Robinson's Supermarket Fit & Fun 5Km Wellness Buddy Run Report

It's Run Ma's turn to report while I'm in Boston....Johnny

Yesterday's, July 27, Fit and Fun run of Robinson’s Supermarket was a welcome treat after successive fun run fiascos for the past few weeks. It was well organized though it started late. Kudos to Extribe, the event organizer. Mood was very festive and non-competitive. The weather even cooperated as the sun hid while the run was ongoing. It was really a FUN run. Too bad I was just there to watch Dante, the only Run Ma’s alaga from the sidelines as still nursing my hip injury. The rest of the alagas could not make it, Rico fell off his bike (ouch!!!) and hurt himself the day before. Johnny is in Boston and Ed was off somewhere.

The idea of the Buddy Run is to start and finish the 5k with a Buddy. Dante’s buddy is one of Bayantrade’s new hire and as a warning, Dante told him “If you outrun me, you will not be made permanent at Bayantrade”. Dante and buddy therefore ran the whole race together and finished approximately 33minutes.

Dante (in white) and buddy finishing together!! How Sweet!! :-)

Lance Gokongwei finished at approximately 28 minutes. Good run! A lot of Robinson’s employees, first time runners, were there and obviously enjoyed the event. There were a lot of booths and taste test areas for the likes of Milo, Gatorade, Enervon prime, etc. I had fun going around the booths while waiting for Dante to finish so I can take pictures. The Enervon prime lady was tacky and said “Maam, try nyo Enervon Prime, magaling ito para sa matanda.” BIG MISTAKE!!!! I didn’t try it and drank the Milo instead. Robinson’s gave away magazines, grocery items, etc at the finish line. Big bag of goodies!!! Generous sponsors!

As usual, breakfast is something I look forward to. I joined the Bayantrade Milers (the official name of the running group of Dante) at Max’s at Market Market for breakfast. Dining at Max’s requires that you order fried chicken so we all had fried chicken for breakfast, haha!! But we added champorado instead of rice, yummy!! It was fun with all sorts of anecdotes about the run, ie, seeing a couple of gay runners holding hands while running for the entire 5k, buddies disappearing so they could not finish the race, etc.

By the way, Run Ma biked from Eastwood City to the Fort, approximately 11km one-way. Dante thought this was a crazy thing to do, but boy! that was a FUN ride!! Weather was so good it even drizzled so it was not warm at all. My face and legs were muddy though as the road had puddles all over from the rain the night before. Run Ma is now converted Bike Ma while off from the running circuit.

Til the next run! --- Run Ma Ting