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It takes a village… In fact, for every single runner in the 2023 Bohol International Marathon, there are more than a dozen persons who volunteered blo0d, sweat and tears to perform several of many crucial tasks to make one’s time on the road as smooth, enjoyable and safe as we all hope and pray it would possibly be.
From the tireless staff of giant resorts, restaurants and boutique hotels, the health drink providers, lechon roasters, poso weavers, fruit suppliers, to the marshals, medics, men in uniform who’ve been there since year one. From the radio communications group to our warm-up dancers, our emcees, ice and water suppliers, our baker-partners, massage therapists, traffic enforcers, many more; and a doctor who first taught us how to run during early morning sessions at the oval… Everything is stitched together by hours of meetings, sleepless nights of planning and years of learning.
Our BIM core group has done its homework. Before we created BIM, we enrolled in running clinics, ran for 3 consecutive years in Hong Kong and Singapore marathons. Our BIM ladies completed ultra marathons, did Camsur, Davao, Cebu, BGC, Iloilo, CDO, Manila, more places in the archipelago. We also tested the roads in Paris, the jogging trails in Japan, Central Park in New York, even climbed and ran on the Great Wall of China.
The guys who make our singlets each year have completed the world majors in Berlin, Tokyo, Chicago, Singapore, Melbourne, Thailand. The designers tasked to do the concept and look of our medals and shirts for the past 10 years are international award-winning inter-disciplinary artists led by a University of Santo Tomas-, University of the Philippines-Diliman-schooled fine artist who taught advertising arts as a pioneering professor of the University of San Carlos.
We didn’t come to the party with an empty plate.
Our last run was in 2019. A world lockdown forced us to halt plans the following year. Super typhoon Odette further prolonged the wait. The Flower of Life is our main theme and inspiration this year. This symbolizes the cycle of life and rebirth. Hey, you’re alive and running! Let’s celebrate life!
With a vengeance you are back in Bohol this week at BE Grand Resort Bohol for kit claiming and carbo loading. And you just made our small run with a big heart now one of the biggest sporting events in the country!
In behalf of the many, many awesome Boholanos working behind the 2023 Bohol International Marathon-The LIFE Run, welcome to our amazing island province.
Happy running! And do run safe!
#2023BIM
Bohol International Marathon
AUGUST 27, 2023
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