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Cebu Executive Runners’ Club sends Mendel Lopez to Singapore

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Members of the Cebu Executive Runners Club (CERC) have pooled their resources to send top Cebuano runner Mendel Lopez to Singapore for the 73rd Singapore Open Track and Field Championships 2011 this weekend.

Lopez will leave for Singapore tomorrow, Thursday. He will compete in the 5K and 10K events in the hopes of qualifying for the Southeast Asian Games or SEA Games. Lopez said his best 5K is 15:15 and to qualify, he will have to run at least a 14:50. He said his best 10K is 33 minutes and to qualify he has to run at least 30:59.

OFF TO SINGAPORE. Mendel Lopez (3rd from right) is competing in Singapore over the weekend with the support of the Cebu Executive Runners Club. With Lopez during the press conference in Mooon Cafe are (from left) Dr. Raymund Bontol, CERC president Roy Trani, Jesse Taborada, Kenneth Casquejo and Michelle So. CLICK ON PHOTO TO ENLARGE

OFF TO SINGAPORE. Mendel Lopez (3rd from right) is competing in Singapore over the weekend with the support of the Cebu Executive Runners Club. With Lopez during the press conference in Mooon Cafe are (from left) Dr. Raymund Bontol, CERC president Roy Trani, Jesse Taborada, Kenneth Casquejo and Michelle So. CLICK ON PHOTO TO ENLARGE

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CERC supports Ayala Eco Dash: The Bottle School Run

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The Cebu Executive Runners Club (CERC) has taken up the cause to support the Bottle School Project by joining Ayala Center Cebu’s Eco Dash: The Bottle School Run. More than 30 members have pledged to run in the 10K and some of their family members will also run in the 5K.

“We at the CERC are very proud to pledge our full support for this environmental running event. In our own way, we would like to contribute and help,” CERC president Jesse Taborada said.

“The CERC will be donating at least 1,000 PET Bottles and more than 30 members will be running,” Taborada added.


CERC president Jesse Taborada (left) and Meyrick Jacalan of ASAP Cebu Advertising Services & Promotions with some of the plastic bottles they will be donating for the Bottle School Project.

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The not-so-lonely life of the long distance runner

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FROM cliché it has become passé, the loneliness of the long distance runner.

The mental image of the lone wolf trudging on while racking up miles by his or her lonesome is increasingly replaced by running packs of happy people on the road—hippies in running shorts singing “ah, look at all the lonely people.”

HAVE GROUP, WILL FLY. Running groups make the sport more fun. One of the best ways to make running a habit is to join a running group. On your own, it’s easy to turn off the alarm and postpone a run; it’s harder to do that with a group run. (PHOTO BY SYDNEY DELOS REYES)

HAVE GROUP, WILL FLY. Running groups make the sport more fun. One of the best ways to make running a habit is to join a running group. On your own, it’s easy to turn off the alarm and postpone a run; it’s harder to do that with a group run. (PHOTO BY SYDNEY DELOS REYES)

Runners are among the happiest people you’d know. I realized that mid-air Sunday—in the third of the Ungo Runners’ series of jump shots after the Pink October Run. Look at the photos on Facebook. The smiley in our Ungo shirts is redundant.

But apart from being fun, membership in a running group keeps you motivated and offers you much-need support as you train to run longer and faster. If you run alone—and especially if you’re still starting—it’s easy to turn off the alarm clock and postpone a run. It’s harder to do that with a group run.

To make running a habit, form your own group of runners or join existing running clubs in Cebu. The most prestigious running group in the province is the Cebu Executive Runners Club (CERC), which organizes the Cebu City Marathon. Jesse Taborada is CERC president and among its members are pillars of the sport in Cebu like John Pages, Dr. Vic Verallo and Meyrick Jacalan.

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Simon Losiaboi to run first 42K in Cebu City Marathon

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Cebu runners will see a familiar face wearing race bib no. 1 in this Sunday’s Cebu City Marathon—Kenyan missionary Simon Losiaboi.

Losiaboi, who has won all the races in Cebu that he joined since he arrived here late last year, will be running his first full marathon this Sunday. Being the only Cebu-based top Kenyan runner, organizer Meyrick Jacalan of the Cebu Executive Runners Club (CERC) said they will be assigning race bib no. 1 to Losiaboi.

CEBU CITY MARATHON organizers with Cebu’s top runners (from left): Perl Jacalan, Meyrick Jacalan, Mary Grace delos Santos, Simon Losiaboi, John Pages and CERC president Jesse Taborada. (PHOTOGRAPHED BY MARLEN LIMPAG)

Losiaboi told reporters gathered in Mooon Cafe in Ayala Center Cebu yesterday that he is “not really confident” with winning the race because he is not used to the distance. He said he has no target time to finish the race.

Losiaboi said he only trained for the distance in just one month—running on the roads in Cebu and the two Mandaue-Mactan bridges and doing speed work in the Cebu City Sports Center track oval.

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Cebu City to revive Tri-City Run, use timing chips

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The Cebu City Government will revive the Tri-City Run in next year’s celebration of the Cebu City Charter Day, Councilor Sylvan “Jack” Jakosalem told CebuRunning last night.

Jakosalem also said the run will use RFID chips to time runners. “I think timing chips are the way to go,” said Jakosalem, chairman of the Cebu City Council’s committee on games, amusements and professional sports.

He said they still have not decided what distances to hold races on but if the Cebu City Marathon on Jan. 10, 2010 is successful, Tri-City Run will have a full 42K route. The Tri-City Marathon got its name from the fact that its route passed the cities of Cebu, Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu. The route of previous stagings of the run covered 25K.

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