Bong Pagong

[...] was at 12 degrees Celsius, too cold for my race at 9 am, the 8th annual running of the Alfie Shrubb 8K Classic in Bowmanville, Ontario . Over breakfast and coffee, I thought that going back to [...]

[...] huffing and puffing all around me , picture taking, food, my kind of day. My next race is the Alfie Shrubb 8k Classic on June 06, 2010 at Bowmanville, Ontario. [...]

[...] , a fast time for my standard. That run gives me a little bit of confidence in completing the Alfie Shrubb 8k on June 5 (in exactly 1 week) under 1 hour. Last year, I finished the race in 54 minutes [...]

[...] Kuya Freddie with Ate Chi and his sisters Jeric and Jojo in his favorite part of his house, the kitchen [...]

[...] Had a fun time running the Toronto Sporting Life 10k with friends and more than 12,000 others in downtown Toronto on a cold, windy, [...]

[...] all yellow - Coldplay must have foreseen this yellow revolution. Today, I just ran the Toronto Sporting Life 10K, the biggest race in Ontario, with close to 12 thousand other runners. In the [...]

[...] (got carried away and added 3ks to the 7k i initially planned to run) My next race is the Toronto Sporting Life 10K on May 1, 2011. [...]

[...] to do the job for me. Here, their (carpenters/painters) services are too expensive. The start area at the corner of Trinity and Front Streets in Toronto, the CN Tower in the background. The [...]

[...] 5k was. There were sufficient race staff to help participants find parking, guide them to the start area. The race announcer kept the crowd up to date and pumped up while warming up minutes before the [...]

[...] none of the participants posted a faster time than the 24:33 he did in 1904. I proceeded to the start area 5 minutes before the race hoping that the rain would stop. Most runners who were there wore [...]

[...] the community. These young people spent their Sunday helping runners by volunteering in the water stations. There was a hydration station at 2 kilometer intervals in this race and I noticed gels being [...]

[...] a few hundred, started running along the streets of residential areas close to the mosque. Water stations were strategically located almost every 1 and a half k, and young volunteers enthusiastically [...]

[...] , those on the right and the 5kers on the left. More volunteers serving the runners at the water stations,which were strategically located every 2k with more than enough cups of cold water and [...]

[...] with no pressure to finish fast, I still looked fresh and happy here. Our heroes, the young volunteers who unselfishly give their time and energy for free to make life easier for runners [...]

[...] to the mosque. Water stations were strategically located almost every 1 and a half k, and young volunteers enthusiastically provided the drinks, some of them I noticed wearing bib numbers on their [...]

[...] instead of placing the chip on the runner's shoe or around the ankle. The yellow brigade of young volunteers were hard at work early preparing to assist runners in the race with hydration (gatorade or [...]

[...] there, and my running life goes on. Thinking about running the 5k race at the Toronto Marathon weekend in October or the 10k Zoo run. The shorter distance races should get me into the [...]