intelligent ways to improve running
I just received an exciting information of from my favorite Cable TV Channel, National Geographic Channel, they will be organizing a road race on April 18, 2010 in SM Mall of Asia. The cause is to support solution designs against Global Climate Change in developing countries. Sounds quite promising
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After I finished my Condura 21K last Sunday, I remembered how it feels more satisfying to race longer distances. So I've decided to start training for the marathon this week. With my current 21K time, the McMillan's calculator estimates my Marathon Time to be 3:42, if I train well. Not bad. When I w
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We all know that just to finish a marathon (or even a half-marathon) is a big lifetime accomplishment. When you do finish a marathon, you know you're no longer an ordinary runner, and far from being called a "Jogger". But if then if you do finish one, what's next? Should your next step be running an
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Thank you Jinoe Gavan and Brando Losaria for the pictures! Sorry dear readers, I haven't been blogging for the past few weeks, have been busy trying out new things--Playing Guitar and Ping Pong. This ate a lot of my non-running time that I couldn't find enough time to blog. However for the past f
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Patrick Concepcion texted me this morning about the Philippine Star newspaper ad in page A-26, about their race this February 7th, 2010: [caption id="attachment_1558" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="(i2runner is in takbo.ph black singlet)"][/caption] Wow, it's my first time for me to be i
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It took me a while to decide what goals to aim for this year. Now last year, I believe I have been ambitious for my actual abilities and though I did accomplish them, I have really suffered at the latter part of the year with injuries. I learned my lessons the hard way. 6months after the marathon, I
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I got a little confused searching takbo.ph's racing schedule because the Mizuno Run was removed. Then I looked at facebook, it seems that they moved the race to April 2010. Now here is the official information from Mizuno (Tha dates are quite easy to remember 1.10.10, and 4.11.10). I think I'll sche
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In order to run a faster 5K someday, one of takbo.ph's speed king Ritchie Alava advised me to buy racing flats. Shoes that first came to my mind were adizero rocket, RC, PRO, and mizuno ronin and musha. These racing flats look really hot and light, but they also look like I could only wear them fo
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Today is my 2nd year anniversary of consistent running (except for the ITBS, which should lessen it to 1.5years) and have celebrated it with a new 5K PR in the Phil Star Celebrity Run. I was aiming to beat Luis aka Gingerbreadrunning’s time of 22’50”. Why? Because he used to be a really slower
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Last Friday while chatting on takbo.ph’s shoutbox, “Winceth” (Patrick) asked a question on how to edit the data taken from garmin. Then “Crashandburn” (Neil Barrios) informed us that we could actually open Garmin’s data from Garmin Training Center® by first exporting a run or workout an
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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...
