From left: John Pages, Meyrick and Perl Jacalan, Jon Consunji, Dr. Renald Ramiro, Joel Juarez,  Joey Santos, Precing Capampangan, Serge Amora, Jesse Taborada and (kneeling down) Raffy Uytiepo

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Dr. Renald Ramiro with the winner of the “Best in Costume” award At six in the morning today (Jan. 19), Vice Mayor Michael Rama fired the starting gun as hundreds of participants pounded the cemented roads of the Asiatown I.T. Park. In the end, after the 5-K and 21-K runners had finished, it was a [...]

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Seated (from left): Raffy Uytiepo, Joey Santos, Bobby Inoferio, Jess Taborada, John Pages and Joe Deresas; (standing) Mendel Lopez, Liezl Geteruelas, Raffy Osumo Last Thursday (Jan. 17) at 12 noon, I attended the final Press-Conference for the Mizuno-Shell Sinulog Marathon at the Olympic Ballroom of Baseline Restaurant. Presided by arguably the wittiest and funniest man [...]

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If you own a pair of running shoes, can lift one leg in front of the other and move from Point A to Z; if you love to sweat and know that while your heart is pumping 155 beats per 60 seconds then you’re getting healthier; and, best of all, if you want to join [...]

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Registration is on-going at five locations: the Cebu City Sports Center (near the entrance gate), Mizuno Shop (SM City-Cebu), the Holiday Gym & Spa in Banilad, Sug-Angan Restaurant (along J. Llorente St.), and the Mint Sports Shop at the BTC. Fees? They’re reasonable: For students, only P95; for the 5-K runners, P150; and for the [...]

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Maria Yuryevna Sharapova was born poor. In 1986, her parents fled their Russian hometown when the Chernobyl nuclear disaster struck. When she and her father, Yuri, flew to America in March of 1996, they brought with them only $700—borrowed from Maria’s grandparents. Worse, both Sharapovas spoke no English. In their own version of “In Pursuit [...]

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Here are three (3) photos of Ms. Sharapova from the Swimsuit Edition of Sports Illustrated (2006). Pictures taken by Walter Iooss Jr. The full website (and all the 22 photos) can be accessed here.

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For the past 21 years, I’ve followed the sport. I remember—long before cable TV was plugged to our homes—trooping to The Boulevard and Cafe Valeriano along Osmeña Blvd. to watch (beamed “live” via a huge satellite dish) Boris Becker diving for volleys to collect his three Wimbledon trophies. In the late 1980s, I recall seeing [...]

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Last Wednesday (Jan. 9), the Cebu Executive Runners Club organized a press-conference for the upcoming Mizuno-Shell Sinulog Half-Marathon slated on Jan. 19. Here’s the article (found below) written by Norvi Misa of Sun.Star Cebu yesterday (Jan. 10) and below are some photos.

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  I never used to drink one of the world’s most popular drinks. Every time I step inside Bo’s Coffee or walk beside a Coffee Dream kiosk—with no offense meant to Steve Benitez and Glenn Soco, my good friends who own our two most popular and home-grown coffee shops—I stare at the menu, pause for [...]

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The biggest day of the biggest week of the biggest time of the year is near. On Jan. 20—next Sunday—Cebu will be swarmed with Sto. Niño devotees, foreigners, San Miguel beer, fireworks, Y101 helicopter rides, street-dancing, SM and Ayala midnight-shopping, face painting and, yes, running. Running? Yes, no misprint there; amidst all the revelry arrives [...]

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Last Friday (Jan. 4) at the Casino Espanol, the group of men and women who love the sport of running held their annual party and Induction Ceremony. The Cebu Executive Runners Club boasts of several members who’ve finished the full 42-K Marathon. Here are the pictures sent to me by one of the group’s pioneers, [...]

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Once every week or two, my wife and I sit on La-Z-Boy chairs, recline the seats, perch our legs on stools, close our eyes for 60 minutes and quiet our bodies as therapists stroke our toes. Don’t you love a good massage? I do. After our weekly dinner-date, Jasmin and I visit a spa—a habit [...]

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Last Sunday, we ran. Starting at 5:30 a.m., we jogged a few circles inside Cempark then headed for the Asiatown I.T. Park where, at that early hour, dozens stretched, trotted and biked. Next, we scooted along Juan Luna Ave. then entered the Cebu Business Park and weaved ourselves around the Ayala Center and Marriot Hotel. [...]

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