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Race the World Challenge: We are Team Philippines!

In my previous post I talked about how Manila isn’t an official physical race city. But that doesn’t mean we aren’t part of the competition. Apart from the 10k race, the Race the World Challenge serves as a warm up for the big event on the 31st.

An interesting social experiment!

As of today, the Philippines ranks 14th (we were 13th as of 8.17.08) in the global race for most kilometers uploaded using a Nike+ Sports Band.

The running chart results is actually very interesting on several levels (aside from the trash talking on the side as you can see in the 3rd screen cap). First off, we’re the highest ranking Asian developing country in the race. In terms of Asian countries, we are second to Japan but we are also way ahead of South Korea and Taiwan. In terms of distance uploaded we are head to head with Denmark, Sweden and Argentina. Not bad. Not bad at all. What this means is that we have a remarkable participation of running enthusiasts who can afford to shell out a luxurious $100.00 (rough price) just to run. Do you have other conclusions you want to share?

Note: This could also mean that we have Filipinos who are clocking in from different countries but setting Philippines as the host country team.

If you own a Nike+ Kit and haven’t logged your miles to this competition, please do so! You can do this by clicking here and choosing Philippines as your team on the lower right. The countries are not listed alphabetically, but by rank. As the saying goes, sayang ang miles!.

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New Manny Pacquiao Nike TV Commercial

According to Nike Philippines, this is the very first globally produced television commercial for Nike and Manny. The ad has elicited some comments on production value vis a vis being globally produced. Honestly I may have expected more, but this is a commercial that I’ve grown to love watching it over and over again – it’s only 30 seconds.

The second Pacquiao commercial (this is the first) is part of the Bryant, Sharapova, Xiang, Ronaldo, Federer series.

Maybe they should have shown some vids of him dancing in Embassy. 🙂

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Nike+ Running Widget

Three days ago I said my piece about what people would go through to stay fit. As the year begins I’m trying my best to get back in shape so as an incentive to me, I decided to post my Nike+ running statistics on my blog. If you can’t find it, it is on the right sidebar right before my Adsense widget.

Please cheer for me! The goal is to try to do a minimum of 2.5K runs at least twice a week.

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Does the Nike+ kit really encourage you to stay fit?

Nike Plus Baby!

How apt for the holidays. A bought a Nike+ kit a few months ago about the same time I got the fatty nano. Inspired to lose weight and reinvigorate my athletic self (I used to be able to do a one mile run in 7 minutes – not bad) I set out on the adventure of jogging around the village park.