A fully loaded weekend workout

We normally do our weekend workouts by starting a Friday nocturnal run at UP. This weekend, we were not able to fit it because of work. Swthrt had to work overtime for her operations review presentation and we have to go to a prayer meeting in our church. To make up for our cancelled workout, swthrt and I decided to run Saturday morning even though we knew that we would be home late (earliest is 12 midnight) because of the meeting. We were right. We arrived home at 1:00 am on Saturday. Before going to bed, we decided to wake up early for our run. We woke up at 5:30am. Prepared ourselves and proceeded to UP. We started our run at around 6:30am. Swthrt was already able to run 5K straight. We did 3 rounds (total of 6.6K) of the academic oval. It was a good easy run for both of us. We went home satisfied and ready to face a busy day ahead. Swthrt needed to do some work at the office. I brought our eldest son, JM for his review class at Commonwealth Avenue. After that, I went to Fort Bonifacio to fetch our youngest son, Josh’s report card. On my way to Fort Bonifacio, I got a text message from my cousin, Kuya Hector that they have already registered for the Adidas KOTR at the Podium. It got me excited and wished that it won’t take me long to get the report card. When I reached the school, I was the 4th parent in line waiting for our turn. The class adviser had to talk to the parents regarding their children’s performance at school. It took almost an hour before I was able to talk to the teacher and got Josiah’s report card. After that, I drove fast on my way to the Podium to register for the KOTR. I was able to register and got my race kit.


I was quite disappointed that I was not able to register swthrt because the singlets for women were not yet available. The lady in charge of the registration told me to return today, Monday. I fetch swthrt before picking up JM. In the evening, we ran again at UP with our friends Louie, Lea and Chiqui. Swthrt did another 2 rounds (4.4K) easy run with them. I did one round at my tempo pace of not slower than 6min 30sec to check on the accuracy on the distance measured by my Nike+ ipod sports kit. The unit recorded a distance of 2.3k After the run, we went to a worship meeting at Mindanao Ave, Quezon City.

We went for another run yesterday, Sunday at UP. Our friend, Chiqui, and my son JM joined us in our run. There was a race sponsored by PMI for their foundation anniversary. We saw Jay (Prometheus Cometh) and coach Rio. Swthrt, Chiqui and JM ran around the academic oval twice (total 4.4k) while I circled 6 times (a total of 13.2k). That was my longest run so far. I’m trying to build up my base. And hopefully and eventually improve my PR on 10k race.


As I was writing this, I got my ipod to check on the recorded data. And to my surprise, all the recorded workouts were deleted. I don’t know what happened. The only record left was the total of 15 workouts with a total distance of 73.58K , and a total time of 8.74hrs. The farthest was 15.1k. That was my Sunday morning run. Maybe, the records were deleted when I tried to calibrate the sensor Saturday night. That’s technology at work, hahaha. It was a product of my ignorance. I guess I just have to go on with the calibration since it already deleted all the records. I wanted to calibrate it because I noticed that it register a longer distance when I ran at a slower pace (below 7min/k). The same is true when I do fartlek. The distance recorded last Saturday night was close to the actual distance because I ran at an average pace of not slower than 6.5min/k. The problem is that I’m not yet able to sustain to run at that pace for 10k. For now it will only be in my dreams, ha ha ha but maybe achievable in the near future. Impossible is nothing. Hehehe.