The last Mizuno Run Club session will be held tonight at its usual place and time: Mizuno store, Bonifacio High Street, 7 pm. This is open to the public. Registration is free.
Mizuno will hold Running Clinics to replace the regular Run Club sessions. Details of the clinics will be discussed tonight.
Good news for all those who registered for the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon: Nike is providing 50 uniforms—singlets, shorts, and running shoes—to be worn by Pinoy runners during the Singapore Marathon. (I’m telling you, we will look like Filipino olympians in them!)
To sign up, email Coach Rio at rio@runrio.com with the following details:
1. Confirmation details from Singapore Marathon (with race bib #)
2. Your full name
3. Your singlet, shorts, and shoe size (Nike sizing)
This is on a first come, first serve basis. Again, only 50 uniforms available.
————————– UPDATE ————————–
As of Sept. 23, lunchtime (yes, the same day I posted this), Coach Rio informed me that the slots for the 50 runners were full. So sorry.
– Marga & Jeremy posing with the Pinoy Ultra Runners lanyards. Bagay sila noh? I mean, bagay sa kanila yung lanyards –
Buy 1 Pinoy Ultra Runner lanyard for only P100 and you will give fellow Filipinos—Pinoy Ultra Runners Jose De Vera, Jocelyn Saw, Peter Rivera and Paolo Punsalan—a chance to compete in the OXFAM Trailwalker 100, a 100km run/hike/walk on the MacLehose Trail in Hong Kong on November 7-9, 2008. Click here to view the trail.
If you are interested, please contact Jeremy Go at jeremygo@gmail.com or 0917.852.7587 or Neville Manaois at fundrun@gmail.com.
Jeremy Go gives us a brief backgrounder on the OXFAM and the Trailwalker:
OXFAM is UK based confederation of 13 organizations working with over 3,000 partners in more than 100 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice. Originally called the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief, it was founded in 1942 in Great Britain and now has presence worldwide, including the Philippines.
The Trailwalker is the largest fund raising event of OXFAM HK, basically it is a 100 KM run/hike/walk held annually on the MacLehose Trail, a 100 km hiking trail across the mountain ranges of the New Territories with a 48 hour cut off.
Oxfam Trailwalker Hong Kong is the first Trailwalker in the world. Other countries like UK, Australia and New Zealand follow the Hong Kong model closely. In 2008 for the very first time Belgium is also organising Trailwalker in their country.
Part of the requirement is to raise funds for OXFAM. Since 1986, more than 42,000 Trailwalkers have raised over HK$ 158 million to support Oxfam’s various poverty alleviation and emergency relief projects. We are doing our part by selling these lanyards to donate to OXFAM, when the team reaches HK.
A few helpful links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxfam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailwalker
http://www.oxfamtrailwalker.org.hk/en/home.html
There’s been a lot of buzz around this shoe, the Nike Lunar Trainers, even if it isn’t out in the market yet. There was the Nike Lunar Test Run we had last August. And I read about Runwitme‘s similar experience in Malaysia. Plus, Jeannette Wang‘s positive experience using it when she won the Singapore Sundown Ultramarathon (84km) with a time of 9.5 hours.
The Lunar Trainers are set for a limited release this October 2008—meaning the distribution of this shoe is not massive and not a on a wide scale like other Nike shoes—while bulk of these will go on full blast in early 2009.
For those of you who would like to reserve a pair of Lunars (retails at P4,995), below are the contact numbers of Nike outlets. Nike says there are only 18 pairs each for men and women per outlet, except at Nike Bonifacio High Street where there are 30 pairs for men and 18 for women:
Black Cat, I-Np Glorietta 729.14.73 / 813.00.82
Nike Park – Greenbelt3 757.44.91
Nike Park – Sm Moa 556.07.89
Nike Park – The Fort 856.25.86 / 856.25.87
Nike Park – North Triangle 901.35.47
Pinoy Ultra Runners presents
RUNNING AID
The Beginner’s Guide to Injury-Free Running
September 11, 2008, Thursday, 7:30 pm
R.O.X. Fort Bonifacio High Street
Admission is free.
Register at
pinoyultrarunners@yahoo.com
rox.cs@primegrp.com
R.O.X. Store
www.pinoyultrarunners.multiply.com
