Usually the first race of the year, it can be used to measure your fitness level at that point in time and since it's the first race, you are garnered the best time record for the new year, as long as you finish the race within the cut off time.
Having Runrio be its organizer adds credit to the race in that you know you will be taken care of here in terms of marshals, sufficient water stations and other logistics with regards to the race.
As with the race of 2017, the route is the same, which is to say it is not easy. There are a lot of hills here from the start all the way to the finish line. From Kalayaan Bridge, which you have to do two times as the route makes a U Turn on Buendia Avenue, you proceed to the next hilly part which is the Lawton Avenue and Bayani Road segment of the race. To make this part even more difficult, you pass by the short but steep McKinley West. Second and final U Turn made on Bayani Road for another hilly climb back to Bonifacio Global City. And even here there were some inclines as well.
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| Hilly route |
So it's not really a fast race but our group was able to achieve all their goals here. Lots of PRs made and everyone finished their 21km with a big smile on their faces!
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| 21km runners before gun start |
The loot bag is pretty awesome this year. We even got a popcorn pillow from it. For a fee of Php 950 for a half marathon and having it in BGC is just a good and affordable race for me.
My goal for this race is try to go sub 2:30. That's it. More of how I feel during the race as did only one work out for the week which was an easy 6km the day before at they gym so I wasn't that confident joining this race. Hopefully on a worst case basis, I could still make it for the 3 hour race cut off time for the Half Marathon.
But God was there with me, and I happily crossed the finish time at a time of 2:23:00. Praise be to GOD!
One final race before I fly out to Hong Kong on Thursday for the Marathon (my third time to run this course). To God be all the glory!
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