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 )

Something good

As part of my preparations for the HKSCM, I have been doing a lot of training in UP lately. One thing that I noticed is the sudden increase of people training in the Academic Oval, in particular, the sudden influx of newbies going around around the 2.2-kilometer track. Well, I say “newbies” because, first, some [...]

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Boo, Papa Derek, boo!

Model-actor Derek Ramsay to run despite knee injury
Well, well. Looks like Papa Derek won’t be following the steps of Papa Piolo, who astounded just about everyone with an excellent time in his maiden 10K event. I guess Piolo remains the on the top of my personal and highly unofficial showbiz runners power rankings, closely followed [...]

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On registration fees

When i started out in racing, the standard registration fee was just 250 pesos. I remember finding the Condura and Greenfield races quite expensive then, but it was okay since I generally considered them as “special” races(Condura had the skyway, Greenfield was in Laguna). The standard registration fee kept on rising all through out 2009 [...]

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