Finalists for the 2009 Philippine Blog Awards – Best Sports Blog

 

i2runner.com was lucky enough to qualify for the 2009 Philippine Blog Awards Finalists (this time I didn’t injure myself). So I would like to thank the PBA for appreciating this site, it’s an honor just to be included in your Finals! However being the only blog about Running in the list, I feel quite pressured to represent our sport. But I take this pressure as a challenge to improve this blog to the next level and hope the readers would keep coming back and would learn a lot for themselves.

All of the blogs that made it to the finals are really good–well written, entertaining, and are about popular spectator sports like Basketball and Boxing. However I would like to emphasize and take pride that we runner-bloggers write more about our own personal experiences–racing, training, injuries, hardships, endeavors, challenges, celebrations, love, sport and life of running. Our personal blogs are therefore sincere, realistic, pure, inspiring, and perhaps challenges readers to be more competitive with themselves or with other runner-bloggers.

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Here are the links to the finalists:
Buhay Basketball
Fire Quinito
i2runner
Lakers Today
Philippine Basketball Blog
Philippine Boxing
Sports and Tech sa Pilipinas
The Duffer

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Comments (24)

 

  1. alaskarunner says:
    October 5, 2009 at 12:57 am

    Congrats Natz!

  2. Jayson says:
    October 5, 2009 at 2:43 am

    Congratulations i2runner!!
    Best of luck to you on the PBA Finals. And on your Milo Marathon this Sunday. Will you still run despite of the ITBS? Good luck ulit. :)

  3. i2runner says:
    October 5, 2009 at 3:30 am

    Sir Rafael – Thanks and thank you for always visiting my blog. Please text me when you arrive here in Metro Manila. :-)

    Sir Jason, Thanks, hey I like your blog, it looks technical and witty :-) we can learn a lot from you, from running to boxing. I’m not sure if I could join the Milo Marathon, I lost a lot of endurance due to 3months downtime. I’m thinking of joining the takbo.ph support group for the Milo Finals.

  4. Bald Runner says:
    October 5, 2009 at 4:44 am

    natz, congratulations! frankly speaking, our running blogs are better than those other sports blog which are just like newspapers. blogs are supposed to be a we(b log)—a journal of your activities and not a site for a messenger or newscaster. keep on writing and running!

  5. knight runner says:
    October 5, 2009 at 5:39 am

    Congratulations and Good Luck!

  6. i2runner says:
    October 5, 2009 at 6:37 am

    Sir Jovie, wow thank you for your kind comments. Our we(b log)s are the fruits of our own sweat and blood. We run long and hard and then write about it and expect nothing in return. Our blogs just keep our running community close together and it actually keeps on growing (now at an unbelievable rate). Which is really great! Now kind blogs like Jonel have even raised funds to help multiple typhoon victims.

  7. i2runner says:
    October 5, 2009 at 6:39 am

    Sir Mark, thanks and good luck to your marathon training as well. I hope you’ll stay injury free :-)

  8. i2runner says:
    October 5, 2009 at 6:40 am

    Sir Mark, thanks and good luck to your marathon training. I hope you stay injury free :-)

  9. Jayson says:
    October 5, 2009 at 7:15 am

    Thanks Natz.. for visiting my site and for finding it informative.. hey, hey.. focus is on you brother.. hehe. Good luck. Hope you could still join the Milo Finals. You really inspired me a lot on your Marathon Debut. :)

  10. ronald says:
    October 5, 2009 at 7:32 am

    lume-level up ka na, hoff! congrats!

  11. dhenztm says:
    October 5, 2009 at 9:38 am

    Woohoo! Congratulations! Pati sa PBA nagpi-PR! :D

  12. i2runner says:
    October 5, 2009 at 2:46 pm

    Ronald, Dennis, thanks and APIR!!!!

  13. Amado L. CAstro, Jr. says:
    October 5, 2009 at 7:58 pm

    Dear Natz – Congratulations! You deserve it Natz. I look forward to see you on Sunday.

  14. i2runner says:
    October 6, 2009 at 1:19 am

    Yes sir, see you on Sunday! :-) Let’s support our athletes.

  15. argonaut says:
    October 6, 2009 at 5:45 am

    Congrats brother…. you’re a promising star!

  16. i2runner says:
    October 6, 2009 at 9:14 am

    I wanna be famous like you bro :-)

  17. Ilani says:
    October 6, 2009 at 12:59 pm

    great blog you’ve got here bespren :)

  18. i2runner says:
    October 6, 2009 at 7:35 pm

    Thank you bespren! Te, ubra man kamo blog ni Rey dira sa Holland. Kadto kamo sa wordpress.com, free lang man na.

  19. runnerforchrist says:
    October 6, 2009 at 8:06 pm

    Hats-off to you, Natz. You deserved it…

    God bless.

  20. junrox says:
    October 6, 2009 at 10:37 pm

    hi natz- congratulations pre.. theres no doubt in my mind you will give the other nominated blogs a good “fight” for this award.

    see you on sunday just in case…

  21. i2runner says:
    October 7, 2009 at 6:53 am

    Ronnie, Junrox, thank you very much. Yeah, those blogs are pretty good, and their write-ups look really professional.

  22. Alfred says:
    October 9, 2009 at 3:04 am

    Congrats Natz!
    See you on Sunday!

  23. i2runner says:
    October 9, 2009 at 2:31 pm

    Hi Alfred, I didn’t win. FireQuinito won the best sports blog. Well that guy is a really good writer. Like a pro! I won’t be running with you elites, but I will be with takbo.ph and Renier Pacific to support the Milo 42K and 21K runners, so see you there! I’ll hand you a gatorade :-)

  24. Alfred says:
    October 10, 2009 at 7:26 am

    Being the only finalist from among all bloggers about running, doesn’t that make you feel like a winner, too?!
    See you tomorrow and I hope to get that Gatorade… :-)

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