Posted June 16th, 2010 by wilson
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
Posted December 31st, 2009 by wilson
1. Train better.
I am, by admission, not a fussy runner when it comes to training. While I do adhere to the gradual increase in weekly mileage, my training routine lacks the regularity, variety and specificity present in the elite runner’s arsenal(speedwork-tempo-long run). If I am to get better, I would simply have to train better [...]
Tags: 2010, National Finals, new year, resolutions, Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon, TNF 100
Posted December 23rd, 2009 by wilson
If I would be asked to create a timeline of the key developments and events in the 2009 racing scene, I would come up with the following:
January - racing season opens with the PSE Bull Run, which was a flop(execution-wise)
March - standard for local races raised with the historic Condura 2009: Run for the Whale [...]
Tags: 33rd National Milo Marathon, Bataan Death March 2009, Condura 2009: Skyway Run for the Whale Sharks, Kenny’s Open 2009 Urbanite Run, National Finals, Philippine International Marathon, PSE Bull Run 2009, Quezon City International Marathon, Rizal Day 20-miler, Run for Home, Subic International Marathon, timeline, Timex Run, TNF 100
Posted November 29th, 2009 by wilson
I came into this race both excited and apprehensive.
I was excited because it had been three weeks since I last joined a race, the last one being the PIM. While I certainly did not miss waking up at 3:30am every Sunday morning, I did miss the race day atmosphere, and the race day people very [...]
Tags: 33rd National Milo Marathon, half marathon, National Finals, New Balance Power Race, Quezon City International Marathon, Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon
Posted October 11th, 2009 by wilson
I got to Luneta a bit too early for this one. I didn’t know that the gunstart for the half would come an entire hour after the full(I ran the full marathon last July), so I ended up spending a lot of time just hanging around. Anyway, Milo was nice enough to entertain us while [...]
Tags: 33rd National Milo Marathon, Isuzu Shake Rattle and Run, National Finals
Posted October 9th, 2009 by wilson
A few days ago I wrote a little script that crawls through race results and computes the average finish time in a race. I then decided to test it on some of the Milo results that are available online. I chose Milo, particularly the Manila races, because we all know that it won’t be fair [...]
Tags: 31st National Milo Marathon, 32nd National Milo Marathon, 33rd National Milo Marathon, Manila Eliminations, National Finals
