Category: Stories
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August 13, 2012. 10:20 AM This triathlon season was more serious for me. I needed to get back in the game after a year of being off. I also needed to prove something to myself: I wanted to do the half ironman (70.3) distance more confidently than I did the first time. And somewhere underneath,…
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It’s good to get scared now and then. It’s good to get the kind of scared that goes down to your bones — you’re alone, and no amount of friendship, personal achievement or money can buy you out of this kind of fear. I think this kind of scared, keeps us grounded and a little bit…
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I had lunch with a friend yesterday, and we surprisingly found ourselves also talking about more than just work and the triathlon. He said there was a time that nothing could bother an inner calm he had. People would be panicking around him, and rather than the knee-jerk reaction of confrontation, he could take this…
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At 20 years old I had this great of idea of writing a book. I was a philosophy major and I thought I had “deep thoughts” that were worthy of seeing print. Of course I didn’t know what the book would be about or how it was going to go… until I read Robert Fulghum’s…
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In all these roles the most important lesson I’ve learned is to waste time.
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Teaching, maybe much like parenting, is an investment activity and an exercise in hope.
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I suspect that sometimes we go out and lace our shoes so that we can run into the things that bug us rather than run away from them, to engage them more fully rather than avoid them.
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I was lucky to have been given the chance to film and tell the story of the 2nd running of The Bull Runner Dream Marathon (http://thebullrunner.com/2011/03/21/part-1-dreams-can-come-true/). From behind the lens, here are some of the images that stayed with me as we followed 312 who were running after their marathon dream: At about 30k into…
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A good friend recently took up running. She lives in Baguio and decided to make the EDSA Run her first official running race. Here’s what she wrote about her experience: Reflections on the EDSA Run: “For some strange reason, I found myself crying a few minutes after I crossed the starting line of the EDSA…
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Since there were a lot of post recently inspired by the EDSA Run, I thought finishing the story was a good idea. I didn’t plan to run that day. My plan was to take videos in the beginning and maybe walk the course in reverse to catch the finish. After the start, Drew invited me…
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