2 hours. The amount of sleep I had before this race. It was a rainy night and I was expecting a rainy race. I woke up around 2am, had a small breakfast, changed into my running gear and I looked into my watch, it was already 2:30am. Travel time from Dasma city to MOA is only 30 minute, I reached MOA parking lot around 3am. I frantically texted Beep Beep of Team Reebok to inform him that I’m already in the area (he had my race kit). “Beep, wer na u? Hir na me!” After a couple of text messages, we were still confused where to meet. He was saying he was near a parking lot, but there were several parking lots in MOA*laughs*, he said he was near the entrance of main activity area, but I ended up waiting near the exit area which I originally thought was the entrance. I finally called him and we were able to meet after 10 minutes. It was raining cats and dogs at that time, I finally boarded the bus and reached BGC around 4am. Right in my mind, I thought its gonna be a good race for me, as I usually do good whenever it rains.  Race started exactly around 4:30am. I think I started to ran too fast. I planned a positive split for this one as I target a sub-2(heck the last time I did a sub 2 was

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