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All In A Day Before Race Day - Ironman 70.3 Subic

March 5, 2016

Saturday

Travel through SCTEX, a billboard sign of IM70.3, a tunnel as we enter Subic Freeport

Arrived at the athlete center/finish line area, Subic Bay Exhibition Convention Center, M-dot

Registration, Race packet pick up, stage set up

Some of the booths inside the exhgibit area, tri tats marking, bike mechanic booth

Check in at hotel, lunch at Wendys

Transition 1, bike check in booths, bike check in photo taking

Inspect swim venue

Pros on the stage, race briefing, transition 2 bag drop off

Visit at a chapel inside SBMA, relax and walk by the seaside, dinner at Cabalens

Listen to a live performance, night walk by the seaside, one last shot at the bar before bedtime

I've been under the weather these past few days with cough, colds and fever that comes and goes. This is a horrible excuse to not workout, not that I don't like to rest but the timing is just too close to my next race - Aboitiz Tri 2015. The first two days were a pain in my back and sinus not to mention how cold it can get when the fever strikes. I skipped five consecutive meals because of this but now I'm beginning to eat normally. I've been drinking some herbal teas to speed up my recovery. Here are the three herbal teas I am currently cooking.

1. Salabat (ginger) - for my cough and colds

2. Sambong - for my temperature and kidney so I can drink medicine and flush it out completely

3. Sapang - a kind of wood that is told to be good at normalizing blood values.

As for the remaining days before the race I'm not too concerned about the planned workouts, my thoughts are in ridding myself of the phlegm that seems to choke me and the sore throat that prevents me from sleeping. I'd rather be breathing good than risk not joining the Saturday afternoon event. I was pretty much in good shape before somebody transmitted the virus to me and I'm confident I'll be on the starting line on September 12.

Good luck to all the participants of Aboitiz Tri. Let's enjoy the race and please be safe :)

I was visiting my classmate who's celebrating his 19th anniversary of priesthood when I suddenly fell ill

Body temperature was high upon waking up

A new playground for me - never even been here before ;)

Getting Sick

I've been sick for the past few days. Nothing gruesome, just a lot of coughing and a nose that runs like a waterfall. It started with my little boy, he passed the torch to his mom who in turn transmitted it to our daughter. I thought I wouldn't catch it even when all of them got sick, I was thinking I have a strong immune system in a time when I wasn't training. I was the last one to contract it and feeling desperately seeking for some magic cure. Here's what I have tried so far: ginger tea, clamansi juice, banana pineapple smoothie, malunggay soup, pineapple juice, grape juice and a cocktail of vitamins and decongestant.

The feeling is already improving - it better be coz I can smell a free race entry in the very near future (fingers crossed).

My own cocktail of you know what ;)

iPad Apps I Use Frequently

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I love my iPad and I always bring it with me. Here are some of the apps I use most of the time.

Numbers - for workout diary and viewing race results

Day One - diary app for iOS

Photogene - photo editing app with features I can actually use

Panorama Mode - camera mode I play with all the time

Google Earth - satellite view to familiarize with a race course among other things

Blogger - a bad blogging app that needs an overhaul

SwimBikeRun Speeds - to calculate speed, distance, pace, time

Maps With Me - off-line map, I get lost time and again

Drop Box - photos, videos, docs everywhere

iBooks - for viewing race results and registration forms

IMDB - your favorite movies and actors

Offline Reader - off-line browser for storing web articles I find invaluable

Off Tangent Tuesday - December Is A Non Training Month For Me :P

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After my last races were canceled and postponed I got disinterested with training. I still have a couple of races in the near future but I don't even like to hit the road and prepare for those events namely Challenge 70.3 Philippines Tough and IM 70.3 Subic. Nothing seems to motivate me right now and the weather here is really cooperating. It seems futile to expect a sunny day and the coldness of the day render swimming not even worth imagining. Maybe it'll turn around in January but for the moment let me enjoy December without the sweat and panting.