Enervon Prime Memo Race

It was quite a while since I tried racing a 5km run. But lately for weeks, since the rain has been terribly disturbing my training, I had zero long runs, and most of my runs would only last 5km. Good thing Memo race fitted well as a tune up race.

Joining Memo race was somehow unintentional. It was my dear wife who suggested joining the race last week after we attended the Mizuno run clinic. And I’m glad I joined it.

The race was organized by Unilab and proceeds would be given to the elderly at Paranaque. Contrary to other races, the distribution of giveaways began even before the race started. There were quite plenty of giveaways, and this did not include the loot bag that was given after the race.

We took a couple of giveaways before we had our bibs checked, and we didn’t have time to do our warm up. I told wifey that I’d be working hard well during the race since I have been training less for the past couple of weeks. So I told her that I wouldn’t be pacing along with her. As the gun sounded I started running the course trying to overtake as many runners us I can. The route was quite familiar, and according to my watch had quite an accurate distance. I finished at 20:04 and received my loot bag after crossing the finish. I saw my auntie Maricar who was there supporting my cousin Eirene who also joined the race. We talked for a while as I was waiting for my wife. After my wife finished the race at a very good time of 30:52, we still tried to get as much giveaways as we can after the race including a Jollibee hamburger. The only thing we skipped due to a very long queue of line was the free photo booth.

Again, if races are organized by Extribe, you can’t go wrong (almost). We had a short and sweet run with plenty of freebies and it pretty much made our day.

Action and Fitness Magazine

Truth be told and I've been a recent fan of the Action and Fitness Magazine. It's not because of their feature celebrity cover, but because this magazine is serious about promoting health, fitness and sports.

I've already got 3 issues and so far, I've been getting tons of tips and future sport endeavors from them. The best part is for P120 you'll definitely get your money's worth. Oh, you would even get a better bargain if you subscribe for 6 months or 12 months which is what I'm planning to do soon.

Last Saturday and Sunday (May 10 and 11) Action and Fitness magazine and other sponsors held a fitness event at the Fort Bonifacio High Street. The very first event was the 5K fun run, and I'm definitely in for this event. Since the Champion run would be on Sunday, I treated this fun run as an easy 5K in preparation for Sunday's event. I carried the 5min/km pacer flag and ran 4x around the Bonfacio High Street pacing with kuya Melvin. We finished 23mins and 53 seconds. Well it’s a little over the 5min/km target but I've measured the Bonifacio High Street loop and its 4.8KM only so I'm was almost running at a 5min/km and maybe just a few seconds faster.

The event was really fun and not to mention there were tons of sponsors. There were lots of freebies as well such as free flowing Aktivade, Sola, and to top all a free Action and Fitness Magazine! I've even been fortunate that they have been distributing different issues so I chose the issue that I still don't have.

The fun run was just the kick off event and there were plenty more such as the Navara Adventure, Wall Climbing contests by Tribu, and booths featuring many fitness gadgets including the Suunto watches.

Congratulations to Action and Fitness Magazine and to all the sponsors who participated in the event. Oh, and congratulations also to the MC, George Rocha who happens to be a crush back during my college days at La Salle.

This was my Saturday story... Now for my Sunday story at the 2nd Champion run is up next...