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For our Bull Session 4 on Jan 28, Saturday, here’s the list of confirmed runners for the free shuttle to NUVALI.

marie grace c. alano
Jonard gamboa
Kristine Joy Cerame
Jose Ritchel Viñas
Allan bulos
Dina Alix
Riz Damaso
Chris sta cruz
Rosemarie Beltran
Joyce negapatan
Edward dela Cruz Diente
Dexter ignacio
Vince Bunuan
jen malijan
gladysmay pascua
Joy Bagason
King Nicklaus Quimpo
Harrold Carreon
Josef Plata
Paolo Castro
salve Latagan
Celeste Gavino

Reminders:

• Shuttle to leave ROX for NUVALI: 330 am
• Shuttle to leave NUVALI for ROX: 830 am
• Please be on time. Shuttle will wait for no one

Woohoo! Reminding you about our long run this coming Saturday! It’s going to be fun.  Well, tiring and a sure test of endurance, but hey it really is going to be fun—especially if you’ve got us and your fellow TBR Dream Marathoners around.

Please see details below. You’ll also find the sign in sheet for the free NUVALI shuttle.

BULL SESSION 4 – LONG RUN 3 HOURS

Date: Jan. 28, 2012, Saturday
Distance and time: Long run, 3 hours (following TBR Dream Marathon training program)
Register: 4:00 AM. Start: 4:30 AM
Venue: Solenad Activity Area, NUVALI, Sta. Rosa, Laguna (Click HERE for a map to NUVALI)

1) Gatorade will be provided at only 2 or 3 stations. Please bring your own hydration.
2) You may leave your bags with our staff at Solenad area, but we will not be responsible for lost items.  Please leave valuables at home or in your own cars.
3) Thanks to NUVALI’s support, they’ll be providing a FREE shuttle service taking runners to NUVALI from ROX, Bonifacio High Street and back.

• The shuttle will accommodate only 22 runners.  Runners must be registered TBR DM runners only.
• Shuttle to leave ROX for NUVALI: 330 am
• Shuttle to leave NUVALI for ROX: 830 am
• Please be on time. Shuttle will wait for no one.
• To sign up for the free shuttle service, click here <<< LINK HAS BEEN REMOVED. SLOTS ARE FULL >>>.  First come, first served basis only.

4) During our last Bull Circle, we mentioned that Gatorade will offer a FREE Gatorade Sweat Test for 30-50 runners. To simplify the process, we thought it best to hold the Gatorade Sweat Test on a separate day (probably a weekday, late afternoon) in a track oval where the scientists can easily monitor the runners.  Please stay tuned for more information on this.

It was a full house at Fully Booked last night for our 4th Bull Circle for TBR Dream Marathon 2012.

– With exactly 2 more months to go until race day, our runners listened intently to our speakers –

– We filled the 5th floor of Fully Booked. Thanks for coming everyone! –

TBR Dream – Batch 2010 alumni Reylynne dela Paz shared her inspiring story on how she trained for TBR Dream (running around UP at 1 am!), how she finished it, and how far she’s gone since then (she’s nabbed her sub-4 marathon PR and is now training for Bataan Death March.)

Dr. George Canlas, orthopedic surgeon, head of the International Olympic Committee, and member of the Gatorade Sports Science Institute, talked about hydration for runners.

Dr. Randy Molo, orthopedic surgeon, member of Phil. Center for Sports Medicine working with RP athletes and the Azkals, consultant for New Balance, and member of Secondwind Multisport Team, spoke on biomechanics for runners.

I reminded everyone to show up for the next Bull Sessions and Bull Circles! Our next events will be exciting ones as the race draws near. The best is yet to come. Hope to see you then!

It was the perfect setting for our 3rd Bull Session this morning. Our TBR Dream Marathoners ran long for 1 hour and 45 mins. in the cool and nippy holiday air at NUVALI. I won’t say much in this post since these photos will effectively show you how much fun we had this morning.

Congratulations to our TBR Dream Marathoners for running strong today!

– Class pic: Runners during today’s 3rd Bull Session at NUVALI –

– Pace group led by TBR DM alumni Mark Terrado before we started –

– Pace group led by TBR DM alumni Miriam Valero, Angel Motomal, and “Kots Mike” Janeo –

– Bull Session’s lead coach Lit Onrubia, NUVALI GM, Jun Bisnar, and Ripple 100 and TBR DM runner Andre Yap –

– Off they go! Love these NUVALI roads! –

– TBR DM alumni and current batch run together –

– TBR DM alumni Craig Logan (far left) paces his group –

– These Snail Runners sure know how to hop and jump too –

– Here they go again. Jump! –

– TBR DM is a beginner’s marathon, but our course is challenging enough for any serious runner. Our marathoners are toughies! –

– Group led by TBR Dream Team Jun Cruz –

– What comes up must come down –

– We couldn’t help it. Here’s another class pic –

Huge thank you to our TBR DM alumni who paced our marathoners, NUVALI for the full support, GATORADE for hydration, and everyone else who always go out of their way to make each run or talk special for our TBR DM runners.

TBR DREAM MARATHON 2012 is co-presented by SUN BROADBAND and RUNRIO. EVENT PARTNER – NUVALI. MAJOR SPONSORS – Gatorade, New Balance, Oakley, and Otterbox. MINOR SPONSORS – Timex, Nutribar, Secondwind, Nathan, Chris Sports, ROX, BGC. DONORS: Neat Feat. MEDIA PARTNERS – Multisport, Ripple 100.  LOGISTICS PARTNER: Creative Juice.

Over 200 runners showed up for Bull Session 2 at Bonifacio High Street earlier this morning.

– Photo courtesy of Craig Allan –

Bull Sessions head coach, Lit Onrubia, gave a talk on long runs to prepare TBR Dream Marathoners early on in their training.

LIT’S KEY POINTS:

The LSD (Long, slow distance): putting increasingly larger building blocks in place to support you through 42k.

• Emphasis on the “L” and the “S”. L = We start at 50mins and we build to 30k. S = slower than marathon pace.
• How slow is “slow”? 55-75secs/km slower than marathon pace, especially once your LSD starts going longer than 14k.
• Why run slow? Bec you get the same endurance benefit but lessen injury risk and receovery time compared to a faster run.

5 Marathon Books that Lit Recommends:

Then, we were off on a 55 minute run following the TBR Dream Marathon Training Program by Coach Jim Lafferty.

We split up into 4 groups and applied the run-walk technique with varying intervals per group.

We were like a mini-race with Gatorade stations at both the start and midway point of our run.

We ended with a cool down led by Coach John Lozada.

No better way to cover the long runs than with fellow future marathoners, right?  It was great fun.  Until the next time!

– with TBRDM Batch 2 alumni “Kots Mike” and Macel, volunteer pacer Miriam, Jun, and Lit –