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MARCH 1 - MARCH 7, 2020 9 RONALD WILSON SPORTS TALK HealthAssist@hotmail.com


the Department of Education here on requests that I present to them. So you may be curious, what do I request for anyway that would get a response of walay budget?


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Having been involved in the sport of athletics for many years, and over 10 years now here in the Philippines, I ponder on the need for specific sports equipment for our athletes.


From elementary through high school, our athletes


have the necessary equipment for


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alay budget is the usual response I get from various personnel at


improve our students physical performances. Walay budget? My thoughts on that: If there is not enough funds to invest in the sorely-needed training equipment, why is it that every year, DepEd is able to purchase elaborate uniforms for the athletes and coaches, and including the officials who participate in regional meets?


Millions of pesos are spent on caps, t-shirts, rubber shoes, the useless matching jogging pants and jackets, and even backpacks!


Will all those expenditures


the expected improved performance.


Neither do we have enough personnel who can adequately train and administer most of our sports programs.


So I’m sure you understand why we need to know why this well-funded government Department cannot even acquire the much-needed training equipment that would


on those clothing actually improve the performance of the competing athletes? Of course, not! Even your answer will be a resounding no.


Growing up as a high school runner and then later on as coach in the US, we were only provided the basic sports uniform -- which would even be returned after the season


afterthought. I have been coaching at the Presbyterian School in Cantil-e, and they have graciously provided me with a room to set up equipment for the training of their athletes. I have slowly purchased sports equipment over the years. And we have seen a marked difference in the athletes’ performance. Even the world’s fastest


“Walay budget”


man, Usain Bolt, did much more than just run, to achieve his fastest speed of 9.58 seconds to cover 100 meters, or a mere 19.19 seconds to sprint 200 meters. The 11-time world champion used many different equipment and machines to obtain


his goal before becoming the fastest man in the world. Even mere high schools in


the US invest in equipment, sporting facilities and workout rooms to hone the physical potential of the students (see photo here). Of course, we can’t match


what they have in the West but we gotta need to start somewhere.


ended.


Here in the Philippines it seems, competition is based on porma, the packaging, all for-show; actual show of physical skills, strength and endurance is an


I have also personally seen a number of athletes who perform well enough to advance to the Regional competition, but after that, they simply loose steam until they cease to practice. They couldn’t care less about competing anymore. They are just uninspired. Maybe some just wanted the goodies? So sad, but I suspect this is really due to lack of support because yet again, walay budget. *****


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GOING THE DISTANCE


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ast weekend in Bayawan, some local triathletes represented Dumaguete in a swim-bike- run competition called the Tawo- Tawo Triathlon Festival. The Tawo-Tawo Festival


is an annual event held in February in celebration of the fiesta of Bayawan City. The event has since attracted sports enthusiasts from all of Negros Island and other neighboring islands as far as Dipolog, after the City added the triathlon as a come-on to help celebrate their culture and heritage. The various teams send their best swimmers, cyclists, and runners to compete. Dumaguete’s triathlon teams did an outstanding performance, and brought home trophies and pride. These individual triathletes live a normal life like you and me, but whose passion is in endurance sports. They are regular people who hold decent jobs or are still busy finishing projects at school. They go about their daily life juggling family, job, school, training, and socialization. Some of you might wonder, “But how on earth can you do all that?”


limit, and is regarded as the hardest of all categories -- often called the Ironman or 140.6 (the total miles), consisting of a 3.8 kilometer swim, a 180-kilometer bike, and a 42- kilometer run/full marathon, all to be finished in one day. That’s like swimming


from the pier area upto the reclamation area at the Press Club about four times back and forth; then come out of the water, wear cleats, to ride the bike going south to the town of Sta. Catalina and back to Dumaguete; then wear rubber shoes and run from Dumaguete to the town of Amlan and back to Dumaguete to the finish line -- all within a 17-hour cutoff. (Someday I will tell you how I completed my Personal Best in Ironman in 12 hours, 39 minutes, 20 seconds.)


Triathlon


The Central Visayas Regional Athletic Association (CVRAA) meet will be held beginning on March 15 right here in Dumaguete City. Stay tuned for the athletic results.


With the right discipline and dedication and passion, of course, it is possible to juggle all that well. Triathlon is an endurance sports that combines three sporting disciplines in one race. It’s been around since the early 1970s where it was first contested in Mission Bay, in San Diego, California. The sequence is swimming some distance in open water, transition to cycling, and running to the finish line. The distances for each event vary according to their categories. The shortest distance is called Sprint. It consists of 750-800 meters swim, a 20-kilometer cycling, and a 3.1 kilometer run.


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JMT BELEN PAWNSHOP Kanhi Agencia Belen Surban


Dr. V. Locsin St., Dumaguete City


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SUBASTA AGENCIA BELEN


Perdices St., Brgy. 3 Dumaguete City


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SUBASTA JF BELEN PAWNSHOP


Kanhi Agencia Belen Br. IV Twin Arcade Bldg. Dumaguete City


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A Standard distance consists of 1500-meter swim, a 40-kilometer bike, and 10-kilometer run.


Long Distance category splits in two. One is called Half Ironman or 70.3 (the total miles of all the three sports) which consists of a four-kilometer swim, 120-kilometer cycling, and 21 kilometer run/half marathon. The other is reserved for those who want to test their


recommends… to help reduce Plastic Pollution Common Sense Choices


• Always bring a reusable bag and refuse plastic bags from the stores. • Instruct your household help to go to the market with a basket or a reusable bag. • Bring a pail for fresh fish and meat products, and an appropriate container for cooked food, bread and pastries.


• Recycle your plastics and paper bags. • In restaurants/fastfoods, tell the waiters ahead/while ordering that you are refusing the use of plastic straws in your drinks. (They stick straws in your glass as a matter of habit.) There’s nothing wrong with drinking straight from the glass.


• Refuse plastic stirrers and plastic cutlery. • Bring your own reusable straw. Bamboo straws are available in town. • In catered events and parties, instruct your caterer: No drinks in plastic bottles. No plastic straws. No plastic stirrers for coffee. No plastic spoons & forks. No Styrofoam/plastic glasses. No Styrofom containers for packed food. Styrofoam is banned in Dumaguete.


• Choose to serve snacks and food in biodegradable containers like paper or better yet, on banana leaves.


• For mass offerings in church: No plastic/cellophane wraps for the fruits, etc. Use instead Japanese paper or Manila paper. Or better yet, woven leaves or basketry which is biodegradable.


• In cemeteries or at home/office, avoid plastic flowers and plastic plants as decoration. • Discourage the practice of releasing balloons in parties or in funerals. • Make a compost pit for your biodegradable trash at home, in school, in convents. It will lessen your garbage for the City Dump by at least 50 percent.


• After funerals at the cemetery, ensure that someone will take away all the trash (papers, tetrapacks, etc) of the visitors, and dispose them properly. The cemetery management must collect a clean-up fee, which can be refunded if the family ensures cleanliness after the ceremonies. This teaches all to respect and care for where our loved ones are buried.


core values, strategic directions and annual operational plans. In particular, I would like to thank the past and present directors during my incumbency for their all-out support, trust and confidence in my leadership of the board: the late Felicidad Ruiz, Dr. Sylvia Flores, Dr. James Jed Rosales, Dr. Ma. Milagros Velez, Judge Tirso Banquerigo, Val Alfa Vidal, Elmer Teves, Ma. Emma Dael; Atty. Vivian Maquiling, Marina Mendoza, Mary Magdalene Villegas, Atty. Felix Araula III, Atty. Lowell Andaya, Edilberito Euraoba II


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First and foremost, one needs to be in excellent health to even start training for a triathlon. You will need some extra time to cover the distance needed in mastering each sport everyday, and sometimes twice a day. Time would seem more manageable to a single person or one who lives alone than it would appear for one who has marital duties and responsibiliteis to children, and could be challenged by balancing training and family. Without any financial support from marketing deals, this sport also favors those who have a well-paying job or a profitable business. The longer the event’s distance, the more training hours are required, if one wants to finish well in the race. To give you an idea of a


typical week in a triathlete’s life, your day starts before sunrise to train for swimming, cycling or running. Each discipline requires about three training days, and so a total of at least nine training days for all three disciplines are to be spread out in seven days of the week.


After the workout is done, it is routine to have a good breakfast and lunch to fill you up, and get yourself ready to face whatever the day will bring you. If a second workout


What we have achieved under my stewardship for 10 years (2010-2019): Membership increased to 119,097 from 36,067 in 2009. From four branches, we now have nine as of December 2019. There were no satellite offices when I assumed office but now, we have six. Our total assets skyrocketed to P5.9 billion from P952.1 million in 2009, same with our undivided net surplus which rose from P60.9 million to P296.2 million. During my term, DCCCO was recognized on the following: 2012 2nd placer, Most Outstanding Cooperative in the Philippines, Best in Community Involvement and Development; Outstanding Cooperative in Central Visayas Region;Most Outstanding Cooperative Leader in Region VII. Recognized by SIPAG


as 2016 Most Outstanding Community Enterprise, 2017 1st runner up of CDA Gawad Parangal Most Outstanding Cooperative in Region 7; 2017 Outstanding Cooperative Leader in Region 7; 2018 1st runner-up Most Outstanding Cooperative in Region 7; 2018 Gawad Parangal Special Citation for Excellence in Providing Financial Products/ Services to Members and Gawad Parangal National Nominee to the CDA Gawad Parangal; 2019 CDA Regional Gawad Parangal Award as lone awardee of the Outstanding Cooperative in Region 7 for “exemplifying best practices in good cooperative governance, and for excellent performance in financial inclusion services, providing effective access and wide range of financial products and services to members and community.” 2019 Most Outstanding


Primary Cooperative in the Philippines Award (the country’s most sought-after highest award); Gawad Parangal Special Citation as Best in Gender and Development Mainstreaming; and as National Finalist for the Gawad Parangal awards. Among the unique alliances


and partnerships that DCCCO has initiated:


armed conflict, tapped by the Cooperative Development Authority through its Cebu office to help solve


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is needed in that one day, then it should be done in the afternoon before dinner. Now one must never forget that you must have ample time reserved for family and personal life. (Otherwise, we don’t know what else there is to live for.)


Sometimes it is unavoidable that one will have to choose between life and sports. A good time management practice would help to always keep your priorities checked. (If you give up work to focus on training, what will pay for your triathlon training?) Triathlon is not a cheap sport. One has to invest on equipment like a good paid of goggles, a good bike, a good pair of running shoes, plus the accessories that go with it. To register for a race is another matter. The fees alone are prohibitive. Here in Dumaguete, they tease that the fees are mainly affordable mainly by businessmen, doctors and lawyers.


Then there’s the cost of travel if the race is outside Dumaguete. How to fly the bike (properly on a case) on the plane? When you get out of town, one has to think of the food and accommodation as well.


So why do triathletes like me even do it? And why keep on doing it? All I can say is that we are your regular mortals who just happen to love the sports of triathlon. *****


the eight-week Beginner Running Program. This week is the third week. Just a reminder that when you start to jog, slowly find your rhythm with two strides breathing in, and two strides breathing out. Week 3


5 minutes then do some light stretching. Do the workout: Day 1. Job 5 minutes, walk 1 minute. Repeat 5x Day 2. Jog 5 minutes, walk 1 minute. Repeat 5x Day 3. Jog 6 minutes, walk 1 minute. Repeat 6x Cool down by walking


Warm up by walking for Two weeks ago we started


5 minutes then do some stretches holding for about 10-20 seconds each group of muscles: hamstrings (back of thigh), quadriceps (front of thigh), and the calves (back of lower leg).


the insurgency problem in Negros Oriental through cooperativism.


Fish Right Partnership MOA to promote the Fish Right program through cooperativism was inked on Oct. 17, 2019. The parties have agreed to join forces in achieving the objectives for sustainable fishing, community development, and gender empowerment through stakeholder collaboration. 10M Trees Partnership MOA signed on Oct. 26 with the Energy Development Corp. for its 10M trees project implementation Partnership with the different schools for the Aflatoun Savings program benefitting 8,170 students who have deposited the total amount of P5.4 million, and with DSWD for family development trainings for 5,115 Pantawid or 4Ps beneficiaries that resulted to P30.2 million savings deposits from them. My heart aches with the thought that I will finally be leaving this dynamic organization and all the wonderful people who work for DCCCO to thrive all these years. But as the Bible says, there is a time for everything. Jeremiah 29:11also says, “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”


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