Being my first International Marathon Race since I started running in the early ’80s, I was able to preserve the Finisher’s T-shirt of the Inaugural Infantry Marathon held in Fort Benning, Georgia on the third Sunday of January 1984.
Hereunder is the picture of the shirt which I placed in a frame. The back of the shirt is printed with the Badge of the Infantry with the words “Follow Me”.
17 December 2007 (PM Run)
After one week of no runs on the road, I am back this afternoon for an easy run along the 2-mile route in the hills of Jamindan. I started my run at 4:30 PM and finished at 6:10 PM.
After 20 minutes of stretching, I started with one mile warm-up at 9:00-minute pace. The following are my time/s every round of the 2-mile route:
1st round—17:50 minutes @ 8:55 mins per mile
2nd round–17:20 minutes @ 8:40 mins per mile
3rd round—16:40 minutes @ 8:20 mins per mile
4th round—18:50 minutes @ 9:25 mins per mile
5th round—20:13 minutes @ 10:06.5 mins per mile (cool down round)
I ran a total distance of 11 miles or 17.6 kilometers in 1 hour, 39 mins, & 53 seconds. My average pace was 9 minutes & 4.8 seconds per mile or 5 minutes & 40 seconds per kilometer.
For the moment, I will concentrate on endurance/aerobic phase of my training along the 2-mile route and strengthen my leg muscles through workouts in my mini-gym & hill workouts here in Jamindan.
If you want to train better and more focused, race faster and smarter, and improve your running form, you should be able to read and do the Lydiard’s Method. Take note of his hill training workouts and drills!
Just some words of caution, it takes a lot of patience, perseverance, commitment and dedication to follow his training. It takes years to build-up and balance aerobic and anaerobic capabilities of the runner’s body and be able to naturally develop the most relaxed running form.
Good luck and keep on running!
As the Project Director of the DND-AFP “Gintong Pangarap” for Marathon and Chairman of the DND-AFP “Gintong Pangarap” Running Club, Inc., I would like to extend my thanks and appreciation to those who participated in the 6th DND-AFP “Gintong Pangarap” Marathon Team Relay on the 16th of December 2007 at the Bonifacio Naval Station, Fort Bonifacio, Metro Manila.
To those teams and their members who won in their respective categories, congratulations and we hope you were able to achieve your desired goals and objectives in this team relay race. Despite the preparations we made, it is still unfortunate that we made some “lapses” on administrative requirements. We are very sorry…
To those team members who won and were not able to receive their medals during the awarding ceremony, you will receive your medals and will be delivered in your respective address within this week.
We hope to see you again on the 7th DND-AFP “Gintong Pangarap” Half-Marathon Race on 17 February 2008.
Thanks and Congratulations! Keep on running!
The following is the result of the Top 20 Male runners of the 24th RUNNEX 10K Executive Classic Race held at the UP Campus last 02 December 2007:
Name Age Time
1. Apolinario Reyes 36 41:08
2. Wilfredo Enriquez 43 41:55
3. Graciano Santos 41 42:46
4. Roberto Manzano 45 44:30
5. Rafael De la Rosa 41 45:10
6. Julius Magpayo 45 45:19
7. Tommy Tan 56 45:46
8. Roderick Racho 46 46:15
9. Benjamin Teodoro 49 47:06
10. Leonardo Villafania 49 47:31
11. Mark Parco 40 47:35
12. Fernando Montiel 56 47:56
13. Jun Martinez 42 48:18
14. Ryan Denosta 33 48:22
15. Ronaldo Celestial 38 49:11
16. Ernie Ledesma 67 49:28
17. Manuel Rayco 40 51:08
18. Norman Ranon 32 51:12
19. Dennis Mascardo 34 51:14
20. Gregorio Torres 52 51:36
I would like to express my gratitude and thanks to those who had visited and regularly visiting my blog for the past 50 days since I started writing about running. My blog registered 2,000 hits yesterday morning.
Writing this blog motivated me to seriously go back to running again!
To all the runners, keep on running!
The following is the Top 2o Female Results of the 24th Executive Classic 10K Race held at UP Campus on 02 December 2007:
Name Age Time
1. Cheryl Bihag 34 52:52
2. Valerie Sanvictores 34 54:31
3. Lei Policarpio 30 54:38
4. Oona Mapua 30 56:06
5. Elaine Yap 27 58:38
6. Cecil Morella 45 1:00:20
7. Daniw de Leon 23 1:00:22
8. Sherry San Pedro 31 1:00:24
9. Aileen Limboy 27 1:01:54
10. Jennifer Yrasuegi 25 1:02:49
11. Tisha Generoso 35 1:05:27
12. Monica Ley 27 1:08:14
13. Ruby Allas 40 1:09:25
14. Roselle Dadal 36 1:10:05
15. Maui Sugay 26 1:11:07
16. Mary Rose Obispo 36 1:12:49
17. Jeremie Jaramilla 25 1:14:01
18. Christine Bandol 34 1:14:19
19. Mariphine Requijo 31 1:15:43
20. Marie Casereo 45 1:17:07
I requested for an extension of leave after my schooling in Fort Benning for me to be the “baby sitter” for my kids and “driver” to my wife from May 1984 up to three months and got the chance to watch the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games.
During weekends and on my wife’s “days off”, I would join local road races from 5K-10K in cities near Los Angeles. Sometimes, I would travel 80-90 miles east of Los Angeles to the Lake Perris Skydiving Center for Skydiving every other weekend.
In the local road races, I’ve been winning trophies and medals in my age category (30-35 years old) which I show and brag to my wife and to my kids once I get home.
One time after attending one of the races, I got hold of a flyer of a 10K run whose route/course was a few blocks away from the house. I was enthusiastic to register immediately knowing that the course was almost the same route where I had my regular running practices and I was very familiar with the terrain.
On race day, I usually stay at the back of the pack and didn’t mind looking or staring at other runners. So, when the race started, I slowly squeeze my way into the middle of the pack and started looking at runners while passing at them. I observed that the men were good-looking and had nice bodies and most of them are in pairs. While the ladies were running like men and have nice bodies.
Little did I knew that I joined the Gay Pride 10K Race for the City of Los Angeles!!! My wife and my young kids were laughing at me after I told them that I joined and finished the said race. I felt embarassed and just told them that all I wanted was to run, don’t miss the chance to run a road race within the neighborhood and maintain my physically fitness.
Bottomline? I was too naive to ignore what the race was all about. The gays I’ve seen in this race were decent-looking guys and very athletic that you could hardly notice that they are such. They are strong and fast runners, too! Well, I did not bring home any trophy or medal on this race.
The gays and the lesbians beat me this time!!!
Eduardo Buenaventura and Jo Ann Banayag of the Philippines won Bronze Medals in the Men’s and Women’s Marathon, respectively, in the 24th Southeast Asian Games held in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand on 09 December 2007.
Ed “Vertek” Buenaventura’s time was 2:27:21 hours while Jo Ann Banayag’s time was 2:44:41 hours which is a new RP record time.
The Gold Medal in the Men’s Marathon was awarded to Yahuza Yahuza of Indonesia who finished in 2:23:46 hours. The Women’s Marathon Gold Medal was awarded to Sunisa Sailomyen of Thailand with a time of 2:43:33 hours.
At last, “running/runner’s chips” are here in the country! I just read an article in one of the daily newspapers about the conduct of the “New Balance Power Race 2007: The Next Level” held last 11 November 2007 at Clark Freeport where RFID Timing Technology or popularly known as “runner’s chips” were used by the runners.
These are three famous systems in the market today on RFID Timing Technology: “ChampionChip”; “Winning Time USA” & “AMB”.
This “chip” initiates the start of the runners’ time from the start line and registers the lapsed time once a runner passes through the finish line. The start & finish lines are equipped with antenna/transponder which is covered by a mat/rubber carpet. The antenna/transponder activates the “runner’s chip” once it passes through the mat/carpet. It is imperative that each runner should not pass the start line before the firing of the gun! This will discourage runners from “cheating” at the start line or along the route as more transponders could be placed to measure time splits every 10 kms/miles.
Shown below are the pictures I’ve taken with my runner’s chip I used in the Inaugural City of Angels Half-Marathon last 03 December 2006. This chip is from ChampionChip!
I hope to see these “runner’s chips” in all the local road races and marathon races in Metro Manila/Subic/Clark soon!
Bald Runner
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