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Its just five days to go for the biggest running event in Cebu, the Cebu City Marathon which will happen this Sunday, 9 January. The official list of 42K and 21K participants are now out! Check it out by clicking on the links.

The registration for the Run for Sta. Teresa de Avila 2 has been extended to 29 December. This run, for the benefit of the Knights of Columbus, Talisay City, Poblacion parish, intends to raise funds for the city’s indigents and rebuild the parish hall. This event has the following race distances: 3K, 6K and 12K.

When: 30 December, 5AM
Where: Sta. Teresa de Avila Parish compound, Poblacion, Talisay City, Cebu
Registration: Sta. Teresa de Avila Parish compound, Poblacion, Talisay City, Cebu
Contact number: 2728091, look for Teresa or Priscilla

Runners should watch out for this one!

I was able to cover the 2010 edition for Smart and I just wish I will be able to run this one next year. Check the rest of the Epic Relay 250 2010 edition posts that I’ve done and consider the possibilities of running this good race with team mates.

Check gallery here

I was invited by Ivan Henares to a Corregidor blogger’s tour today and fortunately, the Corregidor International Half Marathon was also ongoing. In between our tour on a tram, I was able to take images of the runners. Do check the photos.

Even up to the last minute when I was already at the venue at The Fort for the ING Running 20 road race, my fourth race since I started running, I was still having second thoughts of going the 5K distance fearing that my knee, acting up for the past training runs, which I later think, well, all symptoms point, to runner’s knee.

Blas, who ran the 20K, called me a week before to ask if I would be interested to receive a free 5K race kit for this specific run and I said yes. Before the start of the race, Rainier handed me the pack before his 10K run.

With the kit at hand, I said to myself, bahala na ang sakit (pain). will deal with it when it comes and opened it, affixed the race bib and headed to deposit my bag. I stretched and keeping in mind to do it well especially my legs as I was suspecting that the pain in my right knee might have been caused by tight muscles.

The race was okay: flat roads, ample water stations except that what I saw were mostly water and the energy drinks were rather few.

One thing that the organizers failed to do, and this is a major thing, the turning point for the 5K was unmarked that many runners continued with the wrong route. I was just lucky that when I was near the turning point, one person was berating one marshall, pointing out that the 5K racers need to turn at that point.

But what can he do? He didn’t seem to know and, horror of horrors, there was no tarp to indicate it was the turning point. No 5K winners were announced.

As for my right knee, I was quite happy that it didn’t act up. The stretching might have helped. Whenever I sense that a slight pain is starting to develop while running, I have to slow down or walk. I finished the race in 33 minutes 52 seconds (unofficial as no 5K results were published).

Is this enough to get back on track with my 21K training? I doubt it. I have to do this one slow. It’s either the CCM or my knee.

Check the ING Running 20 gallery.