The mobile phone Company 3, is currently running a competition called “Seriously Social Party”. One lucky group of people will win £25,000 to stage a fantastic party.

This competition has been running a while and they are now down to 25 finalists. Each of these finalists has created a fan page on Facebook. The fan page with the fans on the closing date of 18th November will be the winner.

You can find a list of the 25 contenders for the £25,000 prize at

http://www.facebook.com/pages/3s-Seriously-Social-Party-Competition/33984787548

It’s been while since I had made a post in this blog. So I summarized my runs this past two weeks.

I am preparing for the 25K Run at Clark this November. So I made 3 long runs to make sure I am prepared for it. A long run for me is anything above 10K. And what is an MR? Just read on to find out.

Run #1

I just had a 10K from the OctobeRun last October 26. The distance was too short for the practice. I wanted to run more on the same day but decided to run on Tuesday instead. Tuesday came and it was raining in the morning. I usually get lazy on rainy days. But this one, I just have to run.

I got my running gear plus the running jacket. Finally, I can use my jacket that I bought specifically this type of weather. And since it was raining, I was torn between using the older shoe where I wont care if it gets wet or the newer shoe that I know have better cushioning for the long run. I ended up using the old shoe and got a small blister after the run.

Running in the rain was fun. I would love to do it again. The jacket wasnt good to keep me dry. I still got home drenched and my shoes were soaked. But it least it kept me warm during the run. I would love to run in the rain again.

I had a nice 19.2km run last Tuesday.

Run #2

I normally don’t make 2 long runs in one week. But I found running buddies who wanted to join me early mornings in Makati. The three of us were running the same 25K at Clark and two hour run was the agenda for Thursday.

While I was excited to run with other people, there were differences that I need to adopt. It wont be the usual speed run for me but a long run. So my training plan was a changed a bit. Instead of my earlier 5:30am run, we agreed a 6:00am meeting time.

The run was also a learning session for me as we shared tips on running and experiences. We all hope to get that medal on the 16th.

We had a two hour run and logged 15.2 kms last Thursday

Run #3

I was in Baguio during the holiday break for a youth retreat. I have to say that this will be my last youth retreat as a participant since I can see a big difference in age bracket while I was there. I no longer fancy collecting cellphone numbers as I used to. Hehehe.

Sunday was another long run. I decided to run from Teacher’s Park to Session Road. Thin air. Uphills and downhills. Cold breeze. I can feel how difficult it was in the first few minutes. But after a while, it just became like any other run. I just want to enjoy it.

I must have enjoyed too much moving up and down several times at the Session Road that my shins are now painful. All in all, it was a 16.8km in Baguio.

It’s an MR

This is my late recap of the Octoberun Festival last October 26 at The Fort.

This is the second time to join the OctobeRun. My first time was last 2006. I still have the singlet. For my second time, I’d be running with Quennie. Though she had several 10K already, this will be her first time to run the 10K route at Heritage Park. The big difference is the uphills which will surely give her a new test on running.

As usual, I had to be a her pacer. I dont expect a PR for this run. But I estimate that we finish the run within 1 hour and 20 mins. Before the race we have met some of the Happy Feet members and a few bloggers. We joined Mon, John Ting and Tina going to the Fort. At the starting line, I saw Bards, Jaymie, Prom and Wilbert.

We had a slow start. I wanted her to have enough energy for the hills later on the race. It was working well and we never had to walk on the first 5 kilometers. We reached the turn around point after 35 mins and 56 seconds. We are now far behind those I have mentioned above. But we didnt rush it.

This is what we have prepared for. Going uphill. It will be a tough last 5 kilometers. The first hill is right after the turn around point. We reached it strong to the top. The rest of the hills wasn’t that good. Quennie struggled at the last 3 kilometers She was already tired. Yet still willing to make a good time and minimized the number of times that we walked.

At last, the finish line was less than 1 kilometer ahead. Quennie was eager to make a sprint to the finish line. She increased her pace and we finished it together at 1 hour and 14 minutes. Still this is the fastest time we finished a race together. This is our MR — Mutual Record.

We’re looking forward to a new 10K MR on Sunday at the VSO Kabahagi Ako FUNdraising Run.

The Aftermath

I’m nursing my shins after the three long runs I made. Still doing the R.I.C.E. technique to soothe away the pain. I hope it gets better on Sunday while I make another run tomorrow morning at Ayala.

Next Races

Another busy race month. We’d be running at the VSO Kabahagi Run on Nov 9, New Balance Power Race on Nov 16. And another on on November 23. Looking forward to meet the runners from Takbo.ph and also Wayne, the SFRunner in the races.

For a complete list of running schedules in the Philippines, just visit races.takbo.ph.

The following information is courtesy of TAKBO.PH

I’m registering this week! Woohoo!

New Balance Power Race
November 15-16, 2008
Clark Freeport Zone

Events

November 15 (Saturday) 4:00pm
Kids Fun Run P200 (12 yrs & below)   
5K Open       P250

November 16 (Sunday) 5:30am
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• Planets Sports Rockwell
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• Planets Sports Trinoma
  Level M2 Trinoma, North Ave. Cor EDSA Quezon City
  Tel No 02 916-7451
• Planets Sports V-Mall
  Level 2, V-Mall Greenhills Shopping Center, San Juan Metro Manila
  Tel No 02 727-5985; 02 721-4704
• The Athletes Foot Ermita
  Level 2, Roinsons Place Ermita Manila
  Tel No 02 536-3342 

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Today is the day…the longest race I’ve run since my 25k back in May. My first 10 mile race!! The annual Gazelle Sports Bridge Run.

Am I nervous? Always.

My stomach is fluttering about. Mostly though I’m excited, I’m running with my ladies, I’ve never run this course before, and family members and friends will be scattered along the route to cheer ( and scream) me on.

Hopefully Dominic can keep his eyes open for this race.

It shall be an interesting race. From what I’ve heard the course had to be altered slightly because of flooding. Thankfully, the only remnants of last weekends tropical depression, is flooding here and there.

Off I go, with butterflies jogging in my stomach, a crisp fall breeze whisping outside and the anticipation of my feet smoking the pavement.

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By BEZU at 2008-07-20

Apologies in advance - this is a long post, but I have to do a race report, for four of us, because that’s how many of us ran.  In the pictures below, you’ll see that there is one that includes 3 guys and me.  The tall skinny guy you should recognize as my brother. The guy to his right is Scott, and the guy on my right is Steven, my brother in law.

This was a very interesting weekend! Besides it being July 4th, which was awesome in itself, Bill and I drove over 400 miles to get to the Finger Lakes region of NY state on Friday. There was a slight problem in the logistics of my brother getting there, so we ended up going about an hour out of our way to pick him up in Albany (he was worried that one bus was not going to wait for another, and that they’d be therefore stranded.)

My original plan this weekend was to do my long run as a pacer with Jamie and his friend Scott during the end part of their 50 mile run. You see, the fifty-milers were to run one 15.69 loop 3 times, and then a baby loop of less than 4, that would equal 50 miles. People running the 50K would do that 15.69 mile loop twice, and the people doing the 25K would do it once. The 50-milers and 50Kers would start at 6:30 a.m., and the 25Kers were to start at 8.

When we picked up Jamie and Scott on Friday afternoon in Albany, they were talking about their plan to finish in about 8 hours. They thought that they could even “lap” people if they did it right. At this point, I was starting to seriously doubt my ability to keep up with them and not slow them down, but I was still terrified about running a 25K on my own since the most I’ve run before that was my very cool 11 mile run down on the Cape a few weeks ago, when I ran for 2 hours. However, the race director had also responded to my pacer inquiry email a day before, and said that it might be hard to do just 10 miles with Jamie due to the loop-course. So by Friday night, I decided it might be best for me to try to do the 25K, and just know that I would walk a certain portion of it, and not beat myself up for doing so.  Each of them said “hey, we’re running a distance before that we’ve never run too, so don’t worry about it!”  Um yeah.  Scott has run numerous marathons and 4 ultramarathons before this weekend.  Jamie has run about 10 marathons now and has done one in less than 3 hours.  Steven has been running marathons now as long as I can remember.  So there is a difference - they all have huge running mileage bases!

We ended up getting there so late on Friday night that we didn’t have a chance to scope out the course, but luckily my sister Annie had arrived earlier, picked up our race numbers, and her husband, Steven scoped out parts of it. We found out that most of it in the woods was a single-track course. In case you’re not familiar with what that means, basically there are many places, where even if you wanted to let someone pass, it’d be pretty hard to do so, unless they run off of the trail itself.

Steven’s race report:  So here’s what happened - Steven signed up to do the 50K, but ended up getting a DNF, even though he ran a 25K. Those of you out there who have run trails know that it’s quite easy to turn your ankle on tree roots, or the mud, or rocks, etc. He completely wiped out once - the way he tells it, he had a feeling he was “going down” so he curled up his arm in front of him and literally fell head over heels. He was wearing red Brooks Cascadias (the male version of my bright green ones that you’ll see in the first picture below) and you should see them now - one of them is pretty much completely brown!  On a separate fall, he sprained his ankle, and limped/walked/ran to the end of the course (about 6 miles for him at this point.) He ended up getting his loop done in about 3:40. We figured out that the two of us pretty much run about the same pace.

My race report: To give you an idea of what this race was like - there were about 60 people signed up for the 25K. I immediately went to the back of the “pack” at the beginning. I had my Camelbak filled up with Purple Frost Gatorade (yummy), and about 4 Gus and powerbar gels with me (I wanted to try out some new ones that have more sodium in them, to see if that helps me, energy-wise.) I only got lost once - but there were two ladies who were behind me at the time and I asked them if they thought I was going in the right direction and they corrected me. From then on, I was determined to always keep them in my sights - we introduced ourselves later on at the 4th stop - we kept running with each other in bits and spurts for the entire race, and at one point, when Bill was waiting for me at a point where we crossed over a road, they heard him say “those are the ladies that were ahead of Terri before!” and they shouted back that I was right behind them! And about 20 seconds later, there I was. I saw that Steven was with my family, so at this point, I knew something bad had to have happened with him. I am telling you, some of those inclines in the trails were so steep - if you fell, you would be falling for a VERY long way down. So far, that when Steven saw Bill after he had finished, he asked him “is Terri afraid of heights?” and Bill was like “yep, why do you ask?!” Not a good sign.

I’ll try to make this very long story short - while running through the trails, these are the thoughts that went through my head.

1. Wow, these vistas are pretty. Whycouldn’t the entire course be in the fields like this?
2. I think I am in hell.
3. Why would anyone want to do this?
4. Why would anyone think this is fun?
5. My God, this is a lot of mud.
6. Holy shit, this is a lot of mud.
7. Holy crap, this is a lot of mud. (Are you noticing a pattern?)
8. I better not be walking through poison ivy to get past this mud.
9. Ok, my ankle hurts now from turning it for about the gazillionth time.
10. Holy crap (pun intended), that is a huge cow pie. My God, they are all over the place in this field!
11. I cannot believe it took me 90 minutes to go 5.7 miles. This is going to take forever. So much for the 2:45 or so goal I had in mind.
12. Thank God I don’t have to do this three times.
13. Holy crap, Jamie and Scott have to do this three times. They’re insane.
14. I cannot think of a worse hell than doing this three times. (Are you noticing a pattern?)
15. Thank God my Powerbar gel with 2X the caffeine just kicked in - get me out of these woods!!
16. Hey, that’s my little nephew and Bill at the very top of this hill - if it kills me I am getting to them without stopping! (I did it by the way.)
17. If it kills me, I am going to get to the top of this next HUGE hill - hey, I’m doing it - it’s more like trudging, but I’m moving!
18. I can’t believe that 50K/50-miler is actually sleeping at the aid stop. I wonder if he’s ok.
19. The cool part about running this race is that I could literally eat my way through it. So much good munchies - peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, pretzels, M&Ms (they melt in your hands by the way, as well as the inside pocket of my running shorts), twizzlers, cookies.
20. Heed sports drink is gross. Really gross, I was not the only person to dump mine out (I took it by mistake thinking it was water.) Oh yes, did I forget to say that it looks just like water too?
21. At least I can think about what I’m going to write on my blog to keep my mind occupied while running. I just don’t want to trip and kill myself.
22. There are really nice people involved in this race like those ladies in front of me who caught me from going in the wrong direction and knew I’m now following them for the rest of the race. (Trish and Stacy are angels - we finally introduced ourselves at the 4th aid station.) I’m just going to watch them and follow everything they do.
23. As Karen said about her 5K race, I want to finish this thing with a pulse. Please let my time be under 4 hours.
24. When I saw my husband and nephew standing at the top of a long hill, I thought to myself, even if I have to drag myself to the top, I will not stop until I get to them.  (Bill later told me that he told little 4-year-old Jack to keep yelling at the top of his lungs once they recognized me.  He was so adorable, yelling “GO AUNT TERRI!” over and over.  I gave him a big hug and he hugged me right back.   Bill later told me that he asked Jack “Was Aunt Terri sweaty?” answer “uh huh.”  “Was Aunt Terri stinky?” answer: “uh huh!”  Nice.)  One of the pictures at the beginning of Bubbleshare was taken at the top of that hill. Trish and Stacy are in the background of one of them - they walked all the hills.
25. Thank God for family - it definitely helped to see them when I would come out of the woods at various junctures - at one place they waited for about 20 minutes, saw Scott, asked him if he’d seen me yet, and then they asked the park ranger if Number 188 had passed through yet. Turns out that they had missed me by about 10 minutes.   Bill called my sister Annie, “The Wizard” for knowing just when and where to be to see all of us while we ran.

I finally finished in 3:52:17. Trail running is so much slower than road race running, I have found.  I could have run ahead of Trish and Stacy at one point - I just wanted to be OUT OF THE WOODS, LITERALLY, but I found it safer to run behind them - they seemed to have a good sense  of direction, just like Lis, my running partner.

Race report for my brother - Well, he (questionably) had a Nathans hot dog at a rest stop on the way there - it might have been sitting there for some time before he ate it. We think that may have been what caused his, as Scott called it, “intestinal issues” during the race. I won’t elaborate because he’s my brother - let’s just say it wasn’t pretty, and he was not the only person during this race that had to sneak off into the woods. (It happened more than once that someone just reappeared out of the woods in front of me.)  Bathrooms were a very scare commodity.

We saw him on the 2nd lap around, this would be about 23 miles or so - he looked like he was cramping up and not feeling so good. He asked for gatorade, and since we were close to the bed and breakfast, my little nephew, Sean, showed his track sprinting skills, ran down to the B&B, and sprinted back up with it for his big Uncle Jim. Jamie’s comment - “Sean, you are my hero.”  Uh, Jamie, you are my hero. I told him that during the race, hoping it’d help him keep moving.

On his third lap, we saw him again, and he was looking much better each time. When he thought he had about 8 miles or so to go, he said something like “I anticipate having at least two more break-downs and two more highs in me before the end.” At this point, my sister, who has just started running again, offered to run with him for about 5 minutes into the woods, and he said it gave him a good boost. I think she would have gone further had it not been for her already-wounded husband, and her kids being with all of us.

He also lost his shoe at one point, in the mud. He took a step forward, but it did not. It sounds like Scott was cracking himself up, and he took pictures of it after it happened.  He ended up finishing the race in about 9:45:00.  Pretty friggin amazing if you ask me.

Race report for his friend Scott:  Scott is what Jamie would call a bit of an “endurance junkie.”  We found out he’s done charity rides for the American Cancer Society where he averaged 83 miles per day, from Texas to Alaska.  Before he ran a 41 mile run with Jamie about a month ago, he had ridden his bike about 80 miles. He ran the race in about 9:15:00.  He said that he “trudged” quite a bit at points during the race - trudging is a good word! He stayed with Jamie until he had his “intestinal issues.” 

Jamie and Scott are now thinking that it may be a bit longer until they try to tackle a 100 mile race. With the Western States 100 being cancelled this year, they know that chances of getting into it next year would be slim, as they thought that everyone who was registered to run it this past year automatically gets to do it next year.

All in all, it was a great experience.  Now I know what running in trails really is like, and a race at that. :-)  By the way pictures 5-7 are of me at the finish line. It was at a campsite, in the middle of a national forest. Wow, those running shorts are SO unflattering!

And yes, we were ALL in pain on Sunday - even today, my legs are still sore, so I’m taking tonight off again.  Never plan to drive 400 miles the day after you run that far, trust me!!




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Como citei no post anterior, participei no domingo passado [25/5/08] da prova Corpore 25K na Cidade Universitária da USP. A prova marcou o atingimento de uma meta pessoal minha, a maior distância percorrida em provas: 12,5 Km! Fiquei muito satisfeito.

A prova permitiu a participação individual ou de duplas. Essa última opção foi bem interessante, pois o circuito tinha extensão de 12,5 Km e ambos componentes da dupla deveria correr juntos. Não era revezamento.

Aproveitei a situação e montei uma dupla com o Thyago, co-autor deste blog (em breve fará sua estréia). Foi uma ótima experiência. Correr a prova com seu treinador acompanhando permite que ele passe dicas e orientações “ao vivo”. O treinador desempenha o papel de marca-passo, forçando-lhe a manter ritmo e constantemente lhe desafiando a superar obstáculos.

Meu tempo não foi nada fabuloso mas estou orgulhoso de ter completado.

Corrida Corpore 25Km - 25/05/2008
Faixa etária: M4044
Tempo Oficial: 01:23:10
Classificação Geral: 961/1267 
Classificação Faixa: 123/145
Classificação Sexo: 763/945
Ritmo: 06:39 min/km

Este é o registro do percurso feito pelo pedômetro Nike+ juntamente com o meu iPod. Em futuros posts explicarei melhor como isso funciona e as vantages de usar o Nike+iPod.

Keep running!

Um abração do

Fortes

While walking to the start we were attacked by “Le Grande Fisch”!

After learning the hard way that I was not quite in shape for a long distance race, I grudgingly elected to skip the the 2008 Riverbank Run. I still didn’t want to miss out on the fun of west Michigan’s biggest race - and the 25K national championship - so Amanda and I drove downtown to be spectators.

It’s been a busy week… Usually I like to write comprehensive recaps on this blog but it’s been almost a week since Riverbank already, so in the interest of expediency I’ll make this one a tale told in photos (with captions).

A few hundred of the 13,000 total participants at the Riverbank Run. Here is the middle pack of the 5K just after the race start.

A group of US Marines double-timed the 5K - these guys were awesome! For the entire run they stayed in formation, chanted non-stop, and the guy you can barely see on the far left holding a flag up high would run circles around the formation; he must’ve run a 10K at that rate! The girl in the foreground must be imitating a penguin?

Another impressive 5K runner was Crash, the field mascot for the West Michigan Whitecaps single-A baseball team, who ran the 3.1 miles in full costume!

Brian Kobi of neighboring Comstock Park cruises to a 2nd place finish in the hand cycle division of the 25K.

Both of the above two photos show Jeff Fischer (front) and Alfonso Zaragoza (rear) fighting wheel-to-wheel as they head for the finish of the 25K wheelchair division. Zaragoza would cross the line just one second ahead of Fischer - exciting!

Olympian Brian Sell shows that winning isn’t easy as he blazes to a 1:15:07 finish to win the 25K national title. He was so fast that my camera’s auto focus missed its target! Sell finished third at the USA Olympic Marathon Trials and will compete at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Fernando Cabada, 2006 Riverbank Run winner in an American-record time of 1:14:21, finished 4th overall in 2008 in 1:17:01, but he sure makes it look easy!

Todd Snyder (#42) and Mike Morgan (#38 ) push their way to finishing 5th and 6th overall, respectively. They are two of several runners, including Brian Sell, who represented the Hansons-Brooks Distance Project in fine style. Back in high school I ran cross country and track against Snyder, who attended our cross-town rival. It really wasn’t much of a race - he was clocking sub-16:00 5Ks in CC while I never broke 20:00. Congrats Todd!

Local speedster Kyle Baker (#6) lives right here in Grand Rapids and impressively finished 21st in 1:23:05, but wasn’t able to catch that guy ahead of him - Jonathan Eckberg (#137) crossed the line two seconds faster.

Caroline Cheprkorir remains focused enroute to winning the women’s 25K in 1:29:32. She needed help to stay upright after crossing the line, but she sure doesn’t look that tired here!

Paige Higgins still striding in great form and would finish 3rd in 1:30:49. I should note that all of the elite runner photos starting with Brian Sell were taken on a bridge over the Grand River at the Mile 15 mark, putting these runners a half mile from the finish line.

The squirrel with a death wish - this “nut” case (ha ha!) kept darting across the course on the bridge and TWICE played chicken with two oncoming hand cycle racers! Those guys were very close to turning that squirrel into roadkill - thankfully they took it in good spirits and the spectators a good laugh, too.

After the Mile 15 bride, Amanda and I walked over to the Mile 14 aid station pictured above. We were joined by Michelle Brunken, one of my co-workers who hung out with us on the bridge after she finished running the 10K. Notice the pep band, which would play UM or MSU fight songs whenever they spotted a runner wearing that school’s colors.

Another friend from work, Perry Cheathem (wearing black), cruises through the aid station. Although I tried to spot several friends it was difficult to recognize folks in time to snap a photo, and in fact I missed some of them altogether. Lance Brown, Dave Horne, Lori Gaier and Francine Robinson were spotted but too late for the camera, and I never saw Brian Cunningham, Rich Diefenbach, Erika Kuhnle and Valerie Vander Berg - all of them finished with great times, too!

Another acquaintance I was able to photograph was Don Kern, although I didn’t realize until looking at the photo that Dick Wolters, a co-worker of mine, was running alongside!

It was a great day for a fun race, and hopefully next year my legs will be ready to run it!

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Drew Peterson is offering a twenty-five thousand dollar ($25k) reward for information leading to her safe return. Police consider him a suspect in the “possible” murder case of his wife, Stacy Peterson. He claims to have no information about her location or status. I guess, that means he cannot keep the money either. Or, it means he has to give himself the money. Right?

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Today was a pretty cool day. I went to the Naples Zoo and saw some bad ass animals…tigers…monkeys…rabid ducks I also got 25k NX Cash! So Megas is now un-ugly Here are some pics from the zoo and of Megas.

Zoo:

El Tigre:

When Ducks Attack!

MapleStory:

My NX Card

The result…

I’ll hopefully be making some videos (not able to upload them because of the slow connection here)…and some podcasts too so stay tuned!

David Spade has donated $25,000 to the family of a slain Phoenix police officer.The 43-year-old comedian said that after reading about Officer Nick Erfle’s death last month, he was “hit out of the blue” by the shooting and the fact that Erfle had overcome cancer to return to duty.

“I’m from Arizona so I’m always a little aware of things that are going on there,” Spade, a Scottsdale native, told The Associated Press on Monday. “It just struck me as such a rough situation just because cops in general get kind of a bad rap lately and people forget it is the scariest job out there.”

Spade, who stars on the CBS sitcom “Rules of Engagement,” said he arranged for a money transfer into a bank account already established for public donations.

He has not spoken with Erfle’s family or friends.

Spade said he hopes Erfle’s wife was able to use the money for the funeral or other expenses. “I just thought I would throw something in the pile,” he said.

Erfle, 33, was shot Sept. 18 on a busy street after attempting to arrest Erik Jovani Martinez.

Martinez, a 22-year-old illegal immigrant who had been deported in March 2006, gave an alias to conceal an outstanding felony warrant. Unbeknownst to Martinez, the alias belonged to someone who also had an outstanding warrant.

Besides his wife, Erfle left behind two sons, ages 5 and 3.

Source: www.cinema-pedia.com