For only a short span of five years Condura
Marathon has gained popularity and respect as one of the premier race events in
the Philippines. This year Condura Marathon has for the third sucessive years
made use of the Skyway and has added the word SKYWAY in its official race event
as “Condura Skyway Marathon 2012” with this years’ theme “Run For The
Mangroves”. This years’ race categories 42/21/16/10/5/3 all made use of the
Skyway an achievement in itself.
When
the venue for the event was made known to be shifted to Ayala Alabang I had my
apprehension because of the distance from Metro Manila but after witnessing the
way the race was organized and handled the event, the manner in which the
organizers has made use of the natural layout of skyway entrance tunnel as
chute for wave starting formation it was a genius conceptualization of an ideal
race event.
Another
first for this year was the starting time for the different race events which
has the full marathon flagged down at mid-night, 21k at 3:30am, 16k at 4:00am,
10k at 5:30am, 5k at 6:30 and 3k at 7:10am was a great idea to have full
control of the road and race at all times. This may have entailed more time,
money and manpower, but, the organizers are willing to spend to deliver an
ideal race.
I
wish to congratulate the Concepcion brothers, Tonton and Patrick for been the
driving force behind the race advocacy of Condura. I have witnessed the
development of Condura Marathon in the last five years and have only admiration
of their commitment to deliver a race for runners by runners being themselves.
I
have only one wish for Condura Marathon for 2013, that is hoping that the
Department of Tourism (DOT) will adapt this event as an official tourism event
for the month of February 2013. Condura Marathon 2013 could showcase that race
events in the Philippines are not only handled at par with those of the world
but even better. They could make use of the slogan “ RUNNING – is more fun in
the Philippines”.
Nature
even was with the race event today as the temperature was really cool at 22
degrees centigrade making it another contibutory factor for an ideal race
event.
Congratulations
to the Condura Team!
“RUNNING
– is more fun in the Philippines”
