intelligent ways to improve running
When I started running last Sunday, September 27th, approximately 24hours after the Ketsana (Ondoy) Typhoon struck the whole of Metro Manila, I saw a lot of flood victims on the street still trying to clean their homes. Some of the houses were below street level, so the flood that was once road-leve
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Am I nuts to even attempt this? Not really. Because of the dreaded ITBS since the Milo Marathon, I haven’t been running a lot as much as I should or wanted to. I’ve counted the days turn to weeks, and weeks turn to months. I’ve gained weight – at least 5pounds, and a little depressed insid
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Running involves a combination of aerobic (oxygen-powered) and anaerobic (absence of oxygen) activities. Our running muscles have two types of fibers, the “Slow-Twitch” and the “Fast-Twitch”, which are randomly mixed depending on our genes. Fast-Twitch muscles are generally more powerful (a
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Ondoy Typhoon Struck the whole Metro Manila yesterday without warning. PAGASA had no idea the rain was going to be this heavy, as they said they didn't have the "doppler radar" that should be capable of measuring rain volume in advance. So my question is, why do we still have PAGASA--what's their us
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Jinoe of takbo.ph and Vinz of vinzph.com liked the content of my blog about running so much that they offered to improve its layout or "theme". How could I resist, they're the expert in the field, just look at takbo.ph. Now look at my blog--they really did a great job and now I think it just looks
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Yesterday I was planning to run from home to the ROTARUN organized by takbo.ph. It was a little under 10Kms to go to the Fort, and my ITBS would probably limit my run to only 10Kms. So I decided to go there and then maybe wait for the takbo.ph people there. On my way there, I was able to cross the r
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Just saw the news in the German channel DW-TV, Haile Gebrselassie just finished and won his 4th straight Berlin Marathon in 2:06'08", so there's no new World Record. His previous marathon WR was 2:03'59". Unfortunately, Duncan Kibet wasn't able to run his pace close enough due to relatively warmer s
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Mizuno's Marketing Officer, Miss Jai Cortes, offered me to review their Precision 9 model. Having used the older Precision 6 model before, I knew this was a great performance training shoe--something that's going to help me train faster and even use for racing faster marathons. First Impressions
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adidas King Of The Road 2009 - October 25, 2009 Fort Bonifacio Global City Adidas has already announced their race to be held next month on October 25, but what you may not realize is that the real race for most Adidas fans is the start of the KOTR registration on Monday - September 21, 2009 - a
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I just passed the New Balance store in Festival Mall last night and saw a new nice pair of running shoes, the New Balance RC769. I needed to photograph them right away. To be honest, I used to think most NB shoes look geeky and bulky, lacking in passion in fashion. But when I looked closer, the mat
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This is the second part of my Nike Lunar Glide Review where I will share my experience on actually using the shoes durin...
Yesterday was the worst and best race experience of my life. (Pictures courtesy of Doc Marvin, Argonaut, and Beth of tak...
Am I nuts to even attempt this? Not really. Because of the dreaded ITBS since the Milo Marathon, I haven’t been runni...
