I went to UP this morning to do a trial run for the Runnex@25. I thought it wouldn’t start on time so I left the house around 5:45 and got to UP at around 6:20am. I texted Coach Rio that I was already there but he wasn’t replying. Apparently, they had already started the run. Coach had gotten a handful of participants to don a race bib and do the course route for next Sunday’s Runnex@25. He also logged in their times.

Anyway, when they had finished their trial run (which I was not able to join ) Coach told me to do 10k. Two laps of the ICTUS Century route. So without any warm up, I started running. I was ok for the first km. Then the second km seemed a bit harder but I pushed myself. By the time I got to 3.5km it was weird but I was out of breath and I was slowing down. Around 4km mark, I had stopped and decided to do some stretching. Instead of running or jogging, I decided to walk and head to Manang’s in front of the Faculty Center (FC) where Coach also has his registration booth on weekdays. I got myself a Gatorade.

After somewhat feeling refreshed, I ran again, only to do 3/4 round of the academic oval then stopped at a Runnex water station in front of Benitez Hall (College of Education). After supposedly getting refreshed once more, I tried to run… operative word is tried. WHAT WAS HAPPENING?! All this training the past week and then now this .

At that point, I decided it was useless to push myself. I felt beat. What a disaster and such a patethic showing for today. I guess all of us have these training stumps that we get once in a while.

Later, I’ll be running 10km again. This time in my village with its share of inclines and declines. My pride can’t take that I ended up walking the last km of a 5km route. As in the movie, 300, “Spartans!… Prepare for Glory! Ahhh-oooh!”Hehehe! ( <— This is actually my alarm tone )

Oh, I saw the loony runner again while I was running in UP. Hi there loonyrunner