Hi everyone!

Welcome to our official buddy run post. We're going to bring you with us today to try to be healthy and stay fit with this blog hahaha... and take a peek at some nice sites along the way.

It is our first time posting in this community and we've been wanting to since we've seen the introduction of this by sir @glecerioberto. We've been thinking for a long time as to what will best fit our first post in Personal Development, now we think that our 7/11 virtual buddy run belongs to this community ❤.

So what are we waiting for? Let's run already 😊.

WAKING UP

This might be one of the hardest thing ever a working person needs to do everyday, waking up, especially since it's Sunday morning and it is our only day we can wake up later than 8am haha.

After setting up our alarms at 4am ⏰, we firmly decided to really go early morning so that we won't run with the scorching heat of the sun. But even with that "firm" decision before we went to sleep, we still weren't able to stick to our words hahaha. We woke up at around 5am already with Jessa being the one to wake up everyone. We only had 30mins of preparation. After stretching, we hurriedly started our run. We're already delayed for one hour hahaha 😅.

We started at the house of Jessa around 5:30AM. But I think it isn't really a "run" for us, but more on walking haha. We're so used to riding our company service in going back and forth of our house and office, no exercise / walking only a little bit everyday.

That is why this buddy run is really a challenge for us and hoping that it will promote our personal development by the end of the finish line.

STAR TO FINISH

Leaving the house of Jessa, we started running slowly. After a few minutes, we stopped by Gaisano SRP 🛍 then took a picture. Stopped at Lantaw 🤤 then took a pic. Stopped by Fish Port 🐟🐠 then took a pic.

Had our water break at South Road Properties (SRP) because isn't it nice to drink water and freshen up by the beach while looking at the sunrise view?

So many stops already hahaha but anyway, we continued jogging/ running / walking until it rained. It suddenly poured and we needed to stop by first at a broken waiting shed and wait for it to stop. We tried asking for some strangers to take our group pic but they all refused to 😂.

So again, we needed to do it by ourselves. Strong independent women 👸👑.

We then decided to finish our 10km virtual run at IL Corso. So we went around the place again and again to finish our remaining distance and register it on our phone's meter reader. We took a lot of pics along the way that's why we've finished the run at a later time 🤣. There are a lot of beautiful sites at IL Corso.

You can have a nice view here of the Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway (CCLEX), a newly-built bridge here in Cebu.

There are a lot of beautiful flowers and plants on the way that some street vendors sell too 🌺.

Whenever you feel hungry around the area, you can easily buy from the open kiosks at Food Yard 🤤.

We can feel the spirit of Christmas in the air 🌲.

We recorded it on the running app that we've finished it at 2 hours 23 minutes & 55 seconds and later uploaded it in 7-eleven website.

We walked from IL Corso to SM Seaside to ride a bus going back to Jessa's place. We bought taho on our way there.

If you still haven't tried one, then we'll recommend this to you in your next visit in PH 😀. It tasted sweet and yummy. We continued walking after that and passed by Ocean Park, and once again... we took a pic at their logo and its facade hahaha and while we're at it, we finished our tiktok stitch from Jessa's house until after we've finished our run.

FEAST AFTER THE RUN

At SM Seaside, we asked the guard right away as to where we can wait to ride the bus going to Talisay. He instructed that we should wait at the front of the mall. So we did. We did and waited for a bus to pass by but nothing happened. We realized that if we'll ride a taxi, we would just pay as much as that of the bus that we're waiting.

Arrived at Jessa's place at around 8am and her parents prepared a feast for us. WAAAAAAAAAHH! 😍 @thegoodbi and @lakwatserangthik really loves eating free foods... all the time 😁. We ate big shells (bongkaliw), pork lechon and chicken, grilled fish, hanging rice (puso) and seaweed (guso). We were so full and thankful for all the foods especially since we got to eat Talisay's most famous lechon. Cebu is famous for its lechon and you can taste the best in Talisay City 🐷.

GOING HOME

We rested for awhile after eating all those abundant feast. Some took a bath first, some just rested before going home. Just when we're about to go home, Jessa's parents prepared some coconut juice (lamaw/ butong). Yummy 🤤. After that, it's already time to go home.

AWARDS AND OTHER FREEBIES

_{Photo Credit: @lakwatserangthik on HIVE}

After sending proofs that we've finished the 10km run to 7/11's app, we waited for confirmation. We've received an email after just a few hours containing our finisher certificate, progress record (time finished, distance, and pace), and our entitlements/freebies. The sponsors of this run by 7/11 gave us a lot of free products for finishing the run.

We love free foods and drinks ❤.

Then after a few weeks, we received a text from 7-eleven that our finisher kit, medal and other shirts arrived at a specific branch just near us. They gave us 2 different shirts and a medal for each of us. Waaaaaaaaaahhh. A lot of rewards and freebies for us.

_{Photo Credit: @lakwatserangthik on HIVE}

To end this blog and our buddy run journey, we would like to thank our company and 7-eleven for the opportunity. And to Jessa's family for accommodating us and giving us a lot of foods haha. If we're given the chance to have such fun run again, we would do it again hahahaha because you really won't notice how far the run is if you're with your friends actually 😊.

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