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.

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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.

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Several times in a week, broadcaster Roy Bustillo could be seen with his buddies making the rounds of the Perdices Coliseum rubberized track.
“We’re trying to get in shape for the Dumaguete Adventure Marathon,” Bustillo, president of the Kapisanan ng mga Broadcaster sa Pilipinas Negros Oriental Chapter, explained.

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Organizers have launched the biggest fiesta marathon in Negros Oriental.

The Dumaguete Adventure Marathon, which will be held on Sunday, Nov. 22, will be the first marathon here which will not be run on just a flat track. Instead, the marathon will take runners from Dumaguete’s Rizal Boulevard and up to barangay Calabnugan in Sibulan town, and barangays Balili and Palinpinon in Valencia town before heading back to Dumaguete, ending at the Sidlakang Negros Village.
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