After having my favorite meal for dinner at Mang Inasal, I had my body massage at the Riviera Spa in Iloilo City and hope to have another body massage later this afternoon somewhere in Makati City.
My staff told me that my race packet had already arrived in my quartets in Fort Bonifacio yesterday.
For finishing another 100 kilometers in my “1,000K Club”, I had a brief shopping activity before dinner last night. I bought an Adidas singlet which was “On Sale” at 50% discount at SM City, Iloilo City and I plan to use it tomorrow’s 10K run. I paid P 370.00 for it. I bought also another earphone clip from Phillips which is also cheap from the SM Appliance Store which is more “sleek” than the Sony Viao Earphone that I wore during the OYM 10K Run. It costs me P 540.00. Lastly, I bought a 3-pack athletic socks from Puma which costs me P 229.75.
Not knowing the route of the race, I will stick to my race strategy of an even pace throughout the race. According to Mark, an even pace of 4:54 mins per kilometer will give me a finish time of at least 48:00 minutes for the 10K distance. I hope I will be able to sustain the speed and will be able to validate my preparations in the hills/mountains in Jamindan, Capiz.
Hoobastank, Linkin Park, or Led Zeppelin are the choices for my MP3 music and we’ll see the effect of music if it will result to a better running time.
I am using my old reliable ASICS Gel-Cumulus 8 running shoes as it is lighter than the ASICS Gel-Kinsei 2. I will be posting a shoe review on my observations on the ASICS Gel-Kinsei 2 in the coming days.
As I promised to myself, I am going to use my Nathan Water Belt and intend not to stop in any water station.
Lastly, I need to sleep early tonight.
To my fellow runner, see you tomorrow at The Fort. You know already the “drill” before the race. Relax & Finish the Race. Good luck.
To the other runners joining the Ateneo & 94K Weekend Runs, good luck!
Bald Runner 
Hi Br,
The 4:54 pace is only for tempo run pace when training and that is based on your projected 10km finish. Tempos really arent supposed to be race pace, just enough to reach that point to improve fitness. There’s some V02 explanation to this (read it somewhere) and why its a minimum of 20 minutes per session. Those running marathons do 2 sessions with rest in between once a week. I think they go up to 10k per session. Baka pang elite na ito but thats what I heard they do sa mga runners at ultra.
To actually finish the 10km in 48 minutes, you have to get an average pace of 4:48/km. I measured the course and verified it with the mapsource and sporttracks. Following the exact route (start outside Anta and ending there), it came out at 9.70 kilometers. I believe the 5km route is short as well but I didnt verify this with the 305. The toughest part would be the 1km “uphill”. Its starts as soon as you make a right coming from the Philippine Public Safety College (see map) Its a steady almost 40 meter elevation. In subic, it was a consecutive 40 60 60 40 hilly part so I guess we’ll manage.
So finishing time for the 9.7k race should be 46 mins, 34 secs based on your 10k 48 mins target.
Good luck to our personal targets tomorrow and let’s hope the weather’s cooler : )
A runner’s creed:
“I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall do my best.”
—Ken Doherty
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