Coming into this race, what preoccuppied my mind is if I will do better than my previous 10K , specially since this race had the theme - Beat Your Own Time. Aside from my regular runs, I tried formulating race strategies that could improve my time. I settled for just taking my 1 minute walk breaks at the water stations and at the uphill ramps of the Buendia flyover. If that turns out to be too hard, I'll go back to a 4:1 run-walk ratio. At the race, I did my first walk break at the first water station but decided to go back to a 4:1 run-walk ratio after that. Everything went well until somewhere in the last 2 kilometers when my iPod Touch app - Run-Mate, which prompts me when to walk and when to run, stopped prompting. I noticed that the prompt for me to walk is taking too long, I was getting really tired and my heart rate has reached Zone 4. So, I did it the old fashioned way - use my stop watch, until the finish. I finished with a time of 1:27, an 8 minute improvement from my pre