My adiNation Ortigas Family

Despite being almost restless from the past couple of days, I still make it a point to not miss the adiNation Ortigas group last Wednesday. If you'll ask why, my answer would be consistent: Running Makes Me Happy. I have chosen running instead of watching Derby Ace Llamados' game against the Coca-Cola Tigers where they lost a disappointing 3-point deficit.

Back to running.

We met up at Mc Donald's at Pearl Drive and have our attendance with Coach Luis, plus picture taking too [of course].

My adiNation [Ortigas Group] Family

What I love about adiNation is the feeling of one big happy family. I am running side by side with a number of Bataan Death March Ultramarathoners but never felt belittled in anyway. I really feel that I BELONG! Yay! I'm a RUNNER!

First activity was a 1.2K warm-up that we normally have before the time trials. Alright, I hate time trials for it is making me feel like throwing up after finishing a lap. But knowing my time erases all of the uncomfortable feeling. Juvy asked me then to run with batch two. I am really on the fear of getting lost then. Ask me anything about Math, NOT Geography!!! But being used to the route allowed me to memorize where to turn right; and I finished my 1K in 5:07.32 in my watch and 5:13 with Coach Luis. More than the time, I am happy that I am not lost, LOL!

After the time trial [congratulations to Jeric by the way for his 4:11 1K], Coach Luis asked us if we wanted another round. Most of us answered 'NO'; we already want to have the long run. And so we go, RUN!

As I've said earlier, NO Geography; so I cannot really tell you our route. Hmmm, our first stop [I believe] is at Tiendesitas. Irene told us [Maan and I] that we had just covered a total of 3K. What?! I felt like already run 8K or something. Good thing we have to stop for a recovery of sort.

First Stop: Tiendesitas

Then off we go. We now have to traverse a steep hill going to St. Martin. Well, everyone who were on a climb knows how it feels to be on top. I survived! And we left our mark at St. Martin.

Conquering St. Martin

St. Martin is really not that much challenge for those who normally run at Buendia Flyover [10K and up distance frequenters]. But the next 'hill' that we're up to is a different story - we run at Canley!!!

Canley: Down

Canley: Up

Coach Luis is really proud of us for being able to survive Canley. He told us that most of his runningmates become hesitant for bringing us into such calvary; but he's sooo determined that we could finish it. And now, we had given him the bragging rights!

Then, we headed back from where we started. In total, we had ran approximately 11K. And that was a blast! I particularly want to thank Leo for accompanying me when I can no longer keep up with RunningAtom's pace. It's all because of side stitches!

After that lovely evening of 11K run, we all bid goodbye. But I never left without having a cup of McFlurry! Oooh, satisfying!

Hope I would be present next session; for most probably, I would need to rehabilitate with my addiction of running a 5K trail run at Merrell Adventure Run [ on Saturday] and 10K run at NatGeo EDR [on Sunday].

I sooo ♥ my adiNation Family!

Photo Credits: Coach Luis