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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Kilometer 307: VolunteeRun

I had three wishes for the VolunteeRun which I posted before.
I wished that they would be timing the race. And they did! Well they started the race late, but that was okay. No big Timex digital clocks for this one, but since my expectations from them frankly aren’t that high, I am pretty happy.
I wished [...]

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Track meet?

According to the organizers of the VolunteeRun when I registered, the course for the half marathon would consist of a 3 kilometer track ran 7 times. Yes, seven. And to think that I almost abandoned the UP Acad oval as home track when I began training for distances beyond 16K, and that I was thankful [...]

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Spoiled by Half Marathons

I will be running in the VolunteeRun this coming Sunday.
I thought about running in the Botak event, but decided that it simply doesn’t fit with my plans for Milo(which I hold very very important). It is simply too long(even the 50K), and it would not be wise to risk it.
I was actually ready to register [...]

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