It’s quite funny actually, I’m giving advice to other people to taper-off for the Condura Run but last night I’m the first one to break my advice. As I was writing my previous blog yesterday night I was having a dilemma if I was to continue running or not. Although it seemed like I was…
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Pre-Race Dilemma: To Run or Not To Run?
With the Condura Race right around the corner I’m faced with a dilemma: to taper off or to continue running (with ease). Just last Sunday I did my longest run distance-wise, 22K LSD along Commonwealth Ave. What complicates my situation was that before this LSD was a lack-luster 3 weeks that only garnered a total…
Weekend LSD: Commonwealth Run
It has been a while since my last LSD and this time around I got to run one of my most anticipated locations: Commonwealth Ave. It was a long overdue run that was held back because of a lot of events and this time I got to finally execute the plan into action. That LSD…
Feb Summary: Raceless But Not Runless
February was a great month, but in terms of races it’s not as fulfilling as I had expected. Major races during the month were scheduled on the second half, which was the time I left for US, resulting in a raceless month for me—a first since I started running regularly. Being raceless doesn’t really mean…
The Story of My First Winter Run
Finally after several days of running abstinence I was able to get back to running, despite the sub-zero (°C) temperature. It’s still winter here in Ohio and although we don’t have several inches of snow on the ground we barely break 0°C during daytime, in fact the warmest temperature we’ve had these past few days…
Nike Run Clinic Session 25
Last night was another “Just do it” session, being somewhat similar to the previous session at Ultra. We thought that it was an “unloading” or recovery session based on what was listed on the Nike Run Clinic site. We started with some new routines so we thought that it was the course of the session…
LSD with Takbo.ph
Last Sunday being my last weekend here in the Philippines (for February at least) I decided to do an LSD one last time, before finally heading off to Ohio, USA. I’m uncertain if I can do my regular weekend runs there being winter and all so just to play safe in increasing my mileage I…
RP’s Last Weekend in RP
This weekend would be my last weekend here in the Philippines, temporarily at least. I’ll be off for the USA for some business trip and be away for almost a month, thereby missing a lot of good races. It should be interesting since it would be my first time in another continent, add to the…
Nike Run Clinic Session 23
“If you think running is difficult, stop thinking.” I could probably describe last night’s session with this quote. Just thinking about doing 5x800M with a pace of 3:45/800M ±15 seconds was tiring enough, so I just said to myself, “Just do it!” (Now I think I understand where Nike got this slogan.) Together with some…
My EDSA Tour: GF405 Perspective
Here are the GF405 data I accumulated during my carbon-loading at EDSA last Sunday: Satellite imagery courtesy of Google. As you can see running on “real roads” really tests GF405’s features better than just running on tracks or race courses. And with these tests we can all see that as great a product GF405 is,…
My First 21K: Carbon-loading from MRT to MoA
Today I finally did two things that I really wanted to do: Run along EDSA and do my first half-marathon—all this first day of February. Inspired by Team Bald Runner’s runabout in EDSA (Pasay City to Monumento) and motivated by GF405 I finally amassed some guts to finally do it, even if I had to…
Nike Run Clinic Session 21
Yes I’m still keeping count of the number of sessions, and we’re more than halfway through the entire Clinic program. If you’re wondering why my posts skip a session it’s because I usually am not able to join the Friday sessions of the clinic at BHS (traffic going to Fort Bonifacio on Friday nights are…
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