Hataw Pilipinas – Aug 9, 2009
Posted by eyestrain on August 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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argonautquest said
Hi Eric!
Sayang, mukha pa namang maganda ang ad nila, tapos ganito ung kinalabsan ng race…. anyway, next race na lang ulit…
_Argonaut
PARKERSHOT group said
kelan nyo po ba ipopost ang result???
at ung SINGLET my pag asa pa bang maibigay…