Hataw Pilipinas – Aug 9, 2009

Race : Hataw Pilipinas
Venue : UP Diliman
When : Aug 9, 2k9 , Assembly 5:30AM , Gunstart : 6AM
Events : 3k / 5k / 10k

• I wasnt really planning on joining any race this weekend but after reading in takbo.ph forums late saturday night I found out that theres gonna be a race tomorrow morning at Marikina and UP.  So I figured what the heck I might as well join since Sunday is my normal long run training day.

• Woke up at 4:50 AM , w/c seems to be too late already to join the Marikina race so I just chose to join the UP race and did some mild jogging along the way as a warmup, made it just in time for the late registration.

• Not too many race participants, I would say around 500 people more or less.  Pero nung bigayan na ng freebies parang dumami bigla tao.

• Race route was very redundant, only the first 1km was different, the remaining 9k was all about running around the UP oval till you reach 10k.

• Theres water aid station at every 2k.

• For some reason I think my pacing in the race wasnt better than my last 10k run.  At the 8k mark I started taking too many walk breaks w/c greatly messed up my momentum.

• Finished the 10k mark at 1hr 9min based on my own timer while I crossed the official Finish line at 1hr 11min 56 sec.  The whole route had a total of 10.44KM based on my Garmin.

• When I crossed the finish line I was disappointed because I  really didnt notice anyone at all keeping track of the official timing of the finishers.  So I guess I really wont be expecting any official race results from this event.

• Even if the race wasnt well organized there were a lot of freebies from the event sponsors, the free race singlet also had a nice design.

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