Run, Date and a New Challenge

Evening run and a date
Swthrt and I did our regular weekday evening run at Bonifacio High Street last night. Swthrt had a meeting at their Global City branch. We decided to do our 5k at BHS while waiting until 7pm, after the color coding ban. We started our run at around 5:30pm. We did one loop for our warm up before stretching. We then continued our run to complete our goal. We met Eric (Run-4-change) and Dr. Doray (Doralicious), who was introduced to us later, also doing their workouts. We had a short chat with them after the run. After changing clothes, we then proceeded to R.O.X. to register for the VSO run. The night ended with a pre-anniversary dinner date (we’ll be celebrating our 13th anniversary on November 4th). We initially planned to have a dinner at Claw Daddy but also being pasta lovers we were also enticed to dine at Italianni’s Restaurant (which is located across Claw Daddy). Finally, the Italian blood in us prevailed, hehehe. We have Penne Arrabiato (Penne pasta with mushrooms, tomatoes and fresh basil in a spicy peppered-vodka sauce) and Angel hair spaghetti Mediterraneo (with fresh tomatoes, artichoke hearts, black olives and oven-dried tomatoes. Seasoned with basil in a white wine sauce) and hot peppermint tea with lemon. It was a wonderful dinner date.



Time to move up
I have been contemplating on joining a 15K race for the past few weeks. I finally made up my mind last night. After our 5K run at BHS, Swthrt and I went to R.O.X. to register for the VSO Bahaginan Race. I bravely registered for the 15K event while Swthrt, who was hesitant to join, because she wanted to run with a buddy to pace her, opted for the 5K. I guess, she just can’t resist the excitement of joining a race so even with or without a pacer she registered, ha ha ha. This distance will be a new challenge for me. My longest run during my workouts was 12K. My longest race is 10K, which I did it four times with a PR of 1:05. I know it will only be a 3K more to complete it, but still it is 3K, he he he. As I have done before, I will try to run the 15K distance this weekend to simulate the race and hoping to gain confidence. There’s no turning back for me now, this will be another first for me. See you runners at the starting line.