by Ted Lerner, ringtv.craveonline.com
BAGUIO CITY, Philippines-- Dawn in mid-March at Baguio City’s Burnham Park is about as pleasant a time as anywhere in the world. The town is just beginning to stir. The early morning light illuminates the verdant greens of the pine trees, and the yellows, reds and purples of the flowers spread all around. At 5000 feet above sea level, the temperature is slightly cool. It is the perfect time and place to go for a run. But Manny Pacquiao, who was supposed to do road work here this Wednesday morning, is nowhere to be found.
“He did the hills today so tomorrow he’ll do the flat run at the park,” one of Pacquaio’s many managers had said on the phone the day before. “One day he does the one, the other he does the other.”
It was on that quirky promise that I dragged myself out of the hotel bed in the cool morning darkness and came to the park to watch Pacquiao run on his third day of training camp. Read Full Story
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