Sitting on the Dock of the Bay

Posted by bolt on Jun 25, 2009 in running | 0 comments

Last Sunday, I was contemplating on whether I should join the Men’s Health All Terrain Race or do an easy run along the Metro. I chose the latter.

You see the problem with trail runs is that they are usually held far away. I don’t have enough cash for gas and besides my trail running shoelaces have been damaged during my last trail run. They aren’t ordinary laces (kevlar) so I still have to wait for the replacement set to arrive.

As I was running along Roxas Boulevard, I was suprised to see a water aid station near PICC. Hmm .. could it be that there is a road race which was not announced in Takbo.ph ?

I arrived at the KM 0 marker with no incident and as I was eating my Kit-kat Wafer bar, I have noticed a support vehicle running along Roxas Boulevard followed by a group of runners. It seems that there was indeed a race and it started late (around 6:20 am). I think this is a “special” race because aside from regular runners, I saw people in their wheel chairs joining the race. It was a sight to behold, too bad that I wasn’t able to take pictures of them.

At that time, since I have already depleted my water supply, I thought of running as a bandit with this race but then again, I was too shy to do so. I folowed the runners until I entered the PICC compound.

It was a relaxing run plus I also now know how it feels to be a spectator in a road race.

I have learned a few things from this experience :

1. Bring cash in small denominations. Since my car is parked in MOA, I wasn’t able to drink water when I needed to. There were Buko vendors along the stretch of Roxas Boulevard, I could’ve had BJ at that time.
2. One Kit-kat bar is not enough. Hehehe. I don’t know why when I reached KM 0, I suddenly felt very very hungry. Energy gels would have been better but I didn’t bring my “stash“. Hammer Gel is so expensive and I only use them during road races

Since this was a solo run, I didn’t bring an MP3 player with me, although this song by Otis Redding would have been a relaxing tune to listen to while running :