I Want to Run!

Monday, July 5, 2010

Silliman Run 2010

My Alma Mater, Silliman University will celebrate its 109th Founder's Day Celebration on August 28. While our fellow Sillimanians will have their merry-making in the Campus by the Sea in Dumaguete City, here in Cebu, Sillimanians will celebrate our own by participating in the Silliman Run 2010.

According to family friend Ms. PQ Cafe of Visayas Community Medical Center, the Silliman Run 2010 will be on Sunday, August 22 and will start and finish at the Ayala Terraces. The race have 3K, 5K and 10K distances and the registration is pegged at P250. The runner gets singlet, race bib, a certificate and painit along with photo ops with fellow Sillimanians. This fun run will help raise funds for educational scholarships.

So if you are a Sillimanian or a friend of one, let's run this August. Nikia and I will definitely run for Silliman!

Banner Logo from www.su.edu.ph

Here's a short fact about my Alma Mater:

Silliman University (also referred to as Silliman or SU) is a Christian private research university located in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, Philippines. Established in 1901 by American missionaries, it was the first Protestant and American private school to be founded in the country. The University is named after Dr. Horace Brinsmade Silliman, a retired businessman and philanthropist from Cohoes, New York who gave the initial sum of $10,000 to start the school. For the first half of the 20th century, Silliman was run and operated by Americans. After the Second World War Filipinos began to assume more important positions culminating in the appointment of Silliman's first Filipino president in 1952.

Today, the University comprises ten colleges, four schools, and two institutes, enrolling approximately over 8,700 students from different parts of the Philippines and over 26 foreign countries. It is registered as a National Landmark by the National Historical Institute, and is one of few private higher education institutions in the Philippines that have been granted autonomy by the Commission on Higher Education. In a report released by the Professional Regulation Commission and the Commission on Higher Education which covered a ten-year period, Silliman was ranked 4th in the country following three schools of the University of the Philippines. It is also ranked among the top 150 universities in Asia in International Students' Review by the QS Quacquarelli Symonds, an institution that ranks the world's top universities. (from Wikipedia)

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Crossing Bridges

A few days ago, Dailymiler Jack Daniel Morilla created a route for what to be our first SLD. It's gonna cross 3 cities and 3 bridges. About 11 runners converged early this morning take that challenge. Most of us are first-timers doing SLD and Tri-City Run and crossing those bridges.

The original distance was calculated thru Dailymile at 24kms starting at the Pioneer House at the Cebu Business Park up to the Old Mactan-Mandaue Bridge then to the Marcelo Fernan Bridge and then the new Cansaga Bridge in Mandaue City. But half of the group decided to cross 2 bridges only and go back to Cebu City.

It was a success. Nikia's performance was superb!

But one of the most important thing happened there was when Dailymilers converged and took the challenge. We don't even have their contact numbers and fullnames but because of Dailymile, we were able to unite and run. This morning's run were the members of the Buang Runners Club headed by Jack Daniel. We also met with fellow Dailymilers Kenneth, Boyet, Richard, Richelieu, Eric, Jay, John, Marlou and Weng (our only Dailymile muse) and Dan and Marben who were our lead runners. Most, if not all of us who ran this morning, were also Ungo Runners.

Today's run commenced as my first practice run for the 34th Milo Marathon Cebu Eliminations. I will ran my first half-Mary on September 5. This run also marked my 200th kms in my mileage. My Dailymile registered less than the 200th mark because I was only a member last March.

I made a video blog too (sort of!)... and posted them at the DM site.

You can check out the videos in my DM site: http://www.dailymile.com/people/katol

Success!

Me, Jack, Weng, Jan, Boyet & Ken.
Photo courtesy of http://www.dailymile.com/people/kdr

Monday, June 28, 2010

Photoblog: the Planet Sports Run experience

Since I’m a nocturnal (I work at 12midnight till 9 in the morning), I wasn’t able to participate in the Planet Sports Run. So I decided to let Nikia take some rest and brought Mikaela instead to take some photos with me. Mikaela is my Nikon D70s DSLR camera. And yes! while Nikia has her own running blog, Mikaela has her own photoblog as well -- A Tribute to Mikaela

Mikaela took photos of runners and spectators alike. We then decided to write a photo story and post it in Nikia’s page. In this post, you’ll see different kinds of runners (and I created their own moniker. peace!).

So, one day at Planet Earth... runners converged at the starting line..

ok.. mag-exercise tayo tuwing umaga. tuwing umaga, tuwing uamaga...

Runners! Ready! Set.....

Go!!!

of course, the competitive runners are always up front....

and the rest follows...

so we wait...

and this cute kid is waiting too...

the Running Kiddos- early finishers of the 3K race... and they're KIDS!!!
darn, they're fast!

Simon Liosaboi (left) first to arrive (as expected!) in the 10K race. and the one on the right was one of the first finishers in the 5K race. very fast too!