MENS HEALTH ALL TERRAIN RACE

This race was done at Sta Elena in Cabuyao Laguna, very near from my place but still I woke up before 4am to prepare. I have to prepare myself for the Trail run at 540AM and my Mt.Bike for the bike race at 09:00AM. This time im joining both trail run and Mt. bike race in one single venue….Certified addict????hahaha

Below were the pictures taken….

Pre race picture with the gang

Team Takbo.ph

Great smiles....

Great runners....

Another Pre race pix

Just before the gun fire

I have a few on race photos below. Thanks to Jinoe and the group of ellen who were on photo ops that time enjoying the view.

Thanks Jinoe for this pix

In this picture above….I was pacing Moly (guy at the right)……

Thanks to argo for this photo

STOP and POSE....

The kind of Trail we ran....

Post trail race photo..

This is the only team photo i had after the trail race as I was very busy preparing my equipment for the bike race. I had other photos just before the bike race started. See below:

Kulitan with team Takbo before the bike race

Ready for the bike race

Zaldy, Ed, Mark and Me

Ready for the race men

Homestretch...Near the finish line

All exhausted after the bike race

Another photo after the bike race

It was indeed a great race. Trail run is great and tiring, road obstacles were everywhere. The Mt. bike race was also great. Imagine a single track winding, muddy road where you have to struggle to get ahead of others……Interesting….

Guns and Garmins

It was wednesday, June 10, 2009. It was supposedly my practice day at the firing range in preparation for the August AustralAsia Competition. But i changed plans and gave this time to my bike buddies who wanted to experience shooting. I send the day off for  my bike buddies to go  for a gun clinic at our home range. My bike buddies longed for this event. I told them i will be holding a gun clinic and coaching first time for FREE for them so everybody really looked forward to this day.

At 9am we met up at Paseo De Sta Rosa and headed to the firing range. I also invited the fellow current revolver king of the PPSA revolver division of the Philippine team to introduce to them.  I remembered it right, it was more than 4 years ago that i am inviting Erwin (revolver king) to join me run or at least bike but havent joined me. This time i am bringing with me my biker/runner buddies to persuade him bike if not run with us.

We arrived at the range at 0930H and immediately started the gun safety seminar for them followed by the basic gun handling, stance, target acquisition, dry firing and finally the one on one live firing.

Ed, Zaldy and me just arrived and waiting for mark

Zaldy, Mark and me

Revolver Kings on both sides: In are Zaldy, Ed and Mark

Show time....

Engaging the steel plates

The quick reload

Below are pictures of the buddies on the shoot….

Picture conscious....look at that smile

Ed under pressure!!!

Mark engages his targets

Mark aka Knightrunner and Runnermhel

Mark quoted saying ” If there’s Runner45 -the shooter turned runner then there will be The Knightrunner-The runner who will be a shooter” hahahahaha.

GUNS AND GARMINS

Guns and Garmins still together……inseparable for Runner45…..

Intervals: WW24 Hill Training at Cardiac Hill

From the lesson I learned after running the Botak Baguio run that I needed hill training. I set schedule for myself to hit the Cardiac Hill for the hill training. I allocated the whole week from June 8 to 12 to do the hill training.

Last monday was not a good start of the week  for me as I woke up on the other side of the bed.  I woke up with a little cough and colds  and because office issues started to ruin the peacefullness of my sunday evening that boils down till the whole of monday. The whole of monday is a rainy one. My biker buddies (Zaldy , Mark aka Knightrunner , and Ed ) and I agreed to meet up at the top of the cardiac hill at 1630H for hill training. They will do hill training on their bikes while i do my running training. Rain or shine we will go…..

Below are few pictures we had at the hill….. JUNE 8, 2009.

Mark aka Knightrunner the early bird

We arrived on time and as we parked at the tip of the hill, I saw Mark traversing from the other side of the hill. He arrived ahead of us.

Mark climbing back the hill

 

My Bike buddies: Ed leading the trail. Mark and Zaldy behind

My buddies: Zaldy and Mark

Knightrunner joined me on my last lap

Rain didnt stop us....

Whoooo.....

Near the finish line- the tower

Push.....almost there

We have more pictures together before we leave the Hills……

Zaldy, Ed and Mark

Zaldy, Ed and Me...

That was all for monday June 8, 2009…..

INTERVALS: HILL TRAINING JUNE 09, 2009

We were up the hill again tuesday June 09 , 2009. Below are the pictures. These time I did 3x hill repeats….

Picture taken on my last lap

3 reps....really tiring

Exhausted !!!

Near my finishline- Tower

INTERVALS: HILL TRAINING JUNE 10 , 2009

Up the hills again wednesday at 1630H. Interval hill training 4 reps…..

Up the hill

come on push.....

Wheeew....

Almost there.....

more....more....

Tower here i come.....

Finally......

Great run this day……On thursday again…..

Mizuno Infinity Run

I was supposed to set a new PR for 10K at this run. My last 10K race mode was last year and this would be my 2nd 10K race for the year only. I have enjoyed running longer distances since 2009. BongZ sms me and asked me if I can run and pace a newbie runner running this race. Since the rest of the days of the past two weeks was really a non runner friendly weather, lots of rains day in and day out, no runs for two weeks after the Baguio run and too busy with work, I immediately agreed to him. At least this run can be a chillax one for me this time but with target time set for the newbie.  Rhods target finish time is 1:05 for the 10KM.

As the gun fired for the 10KM run, we started moving at a pace slower than what I intend to maintain for our run for the first 1KM. After which I stepped a little on the gas as we ascended the Kalayaan flyover. I was observing Rhods how she tackled the uphill flyover and she was doing fine so from time to time I sped up and she was catching up with the pace which was good.  She told me that she wanted to take some water and intended to grasp one at the second water station before the turn around. So as we approached the second water station, we slowed down and there she grasped a cup of water then we proceeded accelerating afterwards.  There came the turnaround point as i checked the time, we were way up  our target as we covered the first half in 29:11 mins (I was actually eyeing to push her to flat 1:00 if she will be capable) . I told her that we will maintain our pace at 6:15 to 6:30 for the recovery for the preparation of the uphill kalayaan flyover. I told Rhods that we will push a bit at the uphill part most likely at 6:00 to 6:05 pace.  She again told me that she’ll be grasping a drink before the uphill so there we slowed down again. Here comes the uphill part now. I was observing Rhods as I sped up the flyover, she’s catching up with me so from time to time I am looking at my side or behind to check her up and good thing she was pushing well to catch up with the pace. I continued with the pace and when i looked back I found her almost  5om away from me so I slowed down and waited for her.  When she catched up with me, I asked her if she can still push after a short recovery, but she told me she can no longer pushed and she’s a bit grasping for her breath. From this point I decided to maintain the pace at 6:20. After some time almost near the last intersection, I told her that we should accelerate on the last 2KM to catch up with the losses we had but she told me she can no longer speed up. Thats fine with me, so I did a speed up slow down strategy that she was able to catch up. When we crossed the finish line, it was 1:02 on my watch and she was very happy for that accomplishement. She aimed  a 1:05 and yet she was pushed to a 1:02.  Great accomplishment for both of us.

See a few pix below:

Mizuno Finish Line

At the Finish Line

Souther Peeps and my bike buddy Mark(Knightrunner) on the rightmost

Takbo.ph peeps

Jay and Mark at the leftmost

Magel, Carly, Mhel and Chris M

Great run peeps…..

BAGUIO BOTAK RUN

Late posting too busy……Id rather spend my remaining times running than writing….Running addict? hahahahhaa

Well, it was a very memorable and exciting times with the Takbo.ph peeps when we joined the BOTAK RUN in Baguio. It was a great bonding time with the team and a great race route especially the 3KM uphill…..

There was one thing I have learned from this race. I need hill training…….Honestly in my running years I never had any hills included in my training runs  except those hills that race routes includes.  Let me just share you the pictures we had there. The race and happenings as well……

Before Taking Off- Shangrila Mall Parking

After the Carboloading Party at Team Logan's Place

Before the race starts

Pre race pics

Team Takbo at the 1st half

On the GO

Wow were still energetic hahaha

At almost the end of Killer Hills

A few meters away the finish line

Mhel, Bong and Carlo after Race

Legs....Jinoe , Mhel and Carlo

Jinoe,Luis,Mhel,Doc roy, Edu

Takbo Peeps, thanks for the friendship and camaraderie…….I really enjoy running with runners like all of you. GO TEAM TAKBO.PH

CARDIAC HILL- Mountainbikers Spot- Soon to be conquered by TAKBO.PH

I’m doing this post for the takbo.ph peeps. The Cardiac Hill which is a favorite Mountain biker spot in Sta.Rosa, Laguna is the next target of the TAKBO.PH team for the next South LSD.

The route if we are to start from my place and back would be around 40 to 42KM. The first 10km would be flat and slowly going uphill towards the foot of the cardiac hill.

Friends, this route is a mixed road and trail route (dirt road). So be ready of what type of shoes you need to wear during this LSD. No need to worry as there are bike stops ahead that offers fresh buko and gatorades.

The schedule might be on July for this as im a bit tied up the whole month of June. I’ll be coordinating with Pojie on the schedule of this LSD. I hope a lot would come…..

I have posted a few pictures below….

CARDIAC HILL 432m elevation

That is Cardiac Hill with 432m elevation. That’s my Mountainbiker friend Zaldy ahead….

Zaldy and Rene at the stopover before Cardiac Hill

I do thumbs up while Rene do the other way hehehe

Rene pushing his bike up the Cardiac Hill

"Hey give me a lift please!!!"

Thats me on top with a fellow biker

Pix with fellow bikers on top

At a stopover along the way with Rene

With Zaldy my biking buddy

Finally…..

" I AM STRONG"- huh.they didnt know i walked the Cardiac hehe

See you guys at the next South LSD : Conquering Cardiac Hill

Mendez Cavite-Sta.Rosa-Binan LSD

Men, I was really tied up the last few weeks up to now that I really had to slide down posting and joining the takbo peeps at the Shoutbox. From time to time I still check who were those ONLINE at SB and just comment a few then bid goodbye…

Well, let me write shortly about the subject matter mentioned above. The Mendez Cavite – Sta. Rosa – Binan LSD with the team Takbo.ph.

The South LSD was placed into the drawing board right after the Greenfield city run (April 19) when we had our first get together at our place right after the run.  The team was looking forward to have a run again at the South area and have my place as the end point of the run. Well right after the Greenfield run, a new topic was already posted in the thread about the South LSD which is to kick of at the month of May. Of course, it was no other than our Mr. Hoff POJIE who organized this LSD. ( Cheers to you sir). With the great help of our Speedy Doctor Eric, we were able to have a place where we could have as our starting point which was at Mendez Cavite.

Rodel , Sam, Mhel , Rod, Dr. Topher , and Gab waiting at Caltex Stn Sta. Rosa 3am

 

As arranged, Dr. Topher coming from Meycauayan Bulacan would be picking me up at 3AM at my place. He was on time and we went to meet the other runners at the Caltex station in Sta rosa – tagaytay road to wait for the rest who were brave enough to start at Mendez Cavite. We took several pix before Dr. Eric came up to fetch us up.

At Dr. Eric's place minutes before the start of the run

The teams were divided into several groups. Group 1 starting from Mendez Cavite (KM 0), those at the pix above were all from group 1. Group 2 would start from Tagaytay rotonda and thats Jinoe and Gerry. Group 3 were those running from Paseo going to PNPA in silang, and joining the Groups 1&2 to Paseo and Binan. Group 4 will be running from Paseo to Adventist university,  and will be waiting for the big group going to Binan. Group 5 will be starting off from paseo.

Warm up walk - DOGS

At the road before the run starts

On the roads of Mendez Cavite- Late start at 5am

5AM at the roads of Mendez Cavite

As usual, a pack of runners have different running paces and thresholds. And because of the late start of 5am, we have decided to break down the Group 1 into several groups again as you will notice in the succeeding photos. Others prefered to run a bit faster than others.

The Leading Pack

The first pack of runners reaching PNPA- Jerry,Jinoe,Mhel,Luis,Raymond

Running would not be complete if there was no picture taking at stops and fusing points. Here we took a 10minute break to stretch and refuel. Thanks for the rest of the pictures i grabbed.

REFUEL - Jerry, Mhel and Jinoe

Jinoe and Me

Fusion of Groups 1,2 & 3 at PNPA

Groups 1,2 &3

From here we started running towards paseo de sta rosa. Group 4 waited for us then we run all together to Paseo were we will finally wait for the sweepers and have our cold gatorades and stretching.

At this point when all the groups were settled. Most preferred to take their cars going to my place because the sun is really scourging hot. Of course the ADDICTS continued running from Paseo to Verdana Mamplasan. It was Jerry, Me, Raymond, Pojie from Group 1 and Queenie and Carly from Groups 4 and 5 respectively braved the 11am sun from Paseo to Binan Laguna.

The next few pics were taken feasting on our meals and of course the class pix.

Team Pix at home

Team pix again

Kulitan at the lanai area

Dr. Topher

Jinoe the Strong

Of course, not but not the least…….Class pictures!!!!

Poolside pics

TAKBO.PH TEAM

Better late than never……Sorry for the late post. Back logs …..

Southern Race- ATC 10KM Run

The Southern Race at ATC was fun. My wife Mai and I run. I went for the 10K while Mai went for the 5K. We met our good friends and members of our Takbo.ph forum. This race will be my recovery run to allow my muscles to rest from the two day hard effort bike rides. I brought with me my camera to take pictures of my dear friends……

When the races started, I paced with Neil aka Crashnburn while having a good conversation, when we reached the  2KM mark, Argonaut joined us and I went on taking their pictures.  Queenie came over from behind at KM 3 so we took another pictures below…..

 

Thats Argonaut behind Neil and Me…..

Neil (Crashnburn) with Argonaut

Queenie joins Neil and Argonaut….

I joined Queenie and Argonaut before I sped up and catch the rest….

Here I was able to catch up with Kinderdorf ( Sir Ipe)

By this time catching up with Team Logan (Craig and Justin)

I gave justin a push for a KM while Craig took our pix

After a while Craig hand me over the camera and went on for a conversation. Until i bid goodbye to speed up….

Along the way while Im speeding up, I saw Carlo so I catch up with him and overtook him to take his picture below….

Sorry for this pix Carlo, its shaky….

I continued speeding up and almost 2km away from the finish line I saw Sam the running ninja so I stepped on the gas to catch him up…..

Since its more than a KM away from the finish line as we are almost through with the AAV route,  latched my camera and continue running……

I crossed the finished line then I took a shot of my Garmin below….

After crossing the finish line…..There is my betterhalf waiting for me….

My Betterhalf Mai

Here comes the most awaited Class pictures below:

We still want to linger and join the group but we have a lot of schedules for the day…..

Nice race, good weather, and great running buddies……

Til next race……

Conquered: Cardiac Hill and Coffee Trails of Silang thru Mt. Bike

It was last March when I conquered the Cardiac Hill thru running. It was called Cardiac hill by the mountain bikers because it was so steep that the elevation read out thru my garmin when I run it was 472m. The Cardiac hill is 38Km from my place back and forth.

April 30, thursday when my good friend Zaldy sms me to join him on May 1 at 630am to bike the trails of Silang Cavite particulary the Cardiac hill and the coffee trails. I was then so excited as this would be my first time to bike that route which I have heard a hundred times from the moutainbikers I knew.

The whole day of April 30 was raining and Zaldy told me that if the sun shows up on May 1 then we are pushing thru with the bike ride. I was expecting that the trails will really be so muddy because of the non stop raining and I prepared myself for that ride. I had a short sleep maybe because of excitement. I woke up at my usual waking time of 4am and did my 10km run. At 6am I was ready for the bike ride and waiting for Zaldy to pick me up.

We started from Paseo De Sta Rosa, two other friends of Zaldy (now already my friends) came up, they were Ed Libao and Mark Salvador who were Zaldy’s constant biking buddies. At exactly 714am we started cranking our pedals off to the route….

Along the road of Brgy. Inchikan, Silang Cavite, I chanced up on a group of runners and we exchanged hi and hello’s. After covering a distance of 6+ km of gradual uphill climb, we made a quick stop over as we are about to begin in a few meters the steepest climb…..the Cardiac Hill. The goal is to climb the hill without getting off from the Mt bike. So my buddies told us “galit galit muna tayo ha”. Then we begin the climb.  Man, the hill is really steep, I saw four bikers ahead of us stopped at the middle, took some rest and walked  pushing their bikes up. Mark and Ed were old time bikers and had a lot of times gone to that route and its nothing to them. I was the third to conquer the hill and Zaldy gave up after finishing a quarter of that climb. It was a stop over again while waiting for Zaldy to reach our location.  After a few minutes with Zaldy resting, we proceeded going to the next stop. It was the bukohan or coconut store where we will have fresh buko while relaxing. The route was muddy but not much. This went through til we reach the buko stop where we had fresh buko. The next trails were not easy as they were really deep mud and so slippery. There were downhills and uphills and there were parts that we need a real good balancing especially when we entered the coffee trails. The greatest challenge is to stay up in your bike cruising the muddy trails. We often go stop and go to clear up the accumulated mud from our bike tires. There were even portions of the trail that is not bikeable so we really need to get off from our bikes to hike as our trail shoes goes deep down the mud.  Along the bike trails were fellow bikers, some pushing their bikes as we overtook them. The overall distance we biked was 27.4KM and our bikes were really super dirty after the ride. I even had 2 spokes damaged on my rear wheels maybe because of the super muddy trail.

Below are some of the pictures we had during the trail biking…

 

This pix taken at the mid of the Coffee trails…see the mud, thats nothing.

This was after the muddy challenge……

Soooo dirty…..

At our last stop over…..

Heading home for clean up…..

 

The following day May 2 Saturday, I had a long road bike ride…….81KM in the morning and went to splash island with my whole family til 6pm. With those two day hard effort bike rides and swimming…..I guess I have to do my southern race at ATC for May 3 as my recovery run…….

Love For Shooting….Now Love For Running

Today as the weather restricted me to go out and visit my projects. I placed myself under house arrest and work from home via internet. I  easily got bored sitting down and throwing email reply to inquiries so i decided to do something that will surely make my day pass….. Fix my storage room. As I pulled out my things from the storage room and rack them up out, I sorted them out and place them in their designated locations and do my 5S.  I grouped items related to shooting and running. As I went on picking them up, something went on in my mind and I started taking photos of my gears.

That is Shooting gears Vs. Running Gears….

Below is the picture of my four active bags. Three of which were Range bags / Box that I used for the three shooting divisions that I play (Single Stack Standard Division , Hi capacity Standard Division and Revolver Division), and the other is my running bag.

These are my active bags : Revolver Range Tote ;  Single Stack Range Bag ; Hi Cap Standard Range Bag and my Roadrunner Bag for running.

SHOOTING AND RUNNING : HIT RATE VS. PR

Shooting same as running tackles  time. We hear most shooters as they finished the course of fire ask “What is your time? ” Runners just the same ask for PRs. The difference in shooting is the outcome or overall result does not rely on time alone but by the Hit Rate which is the factor of Power , Speed and accuracy. A shooter can really be fast in tackling a course of fire but the question is , was he able to get good scores (alpha scores) in course? He might have missed shots that corresponds to a minus points.

SHOOTING GEARS : RUNNING GEARS

A. SHOOTING GEARS

Below are my Rigs for the the three divisions I am playing.

These four rigs are for the following:

1. The first is for an SW625 caliber 45 revolver which I am currently using in the revolver division.

2. This second rig is for a SW686 caliber 357 revolver which earned a lot of respect when I first shifted from pistol to revolver.

3. The two remaining rigs are for standard division.  The third is for a single stack 45 caliber and the last is for the hicap division for a Para STI AET Ultimatch 40 caliber and a SV Infinity 40 caliber pistol.

Did you notice something in the picture? The revolver rigs are for right handed person and the pistol rigs are for left handed. Why??  I was born left handed but grew up ambidextrous. Revolver shooting is a lot different from pistol shooting, ( pistol has very little trigger slack compared to revolver that has a very long trigger pull) so for me not to mess up the muscle memory developed in years by my left hand for pistol, I  designated my right hand for the revolver. It was not easy but after rigid training and consistency, I was able to develop an equal skill and speed for my revolver hand. So at any time I want to compete in the two different division, revolver or pistol, I can easily tune up myself for the game without any hassle.

Below are close up pictures of my revolver and pistol rigs bearing my seal.

The picture below is my Standard division rig with my shotgun rig for combat shotgun course.

Here is my cap collection for shooting…. These caps were tailormade to have a tail that covers the nape for heat and sun cover…..

Below is the free cap from fitness first in 2004 when i joined the gym. I have the IPSC logo embroidered….

The picture below is a shooting timer by competition electronics. Like the Garmins and Polar for runners that aid us in training and logging our time, this timer also log in all time related moves. Interval of shot 1 to shot 2 etc  and this is called split , traverse time or the time elapsed when moving from one shooting position to another, draw time or how fast you draw your gun from the holster and fire , and total time finishing a course of fire….

 Below is a picture of my spikes.

and pix of my Oakley Pro M Frame shooting array

B. RUNNING GEARS

Other than apparels with wicking properties, I have the following gears for running…..

 

TRANSITION FROM SHOOTING TO RUNNING

 

Shooting:  Peltor Tactical 5S Electronic – Running: IPOD Mp3

Shooting: Competition Timers – Running: Garmin and Polar trainers

Shooting:  Pistol Rig set – Running: Hydration Belt

Shooting: American Handgunner  and Front Sight Magazine subscription – Running: Runners World Magazine subscription

Wow……time flies so fast….its now late afternoon…

I was thinking what if in one of the races I will be running, I picked up the wrong bag……range bag instead of my running bag….

How would I probably look like????

In running shorts and drifit tops and garmin watch plus running shoes but wearing a shooting rig instead of hydration belt,  a shooting cap with tail instead of dri-fit cap and an electronic ear muff instead of earphones for Ipod….

I guess I would need the help of Pojie aka Mar to help me as I take his picture soon to show this in my next post……

Thanks…..