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 )

Effects

Like many others who have been racing for more than a year, the rise in registration fees changed my racing and training routines:
1. On Overracing.
Even Dr George Sheehan in his book, “Dr. Sheehan On Running” identified overracing as something that athletes must be constantly on the lookout for. Overracing brings either injury or even [...]

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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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(Almost) a view from the other side

Late last year my organization at the university tapped me for a possible fun run that would have been held in February or March of this year.
I set out to work immediately after getting my assignment, planning on what would be needed and the people that we would have to talk to and do business [...]

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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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