Dumaguete Marathon

Rice Donors

We would like to express our gratitude and appreciation to the following who donated rice and, thus, have made the Dumaguete Adventure Marathon. the only “Rice is Life” marathon in the whole world, fulfill its advocacy to proclaim to everyone the need to treat Rice–the golden grain of life–with respect and love. Maraming Salamat po sa inyong lahat!

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Rice is Life DAM

A unique feature of road races, sports, cultural and other competitive events organized by the Foundation University Institute of Youth Sports for Peace (FU-IYSPeace) since 2006, is the use of rice, instead of cash, as prize awarded to the winners and participants. This practice is adopted by the University as one of its various institutional corporate social responsibility (CSR) to create awareness of the need to conserve rice and in support of the Asia Rice Foundation “Rice is Life” and the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) “Save Rice. Save Lives,” campaigns.Read more »
5th Leandro Sinco Challenge Races (5th Quarter Marathon and 1st Duathlon)
The 5th Leandro Sinco Challenge Races (3km, 5km & 10.5km Quarter Marathon) will start at the Robinsons Place through Perdices Street croos Old Banica River Bridge to the historic Rizal Boulevard and through the flat paved road of Barangays Looc-Piapi-Bantayan and turn back the same route to FINISH at the Robinsons Place. Turning Points for 3km Kiddie Run at the intersection of Tinago Bridge, the 5km will be in fromt of Don Atillano near the intersection of San Juan Street and 10.5 km turns in front of the SU Farm Gate at Brgy. Bantayan.

The 1st Leandro Sinco Duathlon 38.5 km (2.1km Run-35 km Bike-1.4 km Run)

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All systems go for Nov. 22 adventure marathon
“Ilang tulog na lang!”

Final preparations are being reviewed to ensure the smooth holding of the first-ever Dumaguete Adventure Marathon at 5:30 a.m. this coming Sunday, Nov. 22.

Dr. Aparicio Mequi, director of the Institute of Youth Spots for Peace (IYSPeace) at Foundation University, which is spearheading this event, said many runners from other parts of the country have already signified their intention to run on Sunday, which will bring the number of runners at about 3,000.

“This promises to be a fun event,” Mequi said in a final briefing before teachers and administrators of Foundation University last Friday.

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BLOG

The Starting Bloke
06/16/2010

For some four years, I negotiated the streets and environs of Dumaguete riding a bicycle. One day, I tried to walk from the FU main campus to the north campus, and I was shocked the usual spring and strength to perform the basic human locomotion movement of walking. I am back to walking now, and ride my bicycle only when necessary. Read the rest of this entry »

NEWS

07/10/2010

Duathlon Poster

11/23/2009

3,500 join Dumaguete Adventure Marathon

DUMAGUETE CITY–The resonant boom from a giant firecracker, followed by a 15-minute fireworks show at 5:30 a.m., broke the silence of Dumaguete City’s Rizal Boulevard Sunday to send some 3500 competitive and fun runners on their feet for the first-ever Dumaguete Adventure Marathon which organizers and participants hailed as a successful event.

Competitive runners for the 28.3-kilometer adventure marathon came from all over the country to include Dumaguete, Bacolod, Silay, Cebu, Diplog, Iloilo, Manila, Quezon City, Makati, Mandaue, Sta. Maria, Butuan, San Juan, Lapu-Lapu, San Carlos, Parañaque, Cavite, Bago, Talisay, Toldedo, Dapitan, and Pasig.

11/17/2009

THE MARATHON—FU’S GIFT TO NEGROS ORIENTAL, DUMAGUETE CITY

Name a city, a city state like Hong Kong and Singapore, a tiny country like Nepal and Brunei Darussalam, even poor Bangladesh, and you can be sure, each of them has a marathon. Why? Because marathon is the biggest tourism event in the world today.

Thus, there are thousands of marathons being staged all over the world the more famous being the Amsterdam, Boston, Berlin, Chicago, Honolulu, London, New York, Paris, Rotterdam and Stockholm Marathons.
In Asia, there are 77 marathons scheduled for this year, with Japan having 24, India (10), Taiwan (7), China (6), Korea (5) Thailand (4) and Malaysia (3). The Singapore marathon, scheduled on Dec 22, has more then 60,000 entries, forcing the organizers to stop further registration.