A Php 500 Marathon? Does a Unicorn really exist? Is Bigfoot alive?
- 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.
ULO NG APO MARATHON: Basag na Tuhod
"Basag na tuhod!"
A fellow runner blurted out to me as we crossed paths along the rolling hills into the Iram resettlement area. With a lithe built and long legs, he looked like a veteran runner that eats long distance runs for breakfast, but the use of these words and the exasperated tone of his voice belied the image. The marathon course had defeated him and only a sliver of his pride was keeping him from quitting the race. At that point in the backroads of Iram settlement area, we still had roughly 10 kilometers to go before we finished the full 42 kms . He then added - "Parang Ultra ito. Hindi marathon." Such was the rigorous affair that is the Ulo ng Apo Marathon. It inspired dread and respect among majority of its marathon participants. Save for a sprinkling of elite runners, many did find the route very challenging.
RUN FOR JOJIE: Coming Together for a Comrade in Sole
"No one fights alone! Together we ran for Jojie."
These are words printed on the main tarpaulin in the SM Naga front yard as the fun run called "Run For Jojie" was underway on that breezy Sunday morning of June 30. Truly, at that point in time, Jojie was not alone as there were more than a hundred runners present and raring to start in a fun run named after him. Maybe even a canine or 2. Certainly, a ton of runners came out to show their solidarity for a fellow addict of running. A comrade in sole, so to speak.
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