Dream Marathon 2014: Bull Session 4

Friday, 6 December 2013  |  News + Promos

It’s our 4th Bull Session for TBR Dreamers 2014 on Saturday, December 14, 2013 at our race venue, NUVALI, Sta. Rosa, Laguna!

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Event: BULL SESSION 4
Date: December 14, 2013 Saturday
Venue: Solenad Activity Area, NUVALI, Sta. Rosa, Laguna.  (Near Yellow Cab) Click HERE for location map.
Assembly Time: 4:00AM
Start: 4:30AM
Program: Short talk by Lit Onrubia followed by a 2 hr 40 min run

REMINDERS:

  • Please come on time.
  • We recommend you leave your baggage in your cars, but if you must bring them, you may leave your baggage with our staff during the run. TBR will not be responsible for lost or stolen items so please avoid bringing valuables.
  • Gatorade will be providing hydration only at two points (start and at the junction) on the route.  Please bring a hydration belt or bottle for refilling. (For race day, we will be providing both water and Gatorade every 2km)
  • Please bring your own water.
  • If you have flashlights or headlamps, we recommend you bring them.
  • Bull Sessions are free and open to the public. Feel free to invite your friends!

For any questions, call Macel at TBR DM Hotline: Sun 0942 477 6099 or email tbrdream@gmail.com

FREE SHUTTLE C/O NUVALI

Thank you to our official venue partner NUVALI for providing free shuttle service for a limited number of participants for our Bull Session.

SCHEDULE

  • Depart ROX, Bonifacio High Street for Nuvali at 3:00 AM
  • Depart NUVALI for ROX, BHS at 8:30 AM

WHO CAN RIDE:

  • Only 20 pax. First come, first served basis only.
  • Only registered participants of TBR Dream Marathon. No guests allowed

HOW MUCH: Free

HOW TO SIGN IN:

1) Click on the link below.
2) Check www.tbrdream.com for list of confirmed shuttle riders to be released before Wednesday next week

<<< UPDATE: SIGN IN SHEET HAS BEEN REMOVED. SLOTS ARE FULL >>>

CEP COMPRESSION SOCKS & CALF SLEEVES FOR PRE ORDER

CEP staff will be onsite at Bull Session 4 to accept pre-orders and payments of TBR CEP Compression Socks or Calf Sleeves.

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Click HERE for more info

TBR – CEP Compression Socks & Sleeves: Get Yours at a Discount!

Thursday, 5 December 2013  |  Gear + Gadgets

Exciting news!  CEP Compression Socks will be producing limited edition TBR Compression Socks and Calf Sleeves!  Even better news?  They’re offering these socks and calf sleeves at a discount!

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The TBR CEP Compression socks are P1,950.  Original price was P2,775, while the TBR CEP Calf Sleeves is P1,550.  Original price was P2,250.

The socks and calf sleeves comes in White, Black, Pink, Red, and Blue.  You can order based on the size chart provided below.

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Orders will be accepted at RUNNR – Bonifacio High Street & Alabang from Dec. 7 to 23.  CEP will also be at Bull Session 4 on December 14 at Nuvali to take orders and accept payments.

For inquiries, contact Jerine of SRI.
Phone: 651-7777 loc 859 / 0929-143-0643
Email: jdplacido@sriphils.com

BENEFITS OF CEP

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NIKE WE RUN MANILA 2013 IGNITES THE FILIPINO SPIRIT OF UNITY

Tuesday, 3 December 2013  |  Race Reports

Bah! Humbug! I could’ve said this over and over again last Sunday, acting like Scrooge on the first day of December, as I scrolled over all the Instagram photos of friends, like Drew Arellano and Hector Yuzon of Secondwind, who joined the Nike We Run MNL over at Marikina City that afternoon.

I’m always game for Nike running events, but, for some reason, the timing is always off for me. This year, I couldn’t make it because of a conflict in schedule and, with the venue being on the other side of the world from my home, I couldn’t just escape from the kids and be back in an hour. I guess I’ll have to hope and pray that I make it to next year’s We Run MNL. If not, then perhaps I’ll find a way to fly off to Nike Women’s Marathon in SFO. (Dreams. Dreams.)

To all 14,000 runners who finished their 10k with their buddies, congratulations! (Ang dami ninyo! Hah!) To all those who didn’t make it, read more about it below and let’s just cross our fingers that we make it to next year’s event…

PRESS RELEASE

Nike enabled 14,000. Filipino runners today in the third edition of the Nike We Run Manila held at Marikina City. Bringing to life the Filipino spirit of unity, runners signed up in pairs to run 10km and stood in solidarity at the finish as a mark of respect to the recent events in Visayas region of Philippines.

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In honouring the Filipino spirit of unity, or samahan spirit, the race was a testament to Filipinos who encourage each other regardless in times of adversity or ambition. “The Nike We Run Manila 2013 serves runners by offering them a unique platform to run alongside a global community of runners. This year, we fueled the samahan spirit by encouraging runners to sign up and run the race together with a buddy for their fellow kababayan” says Courtney Cole-Faso, Country Marketing Manager of Nike Philippines.

Nike We Run Manila is part of Nike’s global We Run series. Aimed at motivating and inspiring athletes around the world, more than 350,000 runners would have taken over 3 billion strides in We Run races in 26 cities by the end of 2013, motivated by Nike+ and Nike Running design innovations.

Nike’s We Run races range in distance from 5K to a full marathon, and capture the unique enthusiasm of each city. From Sao Paolo to Seoul to Singapore, each city will be moved to action through a series of unique experiences for runners. Tailored to each individual city, the We Run races will build on the aesthetic of each landscape through an interactive run course – http://werun.nikeinc.com/

On The Heels of a Dream: My First Ever 10K

Tuesday, 3 December 2013  |  Race Reports

On The Heels of a Dream is a weekly column by guest writer Obbie Suguitan who is currently training for his first marathon, The Bull Runner Dream Marathon, on February 16, 2014.

All through the long weekend training runs of the past 9 weeks, I’ve always finished in the last three – if not the absolute last. I attribute it to the sedentary lifestyle I had for over a decade prior to training, an extraordinarily bad diet, age, effects of smoking for more than a decade from 11 years ago, and the obesity that resulted from all these. My bad knees and poor endurance had me starting from a disadvantage instead of just from scratch. Fortunately, my friends could be relied upon to push me to do something I needed but not necessarily liked – train for a marathon.

Now, after a little bit over two months of faithful training and diet modification, I’ve worked my endurance up a tad and have logged on quite a bit of mileage. By my rough mathematical estimate, I’ve run approximately 150 kilometers in total. Knowing myself as I do, this is an astounding number. Even as I am constantly impressed by my batchmates, this figure is amazing for me. It begs, however, for me to take the next logical step. To participate in an official run.

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So two Sundays ago, November 24, I ran in my first ever official organized run – the Sante Barley Domination Run 2013. On my running buddy Joanne’s urging – against my own instinct of self-preservation – I joined the 10K group instead. I didn’t go through the prescribed 3K or 5K so this was completely alien to me.

So I got to the location of the run at just the right time and was busy observing the proceedings and generally being tense. My wife and youngest son were with me but I was in a bit of a haze because it was a bit intimidating. I just kept repeating in my mind: run your own race – run your own race – relax the toes – relax the toes-relax the toes…

After the countdown spiel of someone who referred to himself as the ‘running host’ and the 10K group bunching together near the starting line, I just heard 5-4-3-2-1-Go! Then everyone was off. As the group stretched forward, I eventually had enough space to start my interval timer and begin a jog. Thank you very much to training, my body went into somewhat of an autopilot mode. The arms started swinging, the legs and feet went into the familiar motion that was trained in for the past two months – thankfully. The best counteraction to jitters is autopilot mode – stress cannot override training!

Around 3 minutes into the run, I warmed up, got into a rhythm (slow but a rhythm nonetheless), and was starting to enjoy and get my bearing. As the distance was eaten up, with a guilty smile on my face, I started to see that some runners were slowing down and that I was passing some of them. Hmmm…was it possible? It was. It is. So through the darkness I trudged on – being passed by some runners and passing some.

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It was more of the same for the next 40 minutes of me doing my prescribed run-walk-run, with a few bouts of calf tightening (or so I thought). So far I didn’t feel the need to stop nor take unscheduled walk breaks. Good. But I was tiring. Even with the training, this was mighty hard. However, nearing what looked like the toll plaza of the highway, I saw the U-turn marker! People were having their photos taken at the marker while I was just running my race without even a smile. Don’t get me wrong. I was having fun but not the ‘Ha-ha’ kind but the ‘I ‘m- doing-this-so-I-can-join-the-1%-marathon-finishers-by-Feb’ kind. If you’re anything like me, you’ll have fun doing something only a few are capable of.

Sante Barley Domination Run 2013

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So, after running back the way I came, I passed a lot of runners in my distance group who were still working their way to the U-turn. Behind me! The sun had come up and the finish line archway was growing in size as I approached. Several meters before the actual finish line my wife and son were with me taking photos. Then, almost anti-climactically, I crossed the line and had a medal put upon my neck.

Finished. I didn’t dramatically run slo-mo across the tape, didn’t hear Chariots of Fire theme music, no close-up shots of sweat beads flying from my brow. Nothing. My wife was there. My son was there. I finished and had a medal. That was really enough – and the fact that this time I wasn’t even close to being last. Not that I’d mind anyway.

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Unceremoniously, I cast a glance around for any familiar faces, but not having seen any, just walked on back to the car. To be completely honest about it, finishing that 10K was both a confidence builder AND somewhat of a rude awakening-cum-reality bite. At this point, thinking about myself doing four times the distance of what I ran this time is quite a long way off. Between now and then however, there remains two months more of training. I will continue the training, stand with my batchmates, pray, keep on doing what I have been, and have fun doing it. Hard work – yes. Needs commitment – yes. Impossible – no. 10K in the bag.

Photos courtesy of Photo-Ops

BGC Cycle: Anton’s 1st Bike Event…and 1st Crash (Part 1)

Monday, 2 December 2013  |  Race Reports

This is part of a series of posts under the Quaker Challenge. It’s about the quest that my kids and I have to achieve our Quaker Goal to swim, bike, and run more. Read about it HERE.

Anton and I joined BGC Cycle held last November 15-17, 2013.  It was a fantastic, well-organized event, but I’m posting about it only now as I limited my posts about running or events the past couple of weeks out of respect for those affected by Typhoon Yolanda.  As we help with rehab efforts, I’ll be getting back into posting about running again.

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Back to BGC Cycle.  Anton signed up for the Junior Challenge held in the afternoon of Saturday, November 16 while I joined the 40k Community Ride the following day, Sunday, with friends (I’ll post about that separately).  It was Anton’s first bike ride and, since he enjoyed the bike portion the most in his first triathlon (I was hoping he’d love running more, but what can I do?  Ouch. My heart. LOL), he was looking forward to this event.

The BGC Cycle Junior Challenge was a 30 minute ride around a small loop near Bonifacio High Street.  It was for children from 10 to 12 years old.  As the kids stood at the starting line with their bikes, some of them looking pretty serious and strong, the organizers repeatedly reminded the kids that it was not a race, that they should just enjoy the ride.  I whispered the same to Anton and told him “Have fun!” before the gun went off.

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– Kids await the gun start –

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– Anton’s all set –

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– with my boy! Not sure who’s more nervous –

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– Nice to see Vima (Kulitrunner) and Bee Yen (Kamote Runner) before the race start –

Since it was a looped course, it was perfect for family and friends to watch the kids fly by.  We would see Anton bike past us and I would hurriedly yell: “Go Anton!” while simultaneously attempting to take action shots. (Such is the life of a trikids mom!)  It was great to see him enjoying!

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– Anton passes us on the bike! –

Time flew fast and, before we knew it, the host announced that there was just 1 minute to go!  I was ready to congratulate my little boy and I patiently waited to see him.  As more and more kids biked past us, I noticed it was taking him too long to come in.  I looked at my hubby and he looked equally worried.  We waited, and waited, and waited.  Every second felt like an hour.  My imagination went wild with all the bad things that could’ve happened to my baby.  Seriously.

Within a few minutes, we saw Anton walking towards us escorted by a marshal holding his bike.  It was a huge relief to see him, but, when I saw the wounds on both knees and his arm, I freaked out.  “What happened?!!” I asked.  As the medics dressed his six (SIX! Waaah!) wounds, he recounted how he turned too fast on the curb, hit the edge of his tire on the sidewalk, flew off the bike and slid on his right side.

I wanted to hug my baby boy and forbid him from ever riding a bike again, but as I watched him tell his story with half a smirk on his face, I realized that he was completely fine.  No broken bones nor cracked helmet, no broken spirit either.  While I was a nervous wreck, this boy of mine seemed secretly proud of his battle scars.  In fact, he looked challenged to try even harder.

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– Check out that smile! –

We had dinner at California Pizza Kitchen after the race and I asked him over pizza and pasta: “So, are you going to ride a bike again soon?”  He replied confidently “Yes.” probably thinking to himself: What kind of a question is that, Mom?

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– Nice seeing the Pangilinan Family at the finish! Here we are with top cyclist Robbie McEwen and Chris –

Thank you to the organizers especially the medics of BGC Cycle for caring for my son.  A doctor even met with us after to advice us on tetanus shots and appease the most worried member of the family, me!