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takbo.ph 2008 eb

Yesterday was a scheduled 10Miler for me and it couldn’t be any better than running with the takbo.ph peeps in UP Diliman campus. I arrived there  at the Oblation Statue so early at 4:45AM and I think I saw some ghosts and white ladies but the temperature was too cold for me that the ladies’ presence didn’t really bother me. Then Shocks, Ronald, Jinoe and Queenie came and we started running at 6:01AM, just after the race started.

I ran alongside with the site Owner/Admin Jinoe “Manokan Runner” and his sidekick Queenie “Chicks ni Manok” who had nicknames that speak for themselves.  The “Holf” Ronald and “Shocks_5″ ran ahead of us and they were smart to carry hydration backpacks and belts with them. Oh, by the way the UP campus was probably designed for running rather than studying. I can imagine being a student here and being late for my class that I have to run to my classroom. It had the perfect running course for the UP-ICTUS Centennial run, (but I’ve heard the race wasn’t so perfect). Jinoe, Queenie and I chatted in our hiligaynon (ilonngo, not bisaya) dialect and I guess I’m still fluent in speaking ilonggo. We ran at a very easy pace that was off the charts of most training manuals. We ran for 10Miles, but chatting with them made the long run feel easier than most of my daily 6.4Miles.

Afterwards, we had some photoshoot of the takbo.ph peeps and ate free taho thanks to sheerwill. I also received some valuable information about running the marathon from RunUnlimited. I hope to run as fast as he can someday. First thing’s first, build up that 50MPW mileage.

I’ve met a lot of runners that day, so I’ll just mention a few of them: Ronald, Queenie, Jinoe, zixedatz, Shocks_5, OC aka Lauren’s Bro, Rico aka Sheerwill, Quennie, Vener aka Run Unlimited, Lauren, Infinity, Sean William, ChrisMadrigal, Dhenztm, Rene, Carly, and Cathletic. It was also Ronald’s 28th birthday so he treated us for Brunch, which helped our muscles recover from the LSD.

In conclusion, running can be a lonely boring daily activity. To keep one’s sanity, one may need to join forces with other runners who share the same passion – chatting. However, conversations must be kept at an easy “LSD” pace or one may suffer glycogen depletion early in the run.

LSD tough guys: Ronald, Jinoe, Zixednatz, and Shocks_5

Takbo.ph batch 2008: Rene, Ronald, Jinoe, Shocks_5, ChrisMadrigal, Carly, OC, Lauren, RunUnlimited, Dennis, Cathletic, Zixednatz, and Sean Willams.

Free Taho:

Oblation poses: