kilometer 172: IE8 Run

Thirty nine min­utes have gone by as I started my IE8 Run.
I was so two-thousand-and-late.

Hard-headed run­ner

Since I was late, one of the orga­niz­ers in the cor­ral told me not to run any­more, since 30++ min­utes have gone by already, even if my bib was marked by a blue slash, a sign that I checked in. He was say­ing like, I am his respon­si­bil­ity, that I might be in dan­ger and that I might cause traf­fic along Buen­dia on a later time.

Tsk­tsk. I shouldn’t have ask per­mis­sion to him. Any­way, other ladies in the cor­ral, includ­ing the emcee, I see her in Studio23, were say­ing that I should start run­ning and catch up. They didn’t say though, that I should sneak out past the strict eyes of the old man.

The hard-headed me sneaked out and started run­ning anyway.

Along 11th avenue, I saw Eduardo Bue­nav­ista on his way back with mobile cars guard­ing him.

Run­ning along the Kalayaan bridge, was a bit awk­ward. Peo­ple are star­ing at me like what-in-the-world?! Although, I exchanged nods and high-fives with famil­iar faces. I even saw my office mates. Finally they fin­ished on a faster time than me, officially.

I caught up with some of the run­ners along Buendia-Ayala. But to my sur­prise, instead of turn­ing back just along the fire sta­tion, the loop extended near the rail­ways. And this time, I caught up with the last per­son run­ning on his way back. The per­son in the mobile car accom­pa­ny­ing the lone run­ner was telling me to go back and con­sider the some-200 meters as a give away pun­ish­ment. I obeyed this time, and regret­ted not run­ning the remain­ing 200 meters and wak­ing up late.

I arrived at the fin­ish line with the clock tick­ing at 1:50:++.

Lessons learned.
I should sleep early to wake up early.

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