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

Posted July 30th, 2010 by wilson

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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Every Second Counts

Posted September 18th, 2009 by wilson

For some reason I always end up finding a great running related book whenever I go to SM City Baguio’s Booksale. I got my Duel in the Sun there last holy week; last time around, when I went to Baguio for the Centennial Run, it was Lance Armstrong’s Every Second Counts(okay, not exactly a running-related [...]

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Old farts

Posted July 28th, 2009 by wilson

Lance Armstrong did not win it after all.
Yes, I am one of the “yellow banded faithful” who followed the Tour live on the internet, and who “grieved” when the Tour returned to Paris with Armstrong not in yellow. I’m not that sad though. Considering the circumstances, a third place finish is still great. And besides, [...]

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