Showing posts with label running. Show all posts
Showing posts with label running. Show all posts

Friday, September 23, 2016

RUNNING, PHOTOGRAPHY, BLOGGING & VLOGGING help me DEVELOP a LOVE for my LIFE.


Over the course of my life as I grew up and matured (lols), I’ve contained a number of run-of-the-mill interests like ball games, video games, art, just to name a few. But none of them have changed or defined my life or brought me as much satisfaction as blogging/vlogging, running and photography. In almost too many ways to count, these 3 passions have changed me and the way I live my life aside from my work.
Any of these 3 has become a passion that I can put in good word to others. I started blogging as a personal tool to journal some parts of my life and express what’s in my mind and my emotions that I cannot voice out directly to other people. Before I started vlogging, running and photography are my stress relievers. Running makes me feel healthy and gives me mental fortitude while photography becomes a creative outlet for me to see the beauty in every captured memory that I can have forever.  But somewhere along the line, it becomes less about me writing the story in blog when I discovered vlogging in which I can tell a story in video format. I begin to love it because I’ve always loved to share things, and making videos has become an extension for my love of writings.
 And while there are many articles written about these hobbies, for me,  if you combine running, writing blog, filming vlogs and photography or even doing only one of this passions, it’ll surely DEVELOP A LOVE FOR your LIFE with its all beauty, good health, joy, love, connection, adventures, thoughts, emotions, and awesomeness that makes up life. So, let’s wrap it up here, how could you not try even one or two or all of these and experience it now?? And maybe can change your life and become you happier.
But, anyway, if you’re any of these: blogger, vlogger, runner, photographer or not, hopefully you can relate to at least a little of it.
WATCH SOME OF MY VLOGS:


 
   
 
      


Wednesday, September 2, 2015

This thoughts.... Milo Marathon

We understand cut-off’s of 2:30 requirements to be a proud Finisher for Milo Half-Marathon. We get it of course and it sends message to us to train and push harder for our goals. But if you finish the distance then you completed the distance. I would and will never take away from someone’s accomplishments due to how long it took them to finish. Different things happen along the way. If you go out and run 21k in a race last Sunday but miss the cut off, I do not things that means that you did not just run a half mary. I would consider that you are a Milo Marathon Finisher. You finish 21k and while you do not have an official time for your effort – you are still very much a part of the Milo Marathon history. While other people spend so much time cutting each other down while some runners miss the cut off times, please don't make them down rather motivate them. I just remind you that you did something that very few ever will do. Put your body through 21k and keep on going to beat that damn cut off time, and finish the JOURNEY.

Some Icloud Running Group family celebrating after Milo Marathon.
The reasons we do this sport are as personal as our goals for given races.  A sub 2 hour half marathon or sub 2:30 21k is a huge achievement for some and a -poor-WTF-happened race failure for others. If people are doing this for a title…. a new PR or to be a Qualifier….then they are doing it for a different reason that we are. We can certainly applaud each other's accomplishments in the sport and encourage each other, but let’s "thrive" on setting and achieving our own goals. Just keep running and think about why you started.

Sunday, September 14, 2014

Running in the Rain with my Amazing ICloud Running Group Family


Twila, Doc Cindy & Dianne infront of Lucban Municipal Plaza
This morning, we ran 25K what we so called a 2 dozen kilometers under the rain in a bad weather due to typhoon Luis. I just woke up early to run this LSD with my amazing running family Jeric, Boyet, Doc Cindy, Twila, Dianne, Michael, Red, Andrew and Papong. Some of our group family members didn't come for some reasons, hope you guys will join us next time. Anyway, Lucena City to Lucban, Quezon is a pretty hilly route from start to finish particularly Tayabas to Lucban. We ran a little bit slower than usual under the rain and windy morning. It’s so beautiful seeing again the majestic Mt. Banahaw in a foggy morning that it’s hard to complain at all and that was pretty special.
Boys infront of Lucban Municipal Plaza

Ako lang naman :)
Our group didn't usually catch inside in a rain storm in so long. And you know what? It felt so damn good. When we realized we’re about to get absolutely soaked as the rain got harder, we smiled. We enjoyed every single second. We ran slower than normal. We could feel our shoes and socks squishing around but we didn’t care jumping some wet patch, ponds then play and just laugh and keep running. Every now and then you have to go out into the rain to run, even when it’s cold and the road is wet. Running in the rain sometimes will make your skin chafes and blisters and it’s so awkward to other people see you running while raining. But it still gives you more something to learn. It retells us the happiness of the best moments in running, like when we were a child, we keep running in spite of the bad weather, and mostly the weather makes it better. That's how we felt.
 
Group photo @ 7-11 Tayabas City
What we wanted to express is the happiness that running brings us. And we hope by sharing this we can inspire other people to run, feel the happiness, show gratefulness, live a happier, healthier and have a better life. 

photo credit: Twila Starr + Red