Pace: 08:00/km
Duration: 1:20:++
Location: CCP, Roxas Boulevard
Buddy: myself
After weeks of love-hate relationship with the road, I didn't show up in this race. It felt very shameful. The decision had been very painful for me. But this was the best I could think of.
Me and my favorite running buddy/friend decided to support our other runner friend in her 50km ultramarathon run. This was the same day as the Nike run, except for the start time of these two events. The ultra started at 4am and ended at noon. While Nike run was to start at 9pm.
However, there was almost a hundred kilometer distance between these two places, and so sleep and rest became a problem for us. I did not consider the resting time, that I later estimated to be just 2 hours. This was not enough, even if we will just run 10km. We have not slept for at least 20 hours; beginning from the preparation to traveling back to the city.
Instead of risking our health, I called for a mission abortion and went home, take a bath and then slept for 9 hours. After which, I returned to the road and get back to training. It was still lousy and lazy, but a lousy and lazy run is better than no run at all.
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| Thank you stranger for this photo of my lazy run with Rizal Monument and SMDC on back ground |
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