Nuvali to Tagaytay LSD with Team SCR

Wow! Finally some time to blog! Not a surprise when I saw that my latest post was from April 20. The whole month of May passed by without me getting in Blogger! And now the most dreaded part of anyone who blogs - catching up with backlogs! I'll try my best to burn those backlogs today, so posts will be shorter, but still lots of photos. Hehe!

24th of March I joined Team SCR on their LSD from Nuvali to Tagaytay. They are celebrating their 2nd anniversary as a running group. These guys rock! I may not be a member of their team but they were warm and accommodating; such a friendly bunch of runners.

Me and Prof Syril resting in front of Rowena's Tagaytay

Overlooking Taal 

KM 60?!?! Hahahaha!

After the tiring 27km LSD it was time for the celebration. Food and drinks were overflowing! Each one introduced himself/herself by giving a word (using the first letter of the name) which best describes him/her. Since I was a new face to most people in the group, I chose "newbie" haha!

And now to the photos (which were courtesy of Ikasam's DSLR and Jeff's GoPro):

CHEERS! To more years running together, Team SCR!

Back to UP Diliman for an LSD

3AM and parked already at the Bahay ng Alumni

Last September 15, I and my running buddies Ryan, Rom and Marte went to UP Diliman for an LSD. It's probably the LSD which made us survive RUPM last Sunday.

It's been a long time since I've been to my alma mater; I think it was way back 2010 when I joined a race there. After three long years, surprisingly nothing much has changed. UP Diliman is still the same old campus worth spending one's college years on. I'll be forever proud to have been a UPD graduate!

Our LSD plan is a minimum 32km to a maximum of 35km. To the acad oval's 2.2km distance, that's about 14 to 16 loops. Insane right? But we're after distance and not speed. So we'd meet our target even how long it'd take. And what I stressed to my running mates is that this is more of mental training, as succeeding running in multiple loops would mean greater chance of success in a point-to-point race.

32km LSD Survivors, with Oble at the background

After a "taho" break, a return to the car for hydration, a "mais" break, and 15 loops around the acad oval, we survived! 32 kilometers in almost 5 hours! Hahaha!

Rodic's FTW!

And our biggest post-LSD reward? Nothing else but a big breakfast at Rodic's!

UP Diliman, we'll be back soon!