Posted July 17th, 2010 by wilson
Wow, it’s been a while. What can I say - life got in the way of blogging(not necessarily running). I think I’d be able to do better in the coming weeks, blogging-wise. For now though, forgive this post that’s about a race that’s already two weeks old.
As I said before, a lot of things obviously [...]
Tags: 34th National Milo Marathon, Eng'gfinity: The Engineering Centennial Run, fight, Manila Eliminations, Quezon City International Marathon, Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon, Subic International Marathon
Posted April 13th, 2010 by wilson
How many road races do we have yearly? 40? 50? Indeed, I daresay that currently, we must be the “run-craziest” country in Asia, or at least in its Southeast region.
Surprisingly however, we are not really in the international marathoning map. Japan has the Tokyo Marathon. Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Hong Kong have races sponsored by [...]
Tags: full marathon, Philippine International Marathon, Quezon City International Marathon, Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon, Subic International Marathon
Posted March 30th, 2010 by wilson
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 [...]
Tags: Condura 2009: Skyway Run for the Whale Sharks, Condura 2010: Run for the Dolphins, Greenfield City Run, Quezon City International Marathon, Run Radio, Runrio, TNF 100
Posted March 19th, 2010 by wilson
The Takbo.ph race calendar is already filled with races that would be held months from now. What the heck, the Condura 2011 Marathon is already there, an encouraging sign and proof of the Concepcion brothers’ commitment to what is shaping up to be country’s top road racing series.
Actually, all of the events that I am [...]
Tags: Philippine International Marathon, Quezon City International Marathon, Subic International Marathon, upcoming races
Posted February 25th, 2010 by wilson
Perspective
Hong Kong and Singapore are home to the two oldest Standard Chartered Marathons in the region, although there are fledgling events in Bangkok(Thailand) and Kuala Lumpur(Malaysia) - yeah, it is kinda sad that Manila has been left out. Anyway, as such, it can’t be helped for the two events to be compared. There is quite [...]
Tags: Philippine International Marathon, Quezon City International Marathon, Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon, Subic International Marathon
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 November 18th, 2009 by wilson
I am down to my last two races for the year. Shocking, I know, considering that I had months with four races in them. Well, it’s because one of the two is special(and a bit expensive)
I already talked about one of the two, the Power Run, which I nearly missed registering for. It actually fell [...]
Tags: 42.195K, full marathon, New Balance Power Run, Philippine International Marathon, Quezon City International Marathon, Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon, Subic International Marathon
Posted November 4th, 2009 by wilson
Tough races don’t last…
I will run in the Philippine International Marathon this coming weekend.
At the risk of sounding like Manny Pacquiao’s promoter(who touts each and every upcoming fight of Manny to be his toughest ever), I’d say that the PIM is the toughest of the QCIM-SIM-PIM trio.
There is, of course, the issue of the five-hour [...]
Tags: 33rd National Milo Marathon, 42.195K, full marathon, Manila Eliminations, Philippine International Marathon, Quezon City International Marathon, Subic International Marathon
Posted October 26th, 2009 by wilson
Don’t stop me now
My brother soon joined me on the road. From that point forward, our vehicle remained with us, just being a couple of kilometers ahead and ready to supply us with anything. After 32 kilometers, I was no longer running alone.
Kilometer after kilometer passed. It was dark, and we no longer had an [...]
Tags: 42.195K, full marathon, Philippine International Marathon, Quezon City International Marathon, Subic International Marathon
