Run with Yanx: The Series

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Yanx loves to run. Vanz likes to take pictures. Put them together. You'll have Run with Yanx series. Here goes the very first post:

PACE UP @ UP Diliman


Runners are early risers!

Start and Finish Line


Running buddies with their finisher medals

Early meal at Mang Jimmy's

RUN UNITED @ SM MOA

One of the biggest running event in the Philippines.....
.... and one of the most organized.


Long? Try ultramarathon...
Concert, anyone?
Rodeo!
Need some stretching?

Pictures abound...

Some entertainment for the kids and kids-at-heart

More booth

Foodie!

We hope nobody went to this station

Play area...yipee!

Kuya Kim

Kuya Yanx

Hmmm....
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
--William Faulkner 
(Taken from Famous Running Quotes at http://www.brocawblazers.org/camp/running_quotes.html)


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