February 2009 Archive
- My New Old Roadie
Guess who has a new hand-me-down roadie… Uhm, well actually it isn’t mine. It was just entrusted to me by my dearest running buddy, Annie, before she left for Singapore. Annie loves this bike of hers. She cleans it every morning and cares for it as if it was her 4th child. Her decision to [...]
- Masahista from Heaven
She didn’t look like an angel when she arrived. Clothed in the generic pristine, white uniforms of massage therapists, her outfit was perhaps the only thing angelic about her in my eyes. She was a heavy, dark woman with boy’s cut hair, almost as big as Eddie Murphy in the movie Norbit…okay, maybe not that [...]
- Can You Spot Coach Rio?
I was viewing Leica Carpo’s photo in NYC Marathon again last night. And, lo and behold, I was surprised to discover that Coach Rio secretly ran the marathon too. Seems like he put on some weight though (don’t we all when we’re abroad?) and quickly shed it off before he flew back to Manila. [...]
- TBR. ITB. LOL.
I am going insane. Or, I think I’ve gone psycho already. I realized a couple of days ago that, by February 7, it will be the 2nd anniversary of my knee injury. Since Singapore Marathon, I’ve been able to run easy 5ks with manageable pain on the left knee, but I haven’t ran any of [...]
- Runner’s Interview: Leica Carpo
Honolulu. Pasig. White Rock. New York. These are just some of the major marathons and triathlons that Leica Carpo, runner and triathlete, has joined since she started running in Aug 2007. Last November, she finished the NYC Marathon with a time of 3:40, which qualified her to run in the prestigious Boston Marathon this coming [...]
