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A running streak is what I have
started this holiday season. 
- BP
- I am a Bicolano by birth and choice. By any standards, I am a slow runner but I like it that way. I look at running as a healthy and exciting way to make a difference. Together with my fellow runners from our family, school, office, and the community, we use running to give back.
37th NATIONAL MILO MARATHON FINALS: PB for Bob
December 8 saw the running of the 37th
National Milo Marathon Finals in the national capital of our country. 7 ELEVEN RUN 1000 : Registered Already
Last week, thanks to the help of
fellow running blogger (www.wanderingjouster.com), I was able to register
already for the half marathon of the 7-Eleven Run 1000 scheduled for January 19,
2014 (for more details please refer to http://www.run711.com/).
2013 SCMS: Bitoy Bags 3rd Marathon
At the same weekend that six
83neans were tackling the Lake Bato Ultra, our classmate Jun "Bitoy" Lorico was
gunning for his third full marathon.LAKE BATO ULTRA: Matira ang Matibay, Matira ang Bato
"The flesh is willing; it is the
spirit that is most often weak."
TWO STUDIES ON CHILDREN AND EXERCISE
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"Playground awaits" Artwork
courtesy of Marcel
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Browsing thru the BBC website one
weekend this month, two articles caught my attention.TRYING OUT GREEN
Yesterday, November 24, saw the
blue-loving 83neans garbed in green tops
for our training run inside Camp
Aguinaldo. TYPHOON YOLANDA RELIEF: Doing Something to be of Help
My favorite blogger, the Bull
Runner, puts it succinctly – "We’ve all
seen the devastation brought about by Typhoon Yolanda. It is horrifying,
saddening, and painful to watch. So, instead of just watching, let’s use
running to help out. One run can help thousands of lives."GIFTS ON THE 2ND ANNIVERSARY OF THE BICOLANO PENGUIN BLOG
November 5 marks the second year of
existence of our Bicolano Penguin Blog. 1ST WEST COAST 200K SINGLE STAGE (WC200SS) ULTRA MARATHON RACE: Top 5 Finish
200 kilometers in 48
hours or less in a single stage from Subic Freeport, Olongapo City to Alaminos,
Pangasinan. This is the daunting
challenge the WC200SS Ultra offered. Just thinking about the magnitude is
making me thirsty. RIZAL TO LAGUNA ULTRA: alagang run mania
Orgullo y alegra. Pride and joy. Twin emotions our collective core basked in as we cradled our
finisher trophies at the Rizal to Laguna (R2L) ultra marathon last October 27.A RUNNER’S CIRCLE SHIRTS FOR LAKE BATO ULTRA
Our favorite
running store in Manila gifted the participants (expected at 20 runners) of the
Lake Bato Ultra with cool red running
shirts. 
HOKA MAFATE 3 : Rugged Paradise
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| Trekkers entering Cirque de Mafate (Photo courtesy of Louise Southerden) |
Cirque de Mafate is a volcanic
caldera region on Reunion Island, a French territory in the Indian Ocean.2ND BICOLANO PENGUIN ANNIVERSARY RUN: Lake Bato Ultra (11.02.13)
The Bicolano Penguin running blog is turning 2 years old
this month of November.LAKAW DALAGAN PARA KI INA: A Community in Action
"Ex abundancia cordis os loquitor"
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| The crowd gathering in front of the church |
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| Location of Bombon |
Latin words which means from the abundance of the heart the
mouth speaks. TRACK AND FIELD CLUB
Mid-afternoon, a lad clad in blue
cantered along Masterson Drive trailed by another in white. In front of
the Church of Gesu, like clockwork, the
lads made the sign of the cross without breaking stride. Their faces showed youthful exuberance, perhaps induced by endorphins from the run or buoyed by their natural
propensity for fun. LAKAW DALAGAN PARA KI INA: October 5, Bombon
The Church of the Nuestra Senora
del Rosario is the parish church of Bombon, Camarines Sur. One of the
remarkable churches in the Bicol Region, it has a leaning bell tower. It evokes
a rich history of our Diocese of Nueva Caceres.ONE RUN ONE PHILIPPINES: October 6, 2013
One Run One Philippines is a fun
run for the benefit of various environmental advocacies in the country. It is
a simultaneous eco-run in Quezon City,
Cebu, Bacolod, Davao and Los Angeles that calls for the protection of various
environmental advocacies in the Philippines. HOKA: Versatility to the Max
At our trek to the foothills (300
meters above sea level) of Mt. Makiling for our tree planting
(http://bicolanopenguinswonderlog.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/tree-planting-at-mt-makiling/),
I used my Hoka Stinson Evo Tarmac. T2K: One Big Fiesta of an Ultra
645.This is the figure posted by
the organizer in its website (http://runmania.ph/) as the number of "pavement warriors" that ran
in the Tagaytay to Kawit 50-km race held in the weekend of August 24-25.
QUMR 70KM Race Report: Proxy Edition
Blogger’s Note:
Coming into August, I had the valiant idea of
registering for a 70-km ultra marathon in the 1st congressional district of the
big province of Quezon. It was called QUMR and was scheduled for August 18, a day before the anniversary date of the
great war-time Philippine President, Manuel L. Quezon. I did register for the QUMR70 and managed to convince
another 83nean, Ernie Badong, to join me. By that time, I was already in
training mode for the Tagaytay to Kawit (T2K), a 50-km ultra happening a
weekend after QUMR. Going for
back-to-back ultras added pressure to the
training runs. More long slow distance
runs were needed. Now from the valiant, this became a crazy
idea as the runner was exposed to the unwelcome possibility of muscle fatigue or
much worse, injury. And the muscle fatigue set in on the weekend
before the QUMR70, as I went for a 28-km and a 25-km LSD. I could not
risk aggravating it into an injury and sideline myself for the T2K. I
promised a running buddy that I would be
a pacer at the T2K, her first taste of an ultra. Thus, my decision to forego
the August 18 race. Good thing, another 83nean, Bob Castilla,
agreed to take my place and teamed up with
Ernie in conquering the QUMR70. Hence, this Proxy report by Bob (with additional commentary from Ernie
in italics). 
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| Bob in full stride amidst the rural setting of QUMR70 |
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