Why am I suddenly starting a blog?
Simple, as the number of races I’ve joined increases, I’m finding it more and more difficult to remember the races and my time for each. Lately, to go around this problem, I decided to just remember my Personal Best and where I did it. But this also proved too complicated for this aging mind. See, that meant I needed to remember my PB for each distance and for which race I ran that particular distance. For example, I have run a number of 10K races and I know that my best time was 51:30 in the Sun Fun run in Ayala Alabang. Easy, right? But I also have to remember that according to those who know better, the actual distance of that run was about 500m short of 10K. So then, my best time was 53:40 in the Takbo Para sa Kalikasan but since DZMM did not release an official time, that time was my PB-unofficial. Now I can’t remember which becomes my official 10K PB. I rest my case (and my brain as it has just started shutting down on account of my head spinning from overwork).
So I decided to just write them all down and put the list in my wallet. Problem solved? Not quite. My wallet is already thick with wads of paper where I wrote down all the other things that I need to remember (my home address for example). If I add one more sheet of paper to the stack, I might have to buy a new wallet or throw away one or two of my lists (my birthday and my age as of the last one would be prime candidates). So what to do?
Write a blog! Considering my utter lack of time (and more importantly, writing skills) to sit down and actually do it, writing a blog is the farthest from mind. I did write a personal journal about my crush (who is now my wife, believe it or not) when I was in grade school but I don’t think that counts. It may be up for nomination to the National Museum archives if I’m able to find it, though. Hmmm… there might be some money in that. I will stop writing this blog while I call my mother. Maybe she can find it in that old cabinet where she keeps the death certificates of my ancestors. I promise, and as this blog may be read by the whole world you are all witnesses, that I will give her 2% of whatever amount the National Museum will give me for my personal journal. Hey, 2% of a million is 20 thousand. My mother will be very happy (she doesn’t have to know the other 980,000! And I trust you all not to tell her!)
I was gone for five minutes and my mother, in her eternal wisdom told me that she couldn’t find it. Also, that my journal is not that important to be in the cabinet with the death certificates of my ancestors. Darn!
So I have no choice. This blog is the only answer. Well, if you have other suggestions please tell me so I can stop this nonsense and have my race records where I can remember them. If you give me the right idea, you can also be free of the torture of reading this blog.
But while I’m waiting for the perfect suggestion, I’ll just put my race times here. I’ll just try and put in updates every time I race. On top of that, maybe I’ll get inspired and write again every few years.
the serious runner 