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TxtID

Here's a one-of-a-kind product for road safety and emergencies. Not only for athletes, but also for senior citizens, people with special emergency needs, children, etc...

Similar to other emergency ID's but with the capability to store much, much more information.

Definitely Not a Kindergarten

I joined 50+ other ultrarunners in a run from Mandaue City to the Municipality of Catmon yesterday.  Total distance would be around 50km.

Thoughts of not being able to do the distance never entered my mind days before the race.  I even tapered on race week to reserve some energy and be fresh on the day of the race.

But I suffered through the latter part of the course.  I was completely drained mentally and physically.  All I wanted was for the race to end.

2 weeks to go

In less than 2 weeks, more than 200 runners will be running from Toledo City to Cebu City in the frontRunner Coast to Coast Ultramarathon 65km.  It is named as such because Toledo and Cebu are on opposite sides of the island of Cebu.  It traverses the whole of Transcentral Highway with killer uphills and downhills.

Race route through the mountains

Here's a list of what KAI Sandals WILL NOT do...

Ultramarathon Training Tips by Jonel Mendoza

Jonel Mendoza of FrontRunner Magazine shared these tips during the briefing of the 1st Cebu Ultramarathon held last November 27, 2010 and I’d like to post this here for my friends who will be running the frontRUNNER Coast to Coast Ultramarathon on May 1, 2011.

Training for an ultramarathon includes mental training, walk training, nutrition training, and B2B LSDs.  Jonel's tips really helped a lot.  This type of training is so much different to ones that are for half or full marathons.

Here's what he wrote:

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To endure, that is the essence of ultrarunning.

The Warrior Attitude.  The key to successful mental training is having the "warrior attitude".  A warrior goes to battle focused, with desire, motivation, discipline, belief, self-esteem, confidence, courage, and mental toughness to win in battle.  He prepares a wise and smart strategy, dwells on it, and executes it while staying calm and fending off pain and fatigue.  He prepares to fight the ultimate fight.  A warrior is willing to let his mind take his body to the ultimate test.  I am a warrior.  Are you?

Information on ITBS

Found this great article by Jason of strengthrunning.com on a very common (but very hard to heal) running-related injury - ITBS which stands for Iliotibial Band Syndrome.

Read the full article here

Anatomy of a 6 Month IT Band Injury – Post-Injury Analysis and Lessons Learned