This is how I run my fun.

Just like summer flings, this event blossomed during summer. I guess "I'm gonna go on diet this summer!!!1!!" is almost everyone's cliche line. Well, except for me. I was not really bothered with my weight. Yes, my body is not the type you would upload on Twitter with a caption, "#thinspiration", but I'm quite comfortable with it still. But my kuyas and ates--future sisters-in-law hihi--love to go on a run. They jog at the Marikina Sports Center at least once a week. Instead of spending my vacation being a prisoner in the house, I joined them for a walk (lol) sometimes. Indeed, just a brand new way to kill time.

Until, the universe conspired to make me changed my mind. (sounds like a song lyrics to me lol)

One hot afternoon during the school vacation, I went to school to gear up my unsettled school requirements and believe me, just a few steps passing from the entrance gate, I got three compliments from my friends saying, "hey, you went slim!" So I, together with my kuyas and ates, took this jogging routine into a next level. We became interested in joining fun runs.

Slimmerun 2013 (May 19, 2013, Bonifacio Global City, 5k)

The first fun run that I joined was Slimworld. Being a first timer, I ran the 5k route. I don't really remember enjoying this run because I only got three hours of sleep and my eyes were so puffy because from crying. But I did not back out so I still go for another event and that was.... 

World Vision Run 2013 (June 23, 2013, Bonifacio Global City, 5k)

This time, My mental, emotional and physical state were in the right condition to feel the fun in the fun run. As I remember, I did a 5k run here too.


Rexona 2013 Run To Your Beat (October 20, 2013, Mall of Asia Pasay City, 21k)

My first fun run after being in months-long hiatus of this activity. I was a 21k finisher of this fun run. This was my first 21k run and it was probably the distressing state of my heart.. I mean, life, that motivated me to get to the finish line. I loved this run! There were a lot of photographers and water/gatorade stations and cool upbeat music that will make you feel like you're in some kind of an inspiring music video. Hahaha.

Plot twist: I was never an official participant of this run. (Hahaha!) But I swear, I really did a 21k run. I blame my kuya's workaholic lifestyle that he was not able to register me on this run. But I really wanted to so I still tagged along with them. Few kilometers before reaching the finish line, Kuya Chan made me wear his bib number and with that, I was able to get the 21k medal. But God knows I did not force him to do that. In fact, I was hesitant cause they might call me out cause I'm not even wearing the Rexona singlet. But calories have been burned, it already happened so let's move on.


NYR Run 2013 (November 24, 2013, University of the Philippines Los Banos, Laguna, 21k)

(No pictures on the event huhuhu)

This was the hardest fun run I've ever participated to. Unlike the usual venue, Bonifacio Global City and Mall of Asia, the running route of this run was UP Los Banos. It was my first time being there--I mean, actually being  there. The first time I went there was an educational tour during my Arellano college days and we were just there to be informed about the famous fresh carabao milk and this is one of the main reasons why I'm itching to go to this fun run event because my system needs some refreshing carabao milk and I wanted to hoard some. Hahaha oops TIM.

I never expected that the route would be a zigzag roller coaster. Just like life, it has a lot of ups and downs (lmao). And to make the matters worse, in the middle of the struggle, I got muscle cramps on my left knee. At first, it was not really a bad injury, I can still feel the fun in the fun run. But the more I move, the more the pain went less tolerable . I went to the passing medics van to be assisted. After that, I was back on the track. I still tried to run with all my might but my knee didn't seem to cooperate with me. In fact, it got even worse than it already was. Until I realized that (this is a shame but whatever) I was the last runner on the 21k route. The marshall assisted me to get to the finish line. Stating the obvious, I never finished it :(


Nike We Run Manila 2013 (December 1, 2013, Marikina Sports Center Marikina City, 10k)

My favorite run event so far because of some few things: One, the package includes getting our singlet customized! My name, Lindsay, was punched at the back of it. Just like a jersey shirt-type. Two, the venue was accessible to my place. Three, this was only a 10k run! My comfort running zone. Hahaha. Four, the finishers shirt! I like my v-neck white shirt a lot. The downside of this run though was the route. We were literally passing the narrow streets of "barangays" and it was quite annoying cause there were over 15,000 runners there. Just imagine making your way through this crowd. But all in all, it was fun. By the way, one of the 15,0000 people there was Kean Cipriano who was lucky enough to stand beside me (hahaha!) before the start of the run.

Until now, I still see to it that I join running events whenever time allows me too. Trust me, you don't have to be a diet freak to enjoy this activity because as long as you're with the people you're comfortable exposing your exhausted and sweaty self with, smiles and laughters are surely guaranteed at the end of the finish line.

7-Eleven is having a fun run this January 2014. This would be a good way to start the year. But as of now, since holiday is  fast approaching, my fun run freak self is about to meet it halfway and make a compromise. Hahaha. Calories, I'm gonna burn you guise so soon. Haha. Advance Happy Holidays everyone! :)

Say what you wanna say and let your words fall out.

Hi, Blogspot. Do I look familiar to you? Yes, I'm Lindsay, the active blogger of 2009-2010. I guess, the saying, "There's no place like home." is true enough.

This is the nth time I created a blog. I've been to Wordpress, Blogspot, Tumblr--I created four blogs here for Pete's sake--and even went to Posterous.

I didn't create these blogging sites just for the superficial reason that people will have the impression that I'm geeky/cool/techie because I know a lot of sites like this, but merely because, I feel like some of the things I would have to say won't fit to the kind of personality that each blog portrays. Let's say, I have this first blog that is crystal clear in the eye of the public--including schoolmates, friends and if they are Detective Conan-like, even relatives. Then I have this second blog that is safe enough to pour out my innermost feelings where I can cry over something, swear someone, and go on an angsty mood, because my followers don't even know me in real life--purely strangers. There are no worries like, "what if I bumped into this follower in our school hallway and he/she will think that, 'haha this girl is so full of dramas. I read it in her 3am post that she got dumped and blablablabla...'?". I'm afraid that if I do the my-heart-speaks kind of posts on my public blog, people would mocked me for being so melodramatic, naive, hopeless romantic, bitch and stupid. Then the other blog is for my beyond crazy side. The out-of-this-world kind of crazy. It is where I reblog funny posts such as a picture of a Caucasian wearing a horse mask. Haha. You might even rolled your eyes after reading that sentence.

The truth is, I'm always afraid of what people might say about me. I always care about what they think of me. Isn't it ironic that I'm taking up Journalism--something a person would go for because they are brave enough to express themselves--yet I move a few steps back, mask an image that I know would please the people around me because if I unravel my transparent self, I'd be judged, critized and laughed at? I find it funny yet pitiful how in school essays, my pen smoothly glides in writing the phrase, "A journalist should not be afraid to express their opinions and thoughts" shit but here I am, failed to apply it in my life. Yes, I run a blog. I own a blog. And technically speaking, I'm the only one who can access to it. But the question is, am I being able to live the essence of having a blog? No.

It took me into a long train of thought to finally say this, "be yourself". Cliche as it may sound, but it's true. I should not put myself, my identity, at stake just because I'm afraid of rejections. I don't want the rueful time to come where I no longer know myself because I patterned my life according to the approval of the people around me. And maybe, I'm just too damn paranoid. I didn't quite realize that if people are smart enough, they would be busy dealing with the twists and turns of their own lives. And those kind of people who say a lot about a person as if they know that someone well? Well, it only shows how shallow they are. And as a smart person, shrugging their nonsense off should be your response. Remember, IT IS YOUR LIFE.

This will be my last main blog. I will post here my experiences--good or bad--in living and loving. This will be viewed by everyone. I don't care anymore if they think I'm melodramatic. I don't care anymore if they think I'm naive. I don't care anymore if they think I'm hopeless romantic. I don't care anymore if they think I'm a bitch. I don't care anymore if they think I'm stupid. The truth is, I probably am composed of those qualities. But I'm not letting their cloudy judgments hold me back from expressing myself.

Say what you wanna say and let your words fall out. What you wanna say. I wanna see you be brave.

Be brave, Lindsay. Be brave.