It was a rainy night last Thursday and being the last day of Mizuno Run clinic, we were to form a four member relay team with each member to sprint around BHS loop (1.2km) while carrying Gatorade bottle and gulping its contents entirely after completing his turn. The plan was for Doc Marvin to start the race followed by Bryan, Timmy then me. The pressure was on me to run after several runners to get at least a decent finish or from the words of Timmy, to save our ego by beating the Milo kids.

I tell you those Milo kids are really fast. I asked who would run last from their team and also asked his best time for 5km, he told me his best time for 5km run was 20 minutes. I realized then that there’s no way in hell I would beat his ass knowing that my best time for 5km was a mere 26 minutes. Got to do some miracle in order to save our ego, I told myself.

After a warm-up run around BHS loop followed by drills, Coach Ige proceed gave us some instructions then off we started the run. Doc Marvin started his run and I noticed how fast he ran the first few meters of the race. We waited until early finishers started coming in, gulping their Gatorade completely before the next runner would start. We were still waiting for Doc Marvin and I noticed 4 or 5 runners already finished the first loop. Doc Marvin finally came and after clearing up his Gatorade (which took him some time to gulp all the contents), Bryan finally got to start his run, he appeared raring to play catch up with all the runners. I thought he really finished fast and so Timmy came after him. When my time came to start my run, I heard all the takbo.ph members there cheering louder, and this gave me some crazy boost to really sprint, never care a rat’s ass if any runners would bother to block my way. My strategy was to continuously look for any participating runner and make him my target. If my memory served me right, I was only able to overtake two runners, or I was just so focus I wasn’t able to check the other runners. When I reached the finish area and gulped the entire contents of my Gatorade, in the midst of everyone’s cheer some one told me we finished #2. I was really surprise, and at the same time glad that we were able to save our ego and beat those Milo kids. Hehehehe!

All pictures taken by Bryan.

Mizuno Run Clinic Participants

RunnerSpeaks Interview - Highlight of this day was when people from RunnerSpeaks (watch this on QTV every Sunday 2:45pm) covered the entire race and interviewed us after the run. I told him that because of Mizuno Running Clinic, we could give those Kenyan a run for their money. Yeah I did say that, just look at my facial expression!