Adidas announced this week that its fastest marathoning shoe yet will drop on June 30. The adizero adios Pro is the company’s newest carbon-plated shoe – with a twist. Complete with five carbon-infused rods and LightstrikePRO midsole, this shoe doesn’t actually have a carbon plate per se.
This evolution of the adios Pro got started over a decade ago when Haile Gebrselassie shattered his own marathon world record in Berlin, running his personal best of 2:03:59, in the first version of the shoe. The protoype of this new iteration of the adios Pro made its racing debut at the 2020 Houston Half-Marathon, where the shoe was on the feet of Philemon Kiplimo and Abel Kipchumba, both Adidas athletes who finished in 59:28 and 59:35 respectively, for fourth and fifth place.
Twelve years later, the adios Pro is highly evolved and ready to take on the roads.
Like other companies, Adidas received lots of feedback from its professional runners, who include half-marathon world record-holder Joyciline Jepkosgei and 10K world record-holder Rhonex Kipruto. Their collaboration with Adidas is how the energy rods were born. Instead of the traditional full-slab carbon plate, energy rods are finger-like carbon sticks that move like the metatarsals in the foot. The rods are supposed to allow runners to maintain their speed for longer, optimize running economy and create less impact on the body. After all, marathoning is all about efficiency.
The following is the depiction of Covid-19 Cases among Filipinos Abroad, categorized by World's Regions:
The data came form the Department Of Foreign Affairs.
Last June 13, 2020, under the leadership of the Commanding General, Philippine Army Lieutenant General Gilbert Gapay AFP had extended help to all the Locally Stranded Passenger of Local Flights coming from Manila and going to the different destination within the country. These passengers were seen to be staying and sleeping, waiting for their scheduled flights, under the Skyway near the Ninoy Aquino International Terminal #3. Some of them are reported to be OFWs who arrived in Manila and in bound to their respective provinces in the South.
The stranded passengers were taken by the Army's buses and trucks from where they were staying and were brought to the Philippine Army Gymnasium. They were given proper accommodation and food during their stay in the said facility.
After almost one week of stay in the Philippine Army Gymnasium, they were finally brought back to the Airport Terminal after General Gapay had made the necessary travel arrangements with their respective Air Flight carriers.
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Army sends off 102 locally stranded individuals to NAIA Flight (Press Release From the Headquarters Philippine Army)
FORT BONIFACIO, Metro Manila - The Philippine Army sent off 102 locally stranded individuals (LSIs) to the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) for their confirmed flights today, June 19, 2020.
The Army coordinated with airline companies to schedule the flight of some of the LSIs temporarily sheltered at the Philippine Army Wellness Center (PAWC). Aside from the flight today, 52 LSIs have already been sent to their respective flights since the Army started accommodating them.
As of writing, another 47 LSIs are currently being processed and will first undergo an initial screening and COVID-19 rapid testing prior to accommodation.
The PA allocated the PAWC, the Army General Hospital (AGH) and specific areas in Libingan ng Mga Bayani (LNMB) to cater to the LSIs. The AGH is currently attending to six pregnant LSIs and two others showing signs of stress. A total of 408 LSIs have been accommodated since June 13.
“We hope for your safe travel as you return to your families, to your homes,” said Army Commanding General Lt. Gen. Gilbert I. Gapay before sending off the LSIs. “Despite the challenges we face today, know that wherever you go, the Philippine Army is here to help you,” he added.
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These acts and concern to our people being done by the Philippine Army speak well of their motto: "Serving The Nation, Across The Land"
Good job to the Philippine Army!
As I browse on the Internet yesterday morning, I came across a picture of Angel Locsin with a heavier body form and she looked to have added weight as compared to the pictures of her that I have seen last year and on the early part of this year. I immediately thought of looking back to the picture that I have with her. I knew that I was able to post the picture in my old blog and I was able to find it. The picture was taken on the last week of November 2009 when I saw her join a fun run sponsored by McDonalds. Actually, the picture was taken after we finished the event. And sometime in the past I saw movies where she starred and she got famous for portraying the local super heroine "Darna" and in other TV drama series in one of the biggest TV networks in the country. Comparing her body figure before and now is a big difference that I felt shocked about her body transformation.
After I posted my blog and photo video on YouTube, some of my friends sent me some messages telling me that she has some sickness or body problem and that is the reason why she can not move her body a lot and could not even do some exercises. Later, I found out an article on Google where a TV Talk Show personality asked her why she gained weight. She admitted in the said TV interview that she had a spine injury since 2015 and she is slowly recovering for the past years but it was a painful process because her movements were limited that she could not do some workout and exercises. She ignored her bashers on body shaming and she said that she concentrates more on her charity works and be happy with her daily life.
For the past 24 hours, Angel's fans and supporters rallied behind her when pictures of her at the present time became viral on the Internet in order to defend her. Her fans and supporters talked and defended her by using the words "body positivity". What impressed me since yesterday is that the good PR for Angel Locsin is really working with lots of her fans and supporters defending her in the printed media, online news platforms, and in Social Media. You Tube Channels (to include me as a "newbie") had been enjoying posting videos of the pictures of Angel Locsin from the past and from the present. Most of these videos are informational and supports the plight of the actress.
Personally, I was surprised to see her latest pictures posted in the Internet and tried to find out what went wrong with her since the time that I first met her in November 2009. Since that personal meeting, I have been a fan of her in her movies and TV Movie Series. It was only yesterday that I found out about her spine injury that she could barely move her body. For the past months when this Covid-19 Pandemic started, Angel Locsin was there to help to raise funds in support to the Government's effort to fight such virus. She even went to the extent of acquiring and distributing PPEs to our Frontliners. In short, she was very visible in her Charity works to help those people who in need during these times that we are in this Covid-19 situation. I really like her as a Movie & TV Personality and being a philanthropist in her civilian capacity.
Hereunder is the definition on "Body Positivity" as taken from the famous publication, Psychology Today:
How do you define body positivity?
Mallorie Dunn: To me, body positivity means accepting the body you have as well as the changes in shape, size, and ability it may undergo due to nature, age, or your own personal choices throughout your lifetime. It's the understanding that your worth and what's going on with you physically are two separate entities — that no matter what's happening inside, outside, or to your body, you're still just as worthwhile as the person next to you.
Kaila Prins: I like to think that body positivity's intention is really body acceptance. The idea that you can live comfortably in your body, as it is right now, or work on treating it right through nourishment and joyful movement and self care without punishing yourself for looking the way you do.
[According to the data crunchers at Whisper, 35.1 percent define body positivity as "being okay with flaws;" 29.3 percent define it as "loving yourself;" 21.1 percent define it as "being confident;" and 14.5 percent of users define it as "appreciating your body."]
How does someone become body positive?
Connie Sobczak: To be body positive, it is important to assume responsibility for figuring out what your body needs. In many ways, this feels harder than having an external "expert" voice tell you what to eat and how to move.
But playing with the word "responsibility" makes it much less intimidating: response ability simply becomes the ability to respond to the stimuli present. In this case, it is the ability to respond to sensations of hunger or fullness and the need for movement or rest.
This is the latest Road Race which is being organized and directed by Barkley Marathon's RD Lazarus Lake. It is simply called by its abbreviation---HOTS! It says about the condition and temperature that the runners will experience during their journey to the Finish Line. It started today (June 18, US Time) and it will end on June 28, 2020. It will take 10 days for the participants to finish the race on Self-Support or with a Support Vehicle and Crew.. I hope I will make the necessary updates in this blog as the race progresses. This is the FIRST Edition of this race. I have yet to find out the number of participants of this inaugural edition of this race.
Hereunder is the course description the race which I copied from the website of UltraSignUp. I tried to click the link of the Event's Website but it appear that the Great Virtual Run Across America Website would pop-out.
The HOTS is a journey run across time and space. Following the old Lee Highway, the first transcontinental route in the southern US, it will begin in Arkansas, crossing the Mississippi River on the Harahan Bridge, the same bridge as the first travelers on the Lee Highway used in 1919
Along the route between the Arkansas start and the finish at Castle Rock, Georgia, high atop Sand Mountain, the course will travel across rural Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama, passing thru numerous small sleepy southern towns. The participant will walk in the footsteps of history, walking everything from old Indian trails to stagecoach roads; from the Natchez Trace to the Trail of Tears. They will walk the ground trod by the soldiers who fought in campaigns of the Civil War and the Indian wars. They will pass through Huntsville’s Tech Town, where man’s first walk on the moon was planned using slide rules, and today’s trips across, and beyond, the solar system are accomplished with the most modern computer equipment. The runners can have lunch at a real soda fountain, in the oldest drugstore in Mississippi (opened by a confederate veteran after the war) and eat at lunch counters with men who plan trips into space.
For the lovers of Geology, the trip will cover a fascinating range of features, from the alluvial plain of the Mississippi to the top of Sand Mountain, crossing features like the Cumberland Plateau and the Sequatchie Valley.
Every journey run is an adventure, and this one has been laid out to provide a surprise around every corner. But the biggest surprise is what the runners find in themselves along the way.
Runners will park at the finish and be transported by tour buses to the start in Arkansas. After an overnight stay in a hotel, the field will be bused to the start the following morning. Daily tracking will be maintained, and runners wishing to drop will be transported back to their vehicles. Finishers will be shuttled with their vehicles to motels near the finish for a safe sleep before getting behind the wheel.
There is no greater freedom, than being totally self sufficient on the open road. Come experience it for yourself.
