It’s the 7th week of night runs for the ungo runners—a motley group that meets every Friday night to run from the Sun.Star Cebu office to the IT Park.

As I said in my column last week on the ungo runners, we call ourselves ungo after that Bisaya word and its double meaning—the noun for that creature of superstition that comes out in the dark and the adjective to mean addict. We are running addicts who run at night.

WE OWN THE NIGHT. Ungo runners prepare to run to the IT Park from the Sun.Star Cebu office.

Since this week is Holy Week and Holy Thursday and Good Friday are two of the five days in the year when there is no work in the Sun.Star Cebu newsroom, we decided to hold the run on a Wednesday. It will also allow ungo runners to go to their Holy Week break refreshed (we get sick if we don’t run)—not that devotion will stop us from running on Good Friday.

For this Wednesday night run, ungo runners will run from Sun.Star Cebu to the Banilad Town Center, where we’ll have coffee and eat our midnight meal. This is a special run for the ungo because two of our runners have just been recently named as editors-in-chief of the two top newspapers in Cebu—Isolde Amante, the new Sun.Star Cebu editor-in-chief, and Michelle So, the new Sun.Star Superbalita editor-in-chief.

The development means three of Cebu’s five editors-in-chief are runners—Cebu Daily News‘ Connie Fernandez also runs—and two of them are ungos.

For this Wednesday night run, I’m considering two routes. The first one will pass Osmena Blvd., Fuente Osmena, Gen. Maxilom Ave., Ayala Business Park then to Juan Luna Ave. then to Banilad. This is the longer route, about 7 kilometers.

Here’s an interactive map of the route:

View Wednesday Night Ungo Run Route 1 in a larger map

The second one will pass the New Imus Road then to the Ayala access road then to the Cebu Business Park, Juan Luna Ave. then to Banilad. This route is about 6.5 kilometers.

Here’s an interactive map of the route:

View Wednesday Night Ungo Run Route 2 in a larger map

In either route, we’ll have a water stop in the Petron gas station and convenience store on Juan Luna Ave. This will allow runners to refuel while waiting for fellow ungo runners who choose to enjoy the night scenery and take their time.

We are also accepting volunteers to be marshals in the night run. Joe France Canizares and Cadjing Pelicano typically take care of the lead pack, Kenneth Casquejo serves as sweeper while I’ll be a running marshal going from one pack to the next.

Which route should we take? Leave comments below.