ICTUS Centry Run Photos

 

 

We are pleased to announce the availability of all the ICTUS Century Run photos.

You can view, search and order your photos at www.photovendo.ph

Just key in your Race/BIB Number and all your photos will come up.

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We look forward to seeing you at the next race: The Happy Run

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Are you ready for 2009? [updated]

Are ready for 2009?

As early as September of this year, the 2009 Race Calendar has been quickly filling up with race events, namely: The QC International Marathon, Pasig Marathon, Condura Race, and the Botak Paabilisan Series to name a few.

It seems that there really a running boom with events being schedule almost every week. Races are even being held on Saturdays. With more races to choose from, I don’t think runners will have difficulty participating in one. They’d have more difficulty choosing which one they’d join.

To those who are already planning their race calendar for 2009, here are a couple of races handled by Coach Rio you’d surely want to consider:

January 25, 2009
THE HAPPY RUN
3km, 5km and 15km
NBC tent The Fort

March 1, 2009
2nd DOCFIT RUN
5km and 10km (MD and Non MD category)
UP theater UP Diliman, QC

March 8, 2009
RUNew (ASIAN Hospital)
5km, 10km and 15km
Bonifacio taguig

Let’s Join the Cancer Warriors

WHAT: Rotary Club of Quezon City Circle Fun Run
7k and 15k Events

WHY: For the benefit of the Cancer Warriors Foundation

WHEN: 6am, Sunday, December 14

WHERE: SM Fairview (until San Jose Bulacan)

HOW: On Site Registration, 5am

Prizes:
7k Event

1st -  P7,000
2nd – P5,000
3rd – P3,000

15k Event

1st P10,000 and All Expense Paid Trip to Taiwan Full Marathon
2nd – P7,000
3rd – P5,000

CONTACT PERSONS:

Bing Quite 0928-9698028 or 09165122208

I’m a running newbie…AGAIN

Last Monday, the first day of December, was my first day in ULTRA in almost a month. I had been out of the running scene since the Men’s Health Urbanatholon (Nov. 16) and out of training for close to 3 weeks. A friend of mine from the College of Human Kinetics says that inactivity for over 2 weeks makes our muscles forget our training regimen and “goes back to square one.”

As I step foot into ULTRA, I found the track oval deserted. It was declared a non-working holiday and I guess everyone was either at home or out of town for the long weekend. I on the other hand decided to get back on track, pun intended.

NEED TO GET BACK

The week prior, I received a text from Coach Rio saying, “Magtraining ka na tom ah!” He was aware that I haven’t been running at all and so I told him give me till the end of the week and definitely, I’ll start training on Monday. I kept to my word and showed up at ULTRA at 3pm, with no one there so that I could concentrate on what I set out to do… TO RUN, not to socialize, meet friends, or do small talk…. but RUN as I had always done since I started training last April.

I had been sidetracked by a lot of things that I had lost my focus, my discipline and worse, my motivation. Running was supposed to be my outlet from stress and to lose that, it really made me a not-so-likable-always-irritable-agitated-easily-annoyed-grumpy-person. I NEEDED TO GET IT BACK and so I ran.

THE STRUGGLE

I started with 5 laps around the track as warm up. What was usually a breeze for me became a struggle. Had my body forgotten how to run?! My knees were wobbly, I was out of breath and my stride seemed so short. The last time I felt like this was when I started out sometime in January. All the people I had started out with have already left me behind, doing 15ks, 21ks, 25ks and even full marathons while here I am struggling with 5 laps.

STARTING WITH THE BASICS

Prior to heading to ULTRA, I gave Coach Rio a call. “Coach, papunta akong ULTRA ngayon. Ano gagawin ko?”

“Time trial ka ng 1mi, 800m at 400m.”

“May drills?“

“Wala. Time trial ka lang. Rest 15mins in between para may recovery ka”

“Ha? Talaga? Walang drills? Yun lang talaga gagawin ko?”

“Oo, yun lang. Babalik ka pa lang eh.”

And that was our conversation that stuck to my head. It was almost the same conversation we had when I had started, when I was raring to do more and exert myself, and Coach was always cautioning me not to go too fast. I remember him telling me to keep mind the saying, “Too fast, too soon”

I’m raring to get back to where I left off but I think this time around, I’ll take it easy and it do it right