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 )

No country(or sport) for old men

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), [...]

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Kilometer 888: Eng’gfinity: The Engineering Centennial Run

Success
With or without “fight” problems, I would have joined this race because of my ties to the College. Not only was I a student there for 7 years, I am also now a part of the faculty. And years ago, I was also tangentially involved with the College’s Student Council, which is the entity behind [...]

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No more “fight”

Wow, it’s been a while. What can I say - life got in the way of blogging(not necessarily running). I think I’d be able to do better in the coming weeks, blogging-wise. For now though, forgive this post that’s about a race that’s already two weeks old.
As I said before, a lot of things obviously [...]

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Kilometer 878: 34th National Milo Marathon - Manila Eliminations

First off, I’d like to extend my congratulations to the Milo people for an excellently handled race. I expected the 3 loops to  bore and confuse people. Well the former did happen, but Milo has to be given credit for proving me wrong in the latter. The route still sucks big time though.
This race certainly [...]

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