Eat and Run

I am ready and excited for The Con­dura Run.

And as part of my prepa­ra­tion for the most antic­i­pated road race of the year, I attended takbo.ph’s Nutri­tion and Health Sem­i­nar, and Carbo Load­ing Party.

For two straight nights, I had healthy din­ner with fel­low run­ners. For the Nutri­tion and Health Sem­i­nar, it was a veg­e­tar­ian meal. I filled my plate with unpol­ished rice, bopis made from banana heart and curry made from oh-i-forgot. The soy milk was good. But I don’t like the fruit blends that were pre­pared. It tasted ahhh-errr-asdfghjk-i-don’t-know.

And last night, it was the Carbo Load­ing Party. As I arrive at the venue, I imme­di­ately saw Quee­nie at the reg­is­tra­tion area. She’ll soon be mar­ried to Jinoe, the takbo.ph admin­is­tra­tor. Congrats!

After get­ting the loot bags I hur­ried myself to the line-up-for-your-food-here area. The Kenny Rogers Healthy Plate Meal, spaghetti with meat balls + 1/4 roasted chicken + salad, made my stom­ach happy again.

Some notes dur­ing the event:

• They had a game based on the forum’s thread: runner’s pick-up lines. I actu­ally posted my share in the forum but there’s no way I’ll say it in front of many peo­ple. I’m a bit shy, you know.
• My shy­ness made me sit. One of the games they pre­pared was the I’ve-never-done-this-and-that where if you actu­ally did this-and-that you take a sit and the per­son who remains stand­ing wins. The emcee said to us:
  

  I’ve never pre­vented shy­ness get in my way in post­ing a com­ment in an inter­est­ing blog post or forum thread…

  – or some­thing like it.

  And as I seated, sheer­will asked me, what and whose blog for exam­ple made me feel that way. So I said, I find your blog inter­est­ing and I felt shy because I think a new­bie like me blah-blah-blah… Haha! I think what I said was nonsense.

• Seri­ously, I think all those runner-bloggers are friendly and pas­sion­ate indi­vid­u­als. They so love the sport that they share their sto­ries and give inspi­ra­tion to oth­ers, begin­ners and expe­ri­enced run­ners alike.
• Next time, I shouldn’t be sit­ting near the emcees.

Come Sun­day!
See you on the SkyWay!