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 )

Just asking

Nothing fancy, serious, or even really coherent in this post. Just thought of voicing out some questions that’s been running through my mind and wondering about lately.
1. Whatever happened to Run Radio?
I was really expecting they’d launch Season 2 a short time after the end of Season 1, but then so far there hasn’t [...]

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More expensive?

Some people, I imagine, would find it weird or even hypocritical for one to race abroad and at the same time complain about the registration fees of local races. “You pay so much for races abroad yet complain about expensive races here. Why the double standard? ‘Filipino’ or local does not necessarily mean ‘cheap’ you [...]

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The “Pacer” Report

Long time readers of this blog(and those who did some backreading) would know that in all of my local marathons, my brother always “paced” me for the last 10 kilometers or so. Thus when it came for his turn to debut in the said distance, it was just natural that I would return the favor [...]

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Kilometer 737: Condura 2010: Run for the Dolphins

The Condura 2009 was my first half marathon race ever. I got my first medal there, and it was while training for that event that I got introduced to shinsplints. It was, at that time, also a pretty expensive race, the first one that I had to shell out 500 bucks for. So yeah, it [...]

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“Missing” Condura and BDM

Condura, obviously, is February’s main racing event.
Among the distances in the Condura Race, the full is obviously the flagship distance. What the heck, most of the runner-bloggers in my RSS folder(which just about includes the who’s who of the local running world) would be doing the full this February 7.
For March, the main event is [...]

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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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