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Thursday, April 13, 2006
Marathon Clinic opens
By Syril G. Repe
THE Dumaguete City Tourism Office and The Metro Dumaguete Roadrunners Club launched on April 9 their joint Marathon Clinic at Rizal Boulevard.
The clinic is patterned after the world famous Honolulu Marathon clinic in Hawaii, which trained thousands of people to run their first 42.195-kilometer marathon and founded by world-renowned cardiologist Dr. Jack Scaff Jr.
It aims to train runners who would attempt to complete 21-K half-marathon in November to give them the chance to participate in an activity that would improve the physical fitness of the participants.
Regular participation in the one-hour run regimen of the clinic would also serve as a preventive measure to arrest the growing incidence of lifestyle diseases like heart disease, which is now the number killer in the city.
Cecilio D. Tayko, president of the Dumaguete Roadrunners Club, said that the marathon clinic is free of charge and open to everybody interested to join.
He said Mayor Agustin Perdices has issued a memorandum urging all city government employees to join the program.
Dr. Perry Mequi of Foundation University is the training consultant of the program.
The sponsors of the clinic are Ramas Uypitching Sons, Paramount Life and General Insurance, Dumaguete Muythai Association, Foundation University, and CTO among others.
(April 13, 2006 issue)
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