First Balfour’s Macky de Lima finished the 2013 Mayon 360km. ultra marathon in 14:56, placing 167th. Due to the punishing heat, only 193 runners out of 210 completed the April 6 race,whose 15-hour cutoff time the organizers had extended to 16 hours. To keep himself going throughout the 80-kilometer ultra marathon, the head of First Balfour’s Treasury department thought of the treats that he was going to savor post-run. De Lima said he was also propelled by “helper’s high,” the knowledge that he would be emailing good news to his supporters who pledged a financial amount for his personal fundraising project; De Lima’s chosen beneficiary was an orphanage in Iriga. He reached the finish line at almost 7 p.m. to cap more than half a day on the road.

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Journalists laughed and learned their way to good health in the Economic Journalists Association of the Philippines (EJAP) Wellness Fair: Doing it the Write Way held at The Grove by Rockwell on April 27.

The Lopez Group organized the fair for the members of EJAP, the organization of business reporters and editors from Manila’s broadsheets, as well as their family members.

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