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Ateneo Aquathlon 2010: Josiah’s Perspective

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I’ve been waiting for my first aquathlon for almost a year and now I am a proud finisher of an aquathlon. By experience, now I know that it is true what they said about aquathlons, it’s twice as demanding as running and the experience was also twice the fun.

The race started at 11:30am for my age category and when the start was near it was all mixed excitement for my first aquathlon and fear that I won’t finish. The plan was simple, do not care about the pace of others and go with my own speed, my goal is just to finish.

It was 600 meters of swim first. Think about 100 men swimming on an 8 lane 25 meter pool, the probability of competitors bumping each other was very high. It was a good thing that my cousin, Enna a member of Trantados, briefed me well on this. I got kicked on the face and I got bumped many times, but it was OK, it was all unintentional (I hope). I think I also kicked someone, revenge is sweet. Just joking, it was all unintentional.

Diving on my second round

Diving on my second round

TNF Thrill of the Trail

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TNF Thrill of the Trail

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It was the most awaited day of the year of each couple in the world. This is the time when the couples could have a whole day for themselves and celebrate the month of hearts. But how about the single people, like myself, who are seeking for another way to celebrate the Valentine’s Day? Well, we opted to join the much awaited TNF Thrill of the Trail in Nuvali, Sta. Rosa, Laguna.

Condura Run 2010

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I am now a proud finisher of a half-marathon (21 km run). Though my time is really not that fast, I still have finished the race. How I got to run the Condura Run? Check the story below

The Decisiong Making

One of my target for 2010 is to do aquathlons and run on the Skyway which was only offered by Condura Run. So when I looked at the dates of the events, the first aquathlon, PSC Aquathlon, was scheduled for February 7 and the Condura Run 2010 was also scheduled for February 7. We need to gain experience for the aquathlon so we prioritized the PSC Aquathlon over the Condura Run.

On January 16, 2010 I joined the Salomon Mountain Run arranged by the Philippine Skyrunning Association, this is where I heard that the PSC Aquathlon was cancelled. After confirming that the PSC Aquathlon was cancelled, which took us about 3 days, we quickly and excitedly registered for the half-marathon of Condura Run. The problem was the maximum distance that I was training was only 8.1 kilometers since we were training for an aquathlon, and there was only less than 3 weeks to prepare for a half marathon.

The Training

Upon registration we quickly planned on how we will proceed with our training since we really had a very small schedule before the run.