Run For Home

I’m back from the Globe Run for Home. I’m freakin’ exhausted because of the drive and the run. I have only one photo to show for my efforts – I’ll upload it later – but it’s all good.

Comments:

• Pity the poor people who traveled from all over last July 16-18 to Fort Bonifacio only to be told to claim their race kits on the day itself.
• Pity the poor people who registered for 10k but weren’t able to get race kits.
• Pity the poor people who registered for 5k but got their race kits after the starting gun.
• Thankfully, I got my race kit minutes before the starting gun. Had to assert myself to make it happen – at one point, I debated whether I should just run without the number – but it turned out okay in the end.
• Got a medium singlet. Please, I haven’t been a medium since I was in sixth grade. Gave it to Cathy.
• I didn’t run with the electronic chip. Didn’t want to line up with the thousand other runners in line with it. Had my trusty Nike+ iPod with me to help me anyway.
• My Nike+ iPod isn’t calibrated properly! The 5k registered more than 5.5km on my device. Darn it! Now I’ve got to recalibrate.
• Man, was it hot.
• Final time for 5k was 40:01. Not good, but still better than Race for Life’s 40:58. Considering the lack of training and all that, I’m content.

See you at the next race!

Ain’t no stoppin’ us now

WOOT!

I registered for the 5k. I wanted to do the 10k, but I really don’t think I’m in the best shape for it. Plus, I’ll be leading worship later that day at my favorite Greenhills church, so I didn’t want to be too tired out.

Who’s going?! Who’s going?! I’m one of more than 2,000!

One week to go before “Run For Home”…

… and I haven’t really prepared. Gosh, this is going to suck.

NO! I have one week. If I run 5ks tomorrow and Tuesday, that ought to be enough. Come on!

Who’s joining?!

Another run today

Ran another 4k today. Shaved almost two minutes off my time from the 23rd. Yay for me! Had oatmeal for breakfast. Will have veggie pasta couscous with meatballs for lunch. It’s going to be a good day. I’m feeling the effects of this!

Here’s the goal: 200lbs by July 19, the day of Run for Home. I’m really praying I can run on this day!

Sign up for the Miracle Run!

There are days when I love my job, and there are days when I like my job.

This Sunday is one of the latter days, because I can’t join a run that I really wanted to join.

Men’s Health Philippines is sponsoring a charity race on March 29 called Miracle Run 2009. If they can sign up 1,000 runners who can finish the 10km race, they will donate PHP200,000 to the Tahanang Walang Hagdanan’s “Gulong Sa Pagsulong” Mobility Aid assistance program; they’ll buy wheelchairs for the differently abled. I can’t go because I work on Sundays and will never make it back in time for work. Besides, I love my job!

Please do sign up, though, because it’s for an amazing cause. You run to help those who can’t! The race starts 6:00am at the UP Diliman campus. Sign up at R.O.X. at Fort Bonifacio, the favorite stomping grounds of Metro Manila runners, or register on the Men’s Health Philippines website.