Mukhang Guilty’s BLOG

A year has passed since I ran my first road race, the UP ICTUS CENTURY run on January 13, 2008.  I can’t find the race results anymore, but I remembered running a 1:07 10k.  I also remembered feeling that sense of acheivement because I never imagined that I could EVER in my lifetime, complete a 10K race. 

My love for running started after the UP ICTUS run, I discovered that the post run endorphin rush was the ULTIMATE CURE for that nagging nicotine habit that I find myself occasionally relapsing into.  Soon enough, 10K was peanuts, my running distances increased from 10 to 15 to 21, and ultimately to 42.  Nowadays, finishing a race just isn’t enough anymore, I wanted to run fast, I wanted to finish fast… nothing satisfies me more that seeing my name in the first few pages of the race results sheet.

After an extended break from serious running in December, I was eager to get back into racing mode, hopefully establish a PR or two within the year.  The Bull Run and the Happy Run were the first two races I signed up for in 2009, what’s significant about these two races was that the race routes were similar if not identical to the race routes that I ran in last year (Bull Run 2008 and Mizuno Infinity run), I could benchmark my finish times against last year’s finish times.

The race results from these two races show an improvement from my finish times last year. 

• 2008 BULL RUN = 1:02 VS 2009 BULL RUN = 47:02
• Mizuno Infinity Run = 1:21 VS The Happy Run = 1:13:28

Looking ahead, I’ll definitely be working on improving my finish times further this year, maybe this time around I’ll be able to finish ahead of my RUNNING CRUSH.

BULL RUN 2009 PICS

HAPPY’s FIRST RUN..

….with matching SHOES

Chuchay, Dingdong, Bards, Kathy, Happy, Me, Dindo

THE HAPPY RUN PICS

a 1:13 finish

 Chuchay’s winning form, she placed 8th 15k female category…

Happy and her GREEN ICON office mates: Anthony, Gerard, Abet, Rannie, Happy, Dayan

JR ran a 28 min 5K…. and he’s single and available.. FYI

Vicky and Mesh

Kathy and Chuchay

Happy, Me, Mesh, Vince, Kristine, Kathy, Chuchay, Bards, Vicky, Mark David