Team JRunning: The Filinvest City, The Garden City Trail Route: A Trial Run

Thursday, April 18, 2013

The Filinvest City, The Garden City Trail Route: A Trial Run

Trail running is something Swthrt and I have never tried before. For one thing, most of the trail routes accessible to the public are quite far from the metro. Before, there were invitations for us to either join a trail running race or try a new trail route but because of the aforementioned reason we often declined it. So when we received an invitation for a trial run of a new trail route at Filinvest City, the first thing that came to our mind was where will it might be. Knowing Filinvest as a developer, I thought it was another development project by Filinvest outside Metro Manila but to my surprise it was not, it was at Alabang, formerly known as Filinvest Corporate City now re-branded as The Filinvest City, the major urban center, south of Metro Manila.

Swthrt joined the test run of the extended trail route together with other bloggers. She was quite excited and nervous at the same time because it was her first time to run trail and did not know what to expect during the run.

Photo by Bee Yen

Photo by Lestsky Runner

I was envious of them as I took photos of the runners along the route since I was forced to be sideline and not join the run upon my doctor’s order because of my heart condition.

Anyway, I was glad to see the joy in Swthrt’s face as she completed the run. I guess it was really fun running the trail. I hope I can try it soon!

After the run, we joined the other runners eat breakfast, sponsored by the Filinvest City Alabang Inc., at the Palms Country Club. A short presentation of the many upcoming projects and events within the city by Ms. Daphne of Filinvest City Alabang followed.

Summer Events this 2013 will include Running Clinic by Starting Line on May 11, Cross Country Race Series with the Executive Off-Road Racing Association on May 18 and highlighted by the Xterra Off-Road Triathlon Series on May 26.