Category: Stories
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This is Part One of my TriUnited 1 2014 race story. I came into the first race of the year the most prepared I’ve been for a standard distance triathlon. That came with an expectation: I can make my personal best time in this race. So I was nervous the night before. Nervous ‘coz I…
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My first race of the 2014 season is this Sunday (Tri-United 1 in Subic). My last race was 8 months ago. So, I’m sitting down and checking my internal temperature and how I am a few days from swimming 1.5k, biking 40k, then running 10k to the finish. I find myself asking some questions: How…
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I did my first triathlon in 2003 on a mountain bike. The race was in Anilao and the bike route went up & down the hills where the dive resorts are and down to the town and back up again to the resorts. By the time I got to the u-turn in the town,…
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I lead a spin class every Monday. About 50 minutes into the one hour ride, we hit the last of four high intensity intervals. Right before they have to stand up off their seats, this part of Simple Mind’s “Alive and Kicking” plays: What you gonna do when things go wrong? What you gonna do…
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My affinity with endurance sports started with walking. When I was 17 I would choose to walk 3 km to mass daily. From our house in Kapitolyo, I’d walk out of the neighborhood, on to Shaw Blvd and walk to St. Francis Church which is near EDSA. I enjoyed that rhythm of walking and finding…
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The year’s first triathlon happened two weeks after I ran the TBR Dream Marathon. I had enough swimming and biking to do the standard distances (and obviously the run wasn’t going to be a problem). But I wasn’t in race shape. So I went to Subic with very little expectation and a lot…
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I was hoping that running a marathon would change some of the challenges in my life or give me superpowers to literally run them over. It didn’t. That’s not what the marathon is meant to do.
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Now, as a parent, I continue the great myth of the guy in red because the myth of Santa taught me important truths that are hard to teach.
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We run in circles if we have to because the effect on our bodies is the same — 2 hours running loops is the same as 2 hours running on open road. And we understand that it’s not only what our bodies do, but where our spirits go that sets us free when we run.
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I think more than anything I’ve done and learned, it has been running that has taught me about pain.
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