the case of runner flordeliza donos,22.

just when i thought that i have read all that everybody had to say about their sad sim experiences, here comes a horror tale that takes the cake.

rosario “che” alberto, she of baguio’s cool city running club, sought my help to bring to everyone’s attention and most importantly to whoever is stalling on things,the plight of one of her top lady runners.

flordeliza donos,22,  is a working and self-supporting student from the university of baguio. she is no pushover for a runner.she won the recent milo, qcim and sim 10k races.she is  an elite runner as you can see.

she had no problems finishing and getting her prizes for milo and qcim.

it is at sim(again!) that shit took place.

you see, during the sim awarding ceremonies, some smart ass either wrongly gave to someone else or  misplaced her winner’s trophy.she was promised that the trophy would be sent to her in baguio.that  was 11 days ago.no problem with the case of the missing trophy.the reality is that she can’t buy anything with the trophy.she can wait for that,she said.

little did she know that her misfortunes were just starting.

she was then awarded a personal check under ucpb check number 57665 dated october 25,2009 in the amount of ten thousand pesos(10,000.00).this represented her prize for topping the sim 10k women’s leg.that was what she came for and what she needed the most being the self-supporting student that she is.

she went back to baguio with high hopes of encashing her take at baguio’s local ucpb branch. tuesday,october 27,she went but to her horror the check was not honored for lack of funds.she then sought her coach’s and  che’s advice.they went chris sports store(their registration center) in sm baguio to asked for a number they could call.they got it.the number given was 0928 600 9930.they called and sent a text message on october 28 and was assured that the check was funded.here was their exact text message sent to che on october 28 at 3:10 pm; “ALL CHECKS WERE FUNDED YESTERDAY AS REPORTED DIDNT RECEIVE FROM BANK TODAY.KINDLY CHECK TOMORROW MORNING.RE TROPHY,WE WILL JUST HAVE ANOTHER 1 MADE SEND IT TO HER.KINDLY FURNISH US MAILING.” but no luck at the bank when they went back,unfunded still.

november 3, the baguio people called the same number again.this time, the one who answered said this was the wrong number!but when che and company sent a text message, the one on the other end said and assured that the said check was funded.so they went to the bank but still,the check was unfunded!

flordeliza donos is at a lost.all she wants is her fair share for which she worked very hard for.she spent money and time to get to subic and back to baguio.she wants to run the pim 10k come sunday.but she has been given more zigzag-like answers than kennon road has.but this,this sim check is getting stale and stinking for 10 days now.

which makes me wonder,how are the kenyan winners with their own collections?

all flordeliza donos did was run the race and now wants to get her take for an honest day’s work.

flordeliza donos has cleft palate making it difficult for her to express herself verbally to the sim people and that makes it necessary for her to ask her coach, che and myself to take up the cudgels for her.

is this is what is supposed to be an international caliber foot race? heaven forbid.

what has flordeliza donos done to deserve this?