge, or simply nobody cares about such a “outdated” system.
Well, for those who are interested, here’s how it works.
The barcode timing system has two components, manned [...]
Tags: barcode, ChampionChip, RunPix, TNF 100
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
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
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
A friend shared me this website a few weeks ago.
Written tongue-in-cheek, it lists the things that Yuppies(Young Urban Professionals) do. It basically makes light fun of yuppie culture, which is centered on letting the whole world know “Hey I’m alive and doing cool stuff! Things are happening in my life!” and involves DSLRs(needed to get [...]
As many of you may know, the TNF 100 is my “race of the month” for April. A few days ago, they released the much-awaited map for this trail ultramarathon.
What really surprised me with the map was how they broke from tradition by implementing “different loops” for the 100K race. The first two editions of [...]
Tags: TNF 100
My outlook is that I never want to look back and wonder how fast I could have been.
— Doug Mock
