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 [...]

Tags: 34th National Milo Marathon, 42.195K, full marathon, Manila Eliminations

This is part where the Milo people are supposed to say “Joke lang”

Oh man.
Just when the entire running blogosphere is singing praises to Milo for “modernizing” the well-loved series(even letting them “get away” with a hundred percent increase in registration fee), they unleash this upon us

Three loops, Milo, seriously?
Personally it feels like Milo took 3 steps forward, and 2 steps back. I mean, forget about the timing [...]

Tags: 34th National Milo Marathon, 42.195K, full marathon, Manila Eliminations

15 minutes - in the wrong direction

I have always associated breaking the four-hour barrier with qualifying of the Milo Finals. It was a pretty good pair. The Milo Finals is the most prestigious and exclusive of all the local races. Four hours is the time-standard for the full, the very same way 2 hours is for the half, 1 hour is [...]

Tags: 34th National Milo Marathon, 42.195K, Boston Marathon, full marathon, Manila Eliminations, National Finals

Biggest Loser Asia

One of the few TV shows that I currently follow is the Biggest Loser Asia(Tuesdays, 9pm, Hallmark Channel). It certainly is different from the usual reality shows like PBB or Amazing Race where the contestants are all artistahin and most would probably get showbiz careers after the contest. It is certainly worlds away from the [...]

Tags: 21K, 42.195K, Biggest Loser Asia, full marathon, half marathon

Kilometer 779: Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon 2010(Part 2 of 2)

Join the race, feel the energy
I think I already mentioned that the field in the SCHKM is going to be strong. I didn’t realize however just the extent of that strength until I ran the last 6 miles of the event.
I make it a point to encourage other runners struggling during the full, especially during [...]

Tags: 42.195K, full marathon, Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon

Kilometer 779: Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon 2010(Part 1 of 2)

Pre-race
I arrived in HK for the marathon on Friday evening. I got my race kit from in Victoria Park on Saturday morning, a process which was largely hassle-free, but also significantly less “exciting” than that in Singapore - the SCHKM expo after all, was held weeks before.
I was careful not to repeat the mistakes I [...]

Tags: 42.195K, full marathon, Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon

Kilometer 706: Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2009(Part 2 of 2)

Going home
I began to walk. It wasn’t easy, but I knew(I experienced the pain before in training) that with warm up I would be able to run again, even if painfully. An Indian guy(whose name I unfortunately didn’t get) passed beside me and encouraged me to run, saying “mind over matter” over and over again. [...]

Tags: 42.195K, full marathon, Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon

Kilometer 706: Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2009(Part 1 of 2)

Simply amazing
I arrived in Singapore on Thursday morning. As I said in my last pre-race post, I would be taking care of race matters early on. So that very same afternoon I went to the Expo to claim my race kit.
The SCSM is a very big event, so I was expecting queues, like what happened [...]

Tags: 42.195K, full marathon, Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon

12-06-2009

I am down to my last two races for the year. Shocking, I know, considering that I had months with four races in them. Well, it’s because one of the two is special(and a bit expensive)
I already talked about one of the two, the Power Run, which I nearly missed registering for. It actually fell [...]

Tags: 42.195K, full marathon, New Balance Power Run, Philippine International Marathon, Quezon City International Marathon, Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon, Subic International Marathon

Kilometer 643: Philippine International Marathon(Part 2 of 2)

Something else
I, together with my brother/pacer walked kilometers 32-34. After a walk-free marathon in Subic, I was, once again, back to taking walkbreaks. I am not proud of that but that’s what I did.
Eventually though a second application of liniment took care of the twitching in my calves. The gel which I took at kilometer [...]

Tags: 42.195K, full marathon, Philippine International Marathon