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 )

Wake me up when January ends

One of the first things I did when my “sabbatical” ended was to schedule my upcoming races. February is packed with important races, so I really hoped that I would be able to start racing this January, to get back into the racing “groove”.
When I checked the race calendar though, I was very disappointed. Not [...]

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Philippine Racing Scene 2009 - in a glance

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 [...]

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Kilometer 61: PSE Bull Run 2009

Okay, so this is hardly an ideal first racing event of the year. Everybody who follows a decent number of local road racing blogs would’ve read by now lots of bad things about how this race was organized, and yes, I do agree with a lot of those points. Distributing some singlets just before [...]

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