“you’ve got to ask yourself one question:

…do you feel lucky? well, do ya, punk? ” -Dirty Harry,1971

well harry,i certainly am lucky to have friends who have wished me well in this time of r and r.

i woke up today at around 8 in the morning wondering what i was doing in bed so late.it was a sunday like other sundays past. but i was sure i was missing something here.then i remembered my friends doing the botak100.

this is the 1st sunday that i did not run a race nor do an lsd or a runabout for as long as i can remember.and it felt different.totally.

finding nothing worthy to do than to just leaf through the sunday papers and watch the never-ending coverage of the moonwalker,i decided to bring myself to the gym for a 3o-minute treadmill thing and a short weight-lifting workout.bad decision.i felt feverish as soon as i was done.i really do not know what’s going on.i just hope i will be strong enough to get up for the milo42 come sunday.

and before the clock struck 12 noon,i got the message that the first wave of finishers of the botak100 were done as early as 9am.isko,ralph and albert(run2dmoon) soon checked in after lunch and before 7pm came, my friends ronaldrei,ronnie(runnerforchrist),george(the talking machine),cesar and rico were done as well.coach salazar and ellen tolentino put in their licks too.good job guys-congratulations! you deserve a good feed/massage/sleep/happy ending for all the hard work you did today.that goes for the 50k finishers too!welcome to the ultra world.rejoice-you got yourselves devirginized!

anyway,here’s to all you guys who dropped me some good wishes on the net and some text messages too-thank you very much!

i feel lucky to have friends like you.may god bless you and your loved ones.and your-not-so-loved-ones.

what the heck.and your loved-once too.