Bisdak Sole: October 2014

September 21, 2014

One of those rare moments - seeing my name in the sports section of the local newspaper. Not that I'm used to seeing my name in some other sections... certainly not in the headline! You know, where the biggest bad news of the week is often written. But I was lucky to share the page with another Milan, that guy who can knock a cow senseless with one punch. I'm exaggerating but you know who he is so I wont elaborate. I don't know where they got the finish time, but let me correct that coz 18 hours is just way too long for a marathon. I finished in 13:41:25.

That photo pretty much sums up the whole ordeal. We curled up like steamed shrimps the whole time trying to work our way up steep hills like those! I remember one guy saying "kung sinaw pa ang trail, makapanamin man sad ta!" I swear I thought I was done at 15K... cramps, seemingly endless climbs... And they told me it was a freakin' marathon! It was more like an adventure race plus a series of vertical kilometer races...

Not to mention the many times I got lost! Yes, this is a fat ass event - no frills, no marshals, no aide stations, no directional signs either. That photo is the GPS track of the panic attack I went through when I inadvertently took an early left turn. It took me about half an hour to finally spot the correct trail!