I started running in November 2008 and until now, I haven’t had a sub 60 PR – so I thought maybe I might be doing something wrong. I knew I had to reinvent myself: * Shave my head * Wear short shorts * Wear Nike running shirt (with a lightning design, it made me feel like I was Bolt) – “Bolt, Zoom Zoom!” * Wear my Adidas adiZero (it’s supposed to be the World’s fastest shoe, hehe) Last Sunday’s Step up quarter marathon, sponsored by GMA Network, is one of the few better-organized races. I really appreciate the kilometer markings (since I don’t have a GF305). It enabled me to maintain my pace and helped me achieve my PR. They gave bottled water in the aid stations and they even gave out two finisher t-shirts when they ran out of bags! The only negative news that I’ve heard of was the long queue at the finish line of the 5k. This reminds me of what happened during this year’s PSE bull run. Oh well, nobody’s perfect. My next race would be the Botak half-marathon scheduled 2 weeks from now. This would be my 2nd half-marathon in six months, the first being the Condura half. I would have run the Greenfiled race but it was way too far. Too bad though, because I won’t be able to use the same running shoes, I would need to use my Asics on the half mary. Let’s see if the formula still works. Hehe! Some of you might suggest that it must be the training. Well, I trained a bit before the Condura half and then stopped. The next running experience I had was when we paced my friend Isko during the Bataan 102. That was my first...

  So I hung out with the ladies (Ava was home sleeping argh!) at Nike, Greenbelt (beside Powerbooks) to buy their stuff, went to Chimara for Joanne’s Santa Fe, and Irene’s NY Fries. Somehow, I got persuaded to run 5k on Sunday. Sometime before I went to sleep last night, I found out that I will be running almost a quarter marathon…!!! It took me several seconds to let it all sink in. I have an ongoing mild asthma attack (prolly due to allergies that I am yet to be aware of as I haven’t had my allergens test for this year). Hmmm … Suicidal? I don’t think so. I love life. Well, I THINK I love life because I’m about to let myself experience it at the speed of 10 KM an hour....

        Philippine Stock Exchange: Bull Run 2008. December 21, 2007 near midnight, when I heard about it and what ran through my mind were bulls running with people–Spanish tradition (also as what my friends first led me to believe cos they started tripping on me!) It had been a really slow coffee-night-after-dinner meetup and that really woke me up. I realized they weren’t true because they started cracking up.   Ava Joanne Irene   10km will be my first run. Not 3k, 5k, and not even 6k. I’ve always been the type to go club-hopping, spend an entire week getting drunk with friends, and just lounge around for lack of better things to do. I’ve been taking my time off after college and this conversation happened. So, I thought: why the heck not?      ...