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Whew! After much travel, the rains, a tendon pain and procrastination, I’m back!

Four kilometers in 26.5 minutes ain’t bad but I have to start somewhere and quite happy that it was one continuous run without my runner’s knee acting up. Wore my Reebok ZigNanos, stretched this time, (the first time I ran with these shoes, didn’t stretched much and got tendon pain) and just felt good, burning a total of 405 calories and 150 after a 2.6 kilometer walk.

I really have to discipline myself to do my training runs as I will be running the 10K distance in the Rexona Run this 24 July. Hmmm… I think its enough time and I really have to go back and recommit on why I ran in the first place: for fitness and losing weight. If I didn’t suffer runner’s knee October last year, I would’ve ran long, like the 21K in early this year’s Cebu City Marathon.

Long term, I do hope to do trail running, having been inspired by the runners covering the TNF100 in CamSur and, I think, being a mountaineeer during my college years, is a natural progression. Wish me luck!

I'm a proud owner of Titanium Runner's shirt

Finally, I got my Titanium Runner shirts from the ultramarathoner himself, Blas! In a text message this afternoon, he asked me if I was in Makati and that the shirts will be available in a few hours. That got me excited! I remember him mention a few months back about giving away his branded shirts and now, I’m one of the first few recipients, if not the first.

At the Krispy Kreme Trinoma branch, he handed me the items plus two for the Cebu based runners. We chatted about running, running magazines and shoes, too.

I got two different shirts and I just like the dark blue version (left). It’s a quick dry tee (like Nike’s Dri Fit), with Blas’s logo at the left breast part. His blog link is on the right sleeve and a quote behind the shirt. You can wear this for running or any active sport and/or casually because it has a collar.

Thanx Blas! Check out the other winners of the shirt at Titanium Runner.

Rovilson Fernandez, celebrity, used my photo of him as his profile pic in his personal profile page

I think, this is the closest thing that I can get to being endorsed, for free by a celebrity. Bwahahaha! He pointed this out to me in a private email but endorsed… phrase is just mine. He also liked another shot I took of him at the break of dawn. All images were taken during the CamSur Marathon 2010.

Thanx man!

It was 2 March when I finally decided to start my couch-to-5k training program, laced up my newly bought discounted New Balance shoes and head out that dawn to the Legazpi Park in Makati City. Five months after, it’s been 311 KM total according to my dailymile.com profile. I want to get fit. That was my mantra to run and I’m achieving it. Little by little, friends have commented about me shedding those pounds off.

I have joined a total of three, yeah, just three, races since I started:

• NatGeo Run, 5K (Metro Manila)
• Fair Trade Run, 5k (Cebu), and
• Takbo.ph Runfest, 10K (Metro Manila)

and I’m actually training for my first 21K, CamSur, this 26 of September. Of course, I will be joining 10K races before the Bicol run.

I’ve also fallen into the laziness trap or skipping training runs because of some flimsy reasons but I am dead set in my first 21K and thus, I have to be more disciplined in doing my weekly routine. From three times a week, I will be doing four and set my weekly mileage at 30-40 KM.

Looking forward to do more runs, get faster and be fit.

I contented my self photographing runners in yesterday’s Rexona Run 2010 but a few hours ago, on the eve of my five months of running, I started August with a leisurely midnight run around Makati City. Nothing so special but traced an old route that I’ve been coming back from time to time: Dela Rosa – Makati Ave. – Arnaiz and two loops at the Legazpi and W. Sycip Park.

I need to start August right. After having paced a friend for around 3KM last week, my only run, I have to get back to my training for the upcoming 21K at CamSur. Anyway, today’s 2 August and marking my fifth month of my running addiction.