Growing popularity of running, duathlon, triathlon

Wheels of Happiness

This post often see events:  running, duathlon, triathlon.   And those practicing along roads and hills.

I could not join the running craze again because of all ready damaged knee tendon   Started running in 1985, after my father died, since his EENT said that the only way to overcome cancer and live long is by exercising.  He ran the Boston Marathon and he graduated from Harvard.  And posted in his clinic is not his Harvard Diploma but him finishing the Boston Marathon..   And so I started running:  joining 5k, 10 k, 21 k and 42 k   I experienced  training of run of 30 km or more.  Did not join ultramarathon though.

Then moved to trekking, 4x4, and lately biking.    I stayed long in biking because of good company and great destinations.   

The runners/cyclists shall not be cowed by the Boston Marathon explosions

Real Cyclists

Angono, Rizal Philippines  |  April 16, 2013

Latest video form Al Jazeera on Boston bombing

I saw from Al Jazeera the interview about the reaction of runners to the Boston Marathon explosion.  The London Marathon, one of the twin marathons of Boston Marathon shall be held as scheduled.  The runners shall not be intimidated.  That is the spirit of runners.  No fear.

I earlier posted a poem for navy seals   Act of Valor asking whether biking is an act of valor.
Shall we be prevented by this act of terrorism vs athletes?

I think not.  Should we?  I have crashed several times (one even seriously) and my wife and children have talked me out of cycling.  I persisted.  Because when you got to go you got to go.  And when it is not yet your time,..... 

Multiple explosion rock Boston Marathon finish

Real Cyclists

From Newsmax  by Bill Hoffman 4:48 April 15, 2013

Twin explosions rocked the finish line of Boston Marathon leaving 3 dead and about a hundred wounded.  This is a sad day for sports lover.  Now many will be afraid of joining marathons.

Let this form of insane terrorism come to our country and sow fear into the hearts of bikers and athletes and people who want to stay healthy

From Christian Monitor on Boston Bombing + video

Do You Want to Experience Running the Boston Marathon? Just Watch this Video

Bike and Save the Earth

Most of us bikers would not have the opportunity nor the fitness to run the Boston Marathon, a must for every marathoners.  But of course we can ride thrice or 4x that distance on a bike.

VM and I used to do marathons. We were officers of ARC Angono Running Club together with late Cayong Picones (he was kidnapped and murdered as per stories. It is a tough ordeal, a mind over matter ordeal.

Running NY or Boston Marathon is every marathoner's dream, if only given an opportunity. I know of only one Filipino who has a picture of himself finishing the Boston Marathon: Dr. Jaurencio Jarin of Medical City. He is an ENT who treated my father for throat cancer. He studied in Boston (that is why he ran the marathon.)

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