Running with my not so much of a bad-ass Shoes

There was something about the full moon last weekend that I feel inclined to do some blogging today. Last Satruday was largely uneventful, save for the fact that I attended the UPOU Orsem in the morning and that my friend Sandee and I started training together that afternoon. We are gearing up for the June 12 run, my first official "marathon" and I figured it's time to shift from the treadmill to a real road. She runs regularly at UP and I decided to tag along. She says the trees were her entertainment. I, on the other hand, have grown comfortable at the gym. This shift is actually good for me because I need to get used to running on concrete. I've been maintaining a good system so far, combining running with walking, shifting from sprints to a slow jog and keeping to the 5k-under-45 minute rule. So as I waited for Sandee to arrive, she was about an hour late, I watched the runners.

Apparently, this is where some of the hardcore runners and the newbies are. There was an eclectic mix of "exercisers", from the really young to the really old. Much has changed since I last ran here, two years ago to be exact. The one-way traffic thing really helps, people have some room to overtake each other or maintain an even run in spite of the high volume of people. I also noticed that the sidewalk is now paved and evenly set, mind you, I've tripped on my feet at least twice before when said sidewalks had potholes. Now they're nice and even, which is good for clumsy runners like me.

Sandee told me that the whole route is exactly 2k. She has this high tech gadget attached to her bad-ass marathoning shoe (yep, bad-ass) that records the distance that she covered, the speed and I think even the gradient of her run. I told her, that's better than how I monitor my run on the treadmill. Her shoe kicked my shoe's ass. Whereas the only pimping I could do to my running shoes was buying it clamps so that the ties won't release during the run. I was surprised to hear that the whole route was only 2k, it only means, I cover the 2k easier on a real road than on a treadmill. Yey for concrete roads. Apparently, I can do a full-run 2k in 15 minutes. That to me was amazing. We were only able to cover 4k, or 2 rounds, that day because she had to make her way home, I on other hand had a long drive too.

I noticed the full moon feels low, like it was closer to the earth or something. It probably has some significance somewhere. So yeah, after running with Sandee, I was so pumped up that I actually bought raw ingredients from the grocery and cooked dinner from SCRATCH at home. Everything was prepared from scratch, from my favorite Japanese rice, my favorite processed protein of Hotdogs, my unique coriander and red egg salad, to my coke zero infused with lemon. I credit this to the full moon. Probably, the one and only time in a while that I actually wanted to be in the kitchen for my own nutrition.

I probably won't be training today, as we are understaffed and at the same time I have to report for work. I could feel all the aches and pains now because I didn't run yesterday, usually these are masked by the high endorphin levels that I maintain because of my running. I was so lazy yesterday that I ended up watching old episodes of Crystal Maze all morning and spending the afternoon with the girls.

My right knee's now killing me, must load on the potassium real soon.