Kenny Rogers' Urbanite RUN – August 15, 2009

Kenny's Urbanite RUN - 5K, 10K, and 15K August 15, 2009 I'm still currently recovering from my last Marathon race and also nursing a minor ITBS injury. Last week I also ran 10K of GLOBE's run for home and got a time of 1hour 18minutes. Well Ok I admit, I only ran 5kms and walked the rest of the wa

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4weeks downtime after 42.195Kms

Motivated with my good newbie marathon time, I was excited and ready to wake up tomorrow morning... (oh my gosh, it's already 12:24AM!) to do an easy run (jogging) since my quads felt OK now, and I'm no longer walking like a toddler. But then I pondered as a newbie marathoner, am I really allowed to

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3:57'30" Newbie Marathoner - I qualified the finals!

3:57'30" Newbie Marathoner – I qualified the finals!

Yesterday was the worst and best race experience of my life. (Pictures courtesy of Doc Marvin, Argonaut, and Beth of takbo.ph) My dad, girlfriend and I had to go to Luneta before 4AM in the morning, but before leaving the house, my diarrhea returned. It seems all those carbo-loading the night bef

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Aray ko! (Ouch!)

Last night when Beth and I were in Makati, we stepped in the wrong bus that we thought would take us to Market-Market to attend Takbo.ph's Carbo-Loading party at "The Old Spaghetti House" restaurant. So we left the bus immediately when this girl behind me who was also leaving the bus landed her foot

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With 3 days to go till Marathon…

...I'm tapering. In less than 3 days, I'll be 30years and 3days old, and I'll be joining Milo's 33rd Marathon. This would be my Marathon debut, and I'll be proud to be called a "Marathon Runner" or "Marathoner". I will then have my certificate laminated on wood and displayed on my office cubicle as

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