Last Saturday i attended a seminar of disaster preparedness. In the beginning of the presentation, the lecturer discussed two kind of disasters i.e. natural disaster and man-made disaster. In this post, i want to talk about man-made disaster in a different perspective that was just happened this morning in the parking area of IMAX MOA.

I was still lining up with many many runners for check in of the 6th Animo Run 10k run. The organizer were using two scanner machines which connected to two notebooks to scan the bar codes in our bib number and suddenly the emcee start to count down for the race to begin. 10…9… runners begin to shout out, waving their hands to stop the count down, 8… 7… several runners start to really shout, 6… 5… 4… i saw few marshals try to stop the counting by approaching the emcee but due to hundreds of runner in the starting area, it seems to me, they couldn’t reach the emcee, 3… 2…. 1… bang!!! i haven’t reach the guy with the scanner yet. One minutes after the gunshot, the guy was able to scanned the bar code in my bib. When i left that guy, still many runners waiting to be scanned.

… and that was man-made disaster

I first met Jinoe and Quennie when i got to MOA this morning. I left my apartment and start waiting for a bus at 3am this morning. Unfortunately, the bus showed up at 3.45am. I was already doing my warm up by standing 45 minutes this morning. After meeting the two of them, i proceeded to the baggage area to wait for Ronnie for my bib number. Don’t wanna waste my time while waiting, i start to do a little warm up and some stretching which i learned during the speed training of the Team BaldRunner.

Later, i met Vener and his wife and Nora aka life begins at 50 for the first time. Thanks to Jinoe who introduced me to her.

I plan to break my PR this morning. However, i was not able to do that. This morning, i finish the 10.18km according to GF305 in 43minutes56seconds, 8seconds slower then my best time. My pace this morning was 4.1, perhaps if i could increased it to 4.0 or 3.9, which i feel i could still do that, i could have been break my PR.

Now, i understand that the speed training is really works to my race this morning. Coach Salazar taught me on how to run well. The feet landing should not be on heel because that’s a wrong way of landing. So in the first 2-3kms i tried to land on the front part. I was like flying when i did that and my pace was fast (3.06) and later you can guess what was happening, i came back to my way of running, landing on the heel and it slows me down to 4.1. I’m just not use to it and i know that is something i should master.

… another lesson to learned.

While waiting Ronnie, i met Taki. He finish the 5k in 21minutes+ and that was fast!

I was able to met the Meek Runner and Running Fat Boy also and that was my first time to meet them.

photo-ops muna…

with vener and taki

with Neil, vener and friend’s of neil

with Ronnie – thanks a lot bro!!!

First time to meet Running Fat Boy

Takbo.ph

The Meek Runner, Nora, HA, Taki, Running Fat Boy, Vener, Jinoe and friend

with Ellen Tolentino (4th place 10k winner) and Pj (new found mountaineer friends)