I was out of town last Monday and Tuesday and had a complete rest from my running. But as soon as arrived in Manila, I immediately hit the ULTRA oval track on the early morning of Wednesday with an easy run with a distance of 12.5 kilometers in 1:14:31 hours. It was another 30-lap run for the day.

What is worth mentioning in this blog on this particular morning workout was my coach’s initiative to introduce me to a fellow runner, Mr Leo Valdez, who is popularly known as “The Engineer” of the worldwide known stage play, “Miss Saigon” and an outstanding singer and recording artist. I’ve been seeing him doing his running workout almost every day at the ULTRA Oval Track and there was no chance for us to be introduced to one another as both of us were busy with our respective training. During our brief conversation, I congratulated him for making the Filipinos proud and known worldwide because of his superb acting in “Miss Saigon”. I even told him that we were both runners & marathoners during the 80’s when Mr Elpidio Doroteo and Jun Castro were the popular Race Organizers of road races in the country. And such recollection of our past running experiences made our conversation more interesting. I hope to see more of him in the coming days at the ULTRA Oval Track. “Mr Engineer”, you make us proud and hope that you will be blessed with more shows to come! Keep on running!

At 5:30 PM, I was back at the Oval Track with a plan for a faster pace. I did another 30-lap run with a distance of 12.4 kms in 1:07:51 hours. After my usual post stretching, my workout for the day was done.

I was able to cover a distance of 24.9 kms for the day.