7-Eleven Run 800

 

On Sunday 20th January I got up at 4.45am to participate in my first 3 kilometre race along the seafront in Manila. It was a charity run organised by 7-Eleven to celebrate the opening of its 800th store in the Philippines.  

 

There was a huge turnout and I completed the course in around 17 minutes. Time will tell but this will hopefully be the first tiny step of the many that I will need to take in order to try to run a marathon before I'm 50.

 

 

Bantayan at New Year

The Philippine island of Bantayan is just one hour by ferry from the port of Hagnaya on Cebu. Yet it feels as if it's a million miles away from the chaos and intensity of Metro Manila.

The resort of Santa Fe on Bantayan was the perfect place to unwind for 6 days over New Year. 

A simple and uncommercialised Pinoy environment, it gave us the chance to sit back, relax and watch as the locals interacted peacefully and joyfully with each other without any of the modern day trappings of wealth.