So the Filinvest Run (not the actual name, I forgot the original) yesterday was pretty damn intense. The fun run for a cause in Alabang was not really the biggest race during that 25th of April, as there are four other races in the Philippines that share their runners with each other. Less than a thousand runners participated in the said event. The lack of runners gives me an advantage: Less of those walls of people that block your possibilities of beating your time or somebody else's.
But the lack of people also poses another problem: It makes you more vulnerable to be at the end of the pack, since, well, there's not much anybody to fill that space. So if you don't run well, you'll be shamed to the back end. Nobody wants to be last in a race.
Oh, and to ruin my day even more, the trail goes through endless elevation changes. At the first leg we had to climb up a hill, then later on go down. My knees were immediately damaged by the feat. Then we had to go around the Festival Supermall, alternating between the inner and outer circle three times. The two circles are separated by elevation changes as well. Ouch!
Then we had to go through several streets and U-turns, because apparently the organizers had run out of road for our feet to run onto. The last leg of the race is an uphill climb on the West Gate hill, contrary to the sprint downhill in the same place.
After the race my feet and legs were left in terrible shape. I couldn't get up and down staircases without looking like someone with a fractured knee (thankfully I didn't have that). It only took two hours of napping, and there, my body regenerated quite easily.
But recovery isn't over yet. I didn't train earlier this morning, as I needed some rest.
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