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 bit better now, thanks

Posted June 6th, 2010 by wilson

The past few days had been relatively cool, and on top of that, there had been scattered rains. I certainly hope this trend continues. I have had enough of this summer, the hottest and most humid of all the summers in my memory(I have around two decades’ worth). It certainly made training and racing tough. Of all my races this summer, only the TNF100 was mercifully spared by the heat - and part of that was because of the Baguio setting. I had long moved my training runs to the evening or very late afternoon, since it was already too hot to run beyond 8am - and I rarely get to UP earlier than 7.

PAGASA says the hot spell might persist till the second week of June. I sure hope they got it wrong. I still have lots of miles to log for my Milo preparations. Not only would lower temps make longer runs possible, the sporadic June rains would also provide training for conditions usual in a Milo Manila eliminations race(it rained last year mid-race).

Happy training, everyone.

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