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Cebuana tops women’s Milo 21K in Tagbilaran, qualifies for national finals

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Cebuana Joeyry Lee of the University of Southern Philippines topped the women’s 21K of the National Milo Marathon Tagbilaran City leg this morning.

Lee blazed through the tough 21K route, which featured several uphill portions, in 1:36 to be the lone female qualifier to the Milo Marathon national finals in Manila on Dec. 12.

DIONESIO BELMONTE, JR. AND JOEYRY LEE. The top male and female finishers of the Milo Marathon 21K Tagbilaran City eliminations. The two have qualified for the national finals on Dec. 12. CLICK ON PHOTO TO ENLARGE. (CONTRIBUTED FOTO)

It was her first time to compete in the distance after consistently winning in shorter Milo races. She won the Milo 5K category at 8 years old and topped last year’s 10K race.

The 18-year-old Lee was groomed by her father to be a runner even when she was still two years old.

“I’ve always wanted to try the 21k but I was too young then, now that I am of age I proved to everyone that I can do it,” Lee told Milo in Tagalog.

Domination by Cebuanas

Cebuanas dominated the 21K category in Tagbilaran with Jane-Jane Ong placing 4th with her time of 1:59:01; Rachel Limtong at 6th, 2:01:31; Veronica Ong at 9th, 2:10:43, and Rowena Duarte at 10th, 2:20:55. They were the runners identified as Cebuanas by CebuRunning.com sources.

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Not a buffet ticket

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BREAKDOWN. In a moment of weakness, I succumb to temptation.

BREAKDOWN. In a moment of weakness, I succumb to temptation.

ULTRA-RUNNER Brod. Carlo Bacalla brought me to my senses. He expressed puzzlement when we met—of all places at a fastfood line—why I gained weight since the last time we saw each other despite my increasing mileage.

“Ikaw ra man ang akong nahibaw-an nga runner nga nanambok (you’re the only runner I know who has become fat),” he said as I quickly decided, on the very spot, against ordering a double cheeseburger with extra-large fries.

That honest appraisal gave me the impetus to face something that I had been putting off from confronting for a long time: a creeping weight gain caused by a sense of entitlement to gorge on food just because I regularly run.

It’s true that by exercising, you are entitled to eat a little bit more. But like many runners, however, I thought I was entitled to the equivalent of a daily buffet. It is, as Time described it in an article I did not want to read, “ravenous compensatory eating.”

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