Less blogging and racing, but more running

Tons of work and lots of home chores occupied most of our time during the past weekdays. Less races are scheduled during weekends. Plus the problem with PC and laptop at home also adds up to the reason of less blogging. There was not much to blog but more to run. We had a good run for the past two weeks as part of our training program for the coming QCIM this December. As a matter of fact, we have seen some of our friends also doing their training at UPD on weekends. It was only this week that we missed our weekday runs because of bad weather conditions in the afternoon or evening. Hopefully we will have a good weather this weekend for our long runs.

On less races joined, Swthrt and I have been selective on joining races these days. It was not because there have been no good races but economics would dictate that it will certainly affect our finances. The high cost of registration fees make us think twice before registering. It was a good thing that races scheduled for the year are posted in Takbo.ph which allowed us to pick up races that would fit in to our training schedules. Races would also help us assess our current fitness level as we did in our training.




So, to our running friends, see you on the road and keep on running.

Training and race

For two weeks now I was able to run at least thrice a week. I run easy (Tuesdays and Thursdays) and long runs (weekends) at Fort Bonifacio during the Milo finals and at UP Diliman during the QCIM. I was with Swthrt during the two weekend long runs. Hopefully, our work schedules permit us to do our trainings regularly for us to be able to aim something big next year.

The 1st Quezon City International Marathon was a big success and many records have been broken and many firsts have been written. We should have not miss this, but we did for some unavoidable reasons. This was my first aimed full marathon but unluckily was not able to join it, and yes I was not also much prepared. Likewise, the series of events about the typhoons that hit the metro must have douse of our interest to register. For whatever reason it may be, this race was not really meant for us. Anyway, Swthrt and I did a 15K run within UPD campus on that day. It was a fulfilling run completing out target distance. . Hopefully this would set a pace for Swthrt setting a new PR for the 21K this coming Adidas KOTR. This will be her second half-marathon after the Run for Home.

An unforgettable experience happened before our run. I locked the car leaving the key inside after getting my hydration belt from the trunk. I was a victim of this thing, that I always remind Swthrt not to leave the car key inside the trunk every time I lend it. I guess I need to add Memo Plus to my health supplements, he he he. So as not to ruin our day, we still continued our run and went home with a cab to get the spare car key. Good thing I knew an alternate route going back to UP as most of the road are closed to traffic because of the QCIM being held.

Congratulations to our friends who run and finished the recently concluded QCIM.

See you at the starting line of Adidas King of the Road!