My venture into the dark world of UltraMarathon started last Sunday. To date, the longest run I’ve done so far is only 42km. In fact, i have three of them namely Milo Marathon, Subic International Marathon and Philippine International Marathon.
So when a fellow takbo.ph member invited a couple of “crazies” to join an UltraRun from Luneta ending at Tagaytay Rotonda, I signed up, only four days before the target date. For those who are not aware yet, I plan to join BDM 102km ultramarathon race and this is just a part of my training.
The run formally started around 1am at KM0 after a short prayer led by Pojie. We started albeit fast as expected. Gab and Rod led the way for us from km0 until we reach Las Pinas area as they are already familiar with the place. At one point, Gab would inform us to run on the left section of the road instead of the right section of the road because of the “rugby boys” who usually stay near that area and might run after us and cause some harm. When we reached Tambo area where Uniwide Mall is located, we turned left as runners are not allowed to run along the coastal road. Within Paranaque area, I was expecting a quiet/silent community but it looks like that city never sleeps. It was within this city when we met a couple of gays and one of them tried to run with us, with his full attention on our handsome buddy Mark. We just ignored them and continue our run, until we reached Las Pinas then Bacoor Area. During our third stop in Bacoor, Angel and Junar informed us a couple of would be snatchers tried to run after them. That made them ran faster and probably scared the hell out of those would be snatchers. We proceed with our run until we reached Imus where we did our fourth stop-over. After which we continue our run and made another stop over a km before Salitran then made another stop over at WalterMart Dasma. If my memory served me right, we rested longer here. After some stretching, fueling and eating Junar’s delicious tuna sandwich, we proceed with our run and made a stop over somewhere in Silang. The wind was to cold and we did enjoy it. As we continue with our run, I was tutoring Mark about brisk walk technique which I suggested he might try instead of just “regular” walk. Later he would comment how I easily outpaced him while I was doing brisk walking even if he was already running*lol*.
