"on a shoestring"

Running shoes are runners’ most important gear, unless of course you belong to the barefoot running
community. Anyway, adidas creates one of their fastest shoes to date called the adizero F50 Runner 3. As
a lightweight runner, I tried using the adizero Ace before and it was one of my fave running shoes.

This new adizero F50 Runner 3 is another creation under the brand’s lightweight range, a result of precise
engineering and thorough research to help athletes find new levels of fast.

The adizero F50 Runner 3 features the lightest advanced technologies such as the SPRINTFRAME
platform. It replaces the conventional (more heavyweight) shoe construction while maintaining important
performance characteristics, such as comfort and stability, and allowing for optimum forefoot propulsion.
Fully integrated in the SPRINTFRAME platform is the TORSION® SYSTEM which allows independent
movement of the fore- and rearfoot.

Inspired by the dynamic 3-Stripes execution and seamless upper design of the F50 football boot, which
is worn on the field of play by adidas football ambassadors such as Lionel Messi, the F50 Runner 3 also
features FORMOTION™ technology which adjusts to every runner’s individual style and assists the
runner’s take-off with every stride. The shoe also offers full forefoot adiPRENE®+ which propels the
forefoot for an improved toe-off.

Some of the fastest athletes in the world, such as Yohan Blake (100m World Champion), David Rudisha
(Olympic 800m gold medalist and world record holder) and Patrick Makau (marathon world record
holder) trust the adizero range in their competitions.

More features:

miCoach compatible, miCoach is an interactive personal coaching and training coach used by runners to
help themselves motivated to run faster.

Price: PHP 5695.

For more information on adidas Running, please visit www.adidas.com/running, or their social media
news room www.news.adidas.com or follow on www.facebook.com/adidasPhilippines.

About adidas

Adidas is a global designer, developer and marketer of athletic footwear, apparel and accessories with
the mission to be the leading sports brand in the world. Brand adidas is part of the adidas Group, a
corporation that includes brands such as Reebok, TaylorMade and Rockport.

*This post is made in partnership with Nuffnang Philippines for Adidas.

Yep, one of my dreams in my running career is now a reality!

I’m on Runner’s World Philippines Rave Run section- January-March issue with Kuya Kim Atienza on the cover. 

I submitted a photo of my rave run last year and they thought it deserves a feature on the Rave Run section of the famed running magazine.

Short story: When I started running last 2009, I bought old issues of Runner’s World magazines and amazed myself of the rave run photos. I always check their website to see the beautiful places to run and dreamed of running those beautiful spots myself. Yep, I even dreamed of seeing myself on the magazine itself. Now, that dream is a reality for me. Thanks Runner’s World!

I haven’t got hold of the magazine yet but my friend Allan sent me a twitpic:

Rave Run twitpic

“It was bliss, nirvanic at every stride and all endorphins in my body were flowing like crazy. It was like I was transported in another dimension- to paradise.”

I checked Runner’s World Philippines Facebook page and found out that they also used another photo of mine (this time front view) as their cover photo. What an honor! Salamat!

RW Facebook cover photo

Ang buhay ay weather weather lang, the start of this year a good weather for me. And I predict that the rest of the year would be sunny for me!

More info about this photo:

Name of Photographer:  James Betia, I set my 10-second timer after running 5kilometers to remind me of the nirvana I experienced during this run.

Runner’s World PH cover

Name of Runner: James Betia (yes, that’s me! Look at my sexy back)

Why is it a rave run?

“The morning run was one of a kind. The beach was unspoiled, the sea breeze uplifting and the sun invigorating. It was bliss, nirvanic at every stride and all endorphins in my body were flowing like crazy. It was like I was transported in another dimension- to paradise. How I miss that feeling- my mind was peaceful. My feet were just smiling as they were connected to the ground I’m running.”

Thanks for the feature Runner’s World Philippines. Next on my list, on international Runner’s World magazine! Wooohooo!

While browsing over what’s happening, I saw this online poster that really captured my mind:

2013 Pico de Loro Tri Invitational

Swim for our reefs

Bike for our mangroves

Run for our turtles

If I’m a triathlete I would definitely join this event, but then what I can do is just promote this on my blog.

This will happen on April 6, 2013 (Saturday) at Pico de Loro Cove at Hamilo Coast in Nasugbu, Batangas.

Registration starts on February 2013 so you have more time to practice.

So if you are interested, you can contact Pico de Loro Cove for details.

Just wanna share this exciting news for those who want to but new rads this new year.

Royal Sporting House will have their Megatrade Sale Event on January 30 to February 3, 2013.

RSF Official Poster

Kindly invite your friends, relatives and Eastwest Credit Cardholders to come and visit as they will enjoy BIG discount of up to 80% OFF. Exciting  prizes also await the lucky shoppers.

So you have been watching the news and saw that the provinces of Davao Oriental and Compostella Valley were hit really hard, ravaged by Typhoon Pablo. So what you do know?

This is a run where you can continue aiding the victims of this deluge:

Ten Moves: Run For 10

Run for 10 is a fun run organized by and for the benefit of The Entire Nation (TEN) Moves!, a social mobilization campaign of Bayanihang Pampaaralan which aims to raise enough resources to help build 10,000 classrooms in public schools all over the Philippines.

Proceeds of the run for will be directed to building classrooms in typhoon Pablo affected areas, such as Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental.

It will be held on January 13, 2013, at the Ayala Triangle Gardens in Makati City, and will be organized simultaneously in 10 other provinces in the Philippines, namely Butuan, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Dipolog, Dumaguete, Legazpi, Pampanga, Tarlac, Zamboanga, and Zamboanga Sibugay.

For further inquiries, please contact the TEN Moves Secretariat at (632) 752-1061 or emailinfo@tenmoves.org.  You can also add us on Facebook at facebook.com/TENMoves or follow us on Twitter through @TEN_Moves.

Registration forms are available at The T-Shirt Project branches in Market! Market!, Trinoma, and at the 2nd floor of Glorietta 2. For your convenience, you may download the registration form here, then please print, fill out, and give to any of the registration centers.

For more infos, you can check their official website: TEN MOVES: Run for 10 

I will join the 5K run, see you guys on the 13th, Ayala Triangel it is! –journeyingjames