The top two finishers of the 50K distance teaming up to battle the sweltering summer heat of Antique and the unforgiving talahib of Laua-an. (photo courtesy of Mark Ian Vescatcho) |
The
inaugural 50K of Tracing Iraynon-Bukidnon Trails has been a testimony of the
struggle, fortitude, defeat and victory of the human spirit! Everyone came
prepared, so they thought. But what transpired during the race proved to be an overwhelming shocker even to those who had reconnoitered
the route before the race. In the end only seven of the pioneering
twenty-two brave warriors crossed the finish line within the 15-hour cut-off
time.