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 )

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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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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Calling Swatch and Fern Slim

Last time around I wrote about how even Papa Piolo’s presence simply doesn’t make a half marathon worth 750 bucks.
Girls of course might have a different opinion, because, well, they’re girls.
That got me thinking: maybe the presence of another celebrity would change my mind, and that of other guys.
How about we replace Papa Piolo, with, [...]

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Running out of Time(x)

This Sunday, I would be missing one of November’s running biggest event: the Timex Run.
It’s not because I had grown tired of racing and will no longer join the “garden variety” ones. The Timex Run, as I said, is a major event. I certainly haven’t grown tired of racing. And I still love the small [...]

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