I am a junior partner in a law firm in Makati City who started running in 2008 purely for health reasons. In late 2009, I decided to up the ante by joining races. Joining races was really the turning point as it took my running to a whole new dimension. Whereas before I would be happy to run a couple of 5k's a week, now I need to program my runs into repeats, intervals, tempo and easy runs - all in the pursuit of running excellence.