Pick UP the PACE

My first fun run alone. It's supposed to be my August run but because of the inclined weather that month, it was pushed on September. Pick UP the Pace is a fun run organized by Engineering students of UP Diliman. I was supposed to be accompanied by my brother for the whole race but because of his sudden affection with alcohol before that day, he wasn't able to wait for me. Haha. This is my first run, using my new Nike Lunar Victory and Nike+. Well, that made my run alot better. Haha!

I know I'm babbling so much words now, so enough of it and let's proceed to the pictures. Hehe

And ta-dah! What I won for the race. :) My first ever earned medal for a running event. I was able to in the top 40 of my category. And for some that is still wondering where did I got the Forever 21 GC, it was a price for Patricia Prieto's giveaway in collaboration with SM Mall of Asia. :) I picked it up the same day as my race day so I guess it made sense that I have it here, right? :) TPH

Get Fit, Run

I know I should blog about this a week ago, but because of  the queues of pending schoolwork that I need to finish before its deadline, I happened to postpone it a little too much. Enough of my blog routine of saying sorry for not blogging regularly, I still have tons of things to say about this one. It is something big! Just kidding. Anyways, it is about this, uhm, lets just say a mini marathon. I've already post last time our choice of having this new healthy lifestyle. So in addition to our regular exercise and a little diet, we decided to join run and marathon. We've been eyeing to this since our first run, Run For Ilog Pasig. I mean, we wanted to join more race, but because of our lazy tactics, we never had the chance to join another race, that year. So, now that we started this crazy lifestyle, we were able to join one.

Get Fit, RUN is a wellness race event that was held last July 8 at Quirino Grandstand. It was event organize buy HyperSports that wanted to promote and encourage everyone to live a healthy and balanced lifestyle through fitness and sports. Get Fir Run was there first major road race event that gone through with the theme Get Fit Now, Get Into Sports. My brother and his friends took the 5k run while I, a very lazy individual, took the 3k run. Haha! Well, enough of the talk and introduction. I'll just post some pictures I was able to capture during the event.

Mainstream Kuya Mang Tataho. I think about 20 Taho Vendors was in the event before the race starts.

I was together with my my brother and two of his friends in the event. My brother is the one at the middle, by the way.

I've playing around before the race. Lol

And yes! I made it to the finish line. I would be shamed of if I wasn't able to. :) TPH

Run The World

Last November, ABS-CBN Foundation with other collaborators organized an event called "Run For Ilog Pasig" which aims the development of the Ilog Pasig. People over 80,000 united to run for a cause. I am not actually a fan of marathon or any running event but as a part of our curriculum in our NSTP, I was able to join the said event and I am very thankful that our course introduced this to us because it is a privilege to be a part of something big like this. So we are all able to finish the race! This is good thing for the health too! lol.

So this is my picture after the race. I look haggard and tired after running (ehem, just walking, ehem) 5km. I wore our NSTP shirt because it is a requirement but to spice it up. I wore a neon pink board shorts from OP to make my outfit shine.

And of course, we finished it! This is a proof! lol

As a part of our activity in NSTP, we are required to answer these questions: 

What have you learned from this activity?

Everything we see in this world is part of God's plan and gift for us and as the only creature that has the gift of knowledge, we are to protect this given gifts for us. This activity shows us that we must not take these things for granted. We may may not able to do big things to stop the damage but if we all do small things to do it, we will be able to not just stop the damage but we will be able to maintain the beauty of our nature.

What can you do to address this environmental issue?

We should let everyone see what this river looked like before we damaged it with our trashes. We should let them see how beautiful it is before this damages came. Restoring it might look really hard but if we let them see the past achievements in restoring the river, we can let them see that it is not impossible to return it back to the original beautiful river it was back then.

How can you educate others or raise awareness about this environmental issue?

As Michael Jackson's song goes,  "If you want to make the world a better place, take a look in yourself and make a change". Everything must start within ourselves and to make the people aware of this environmental issues, we must let the people see what each and everyone of us can do to stop this. We should set a good example for everyone to start and do the right thing and make the change.

TPH