| Photo Credit: Running Man PH |
What: Liberation of Panay Ultra Marathon ( Tri City Ultra Marathon)
When: Saturday, March 15, 2014 / starts at 3AM
Where: 50k start Iloilo City - Passi City
120k start Iloilo- Passi City - roxas City
Registration inclusion:
Singlet, tech. shirt, Finisher medal. post race meal.
Race Start :3:00 AM
50k Cut off 12:00 Hours
120k Cut off 24 Hours.
Registration fee:
120k Php - 2,500
50k Php 1,500R
Registered @
Faforma 2nd floor Mary Mart Mall
Valeria st Iloilo City. ( look for shiela)
and Persian Kitchen Jaro ( beside Save More)
look for carol shahmadardani and Afshin
or
Deposit to
Bpi - 1349-2732-05
( Federico Senen Rentoy)
Please keep your deposit slip for confirmation;
Organizer : Philippines Extreme Sport Explorer Club "PESEC" Inc.
Faforma and Prosports Iloilo.
Organizer: Iloilo Prosport and Running Doc Roberto Ledesma.
for inquiry :
Call/ Text 0998-182-5835
Federico Senen Rentoy
Faforma Mary Mart Mall
Iloilo City.
Rules and Regulation:
1)Cut of Time 12 Hours 50k / 24 hpurs 120k
2) Race start 3:00Am
3) No Pacer / bandit shall be allowed on the race unless is also registered. otherwise runner will be disqualified.
4) all participants required to bring their own hydration belt/ bottle and headlamp.
5) runners should always stay on the left side facing the incoming traffic.
the race is an open road. runners should be cautious on vehicles for safety purposes.
6) one support vehicles every 3 runners.
7) only registered supports vehicles will be allowed . tarpaulin will be given 2 hours before the gun start
.
8) support vehicles should always park on the far RIGHT side of the highway.
a runner will be disqualified if his/ her support vehicles is parked on the left side of the highway.
9) participants with out support vehicles may deposit their bag on the designated baggage counter . refrain putting valuables on your baggages organizer will not be liable for any loss or damage of the said things.
10) participants should be well trained and fit to qualify to race for this event; must at least a 21k for 50k/ 50k for 120k official race . a medical certificate along with the deposit slip must be submitted upon registration . ( prosport04@yahoo.com)
11) follow rules and regulation :
Details
a) Type of road concrete and asphal
b) proof of registration send scannd copyright of deposit slip with your complete name contact no. and size your finisher shirt to < prosport04@yahoo.com .
c) bib claiming race bib will be distributed a day before the event date.
d) Finisher inclusion , Finisher medal, finisher shirt , certificate of finish and post race meal.
fj) all station will be provided every 10km with hydration.
kindly communicate - < iloilo prosport 0998-182-5835> for more inquiry .
g) Runners are required to carry thier own headlights/ flashlights.
hl) bring your own first aid kit ( cotton , band aid, aid strap, anteseptic and anti biotic.
Registration inclusion - tech. shirt, Finisher medal, finisher shirt , post race meal.
HISTORY
Retaking Manila, Gen Douglas MacArthur realized, would symbolically break Japanese hold in the Philippines, and would serve as a great morale builder for Allied Forces in their effort to defeat Japan.
General Tomoyuki Yamashita considered Manila as too vulnerable to American attack and ordered his troops to evacuate to Northern Luzon for a last ditch stand where the mountains stood as natural barriers to any military assault.
Most of his soldiers quickly obeyed his command. But the Japanese naval troops under Rear Admiral Sanji Iwabuchi stayed in Manila; determined to fight to death. While the main American attack force was sweeping aside feeble Japanese defense positions in their push to Manila, Iwabuchi's forces were laying out an elaborate defense plan around Manila.
Streets were lined with razor-sharp barbed wires, trucks were overturned as barricades and machine guns placed on seemingly empty houses. Naval cannons were brought in from Japanese ships and placed in strategic places; and everywhere, mines awaited unwary soldiers. If Manila would be taken, the streets would be awash with Allied blood.
Bridges were blown off, as well as military installations, power, and water facilities. Manila stood still as a vengeful Japanese force waited for its final battle with the not-so-distant euphoric Allied army.
The Filipino and American guerrillas, sensing victory with the easy disposal of Japanese defenses they had encountered, reached the capital on February 3, 1945. But the Japanese defenders would not give them the city in a silver platter.
The Japanese soldiers fought with the savage ferocity of a wounded beast, displaying a kind of barbarity so alien to the Filipinos and Americans alike.
Civilians were mowed down, old men, women and children. The Japanese massacred them, shot them, bayoneted them, burned them and raped them. The Japanese rampage in Manila would be remembered in history as one notorious chapter of man's inhumanity to man.
Manila was destroyed in the ensuing battle. So fierce was the battle that not even the elegant giant stone buildings that distinguished Manila as one of the most beautiful colonial cities in Asia survived the holocaust.
A grim tally of 100,000 people perished. It was a devastated Manila that the Allied forces of the Filipinos and Americans retook that fateful February of 1945.
The Liberation of Panay
March 18, 1945
The re-conquest of Central Visayas by the Allied Forces, beginning with Panay Island on March 18, 1945 was motivated by their strategic value and concern of leaving their huge populations at the mercy of Japanese Occupation forces. The aim was to capture the Visayan waters' navigation routes, which would reduce the travel time of US supply ships navigating between Leyte, site of General Douglas MacArthur's return in October 1944, and Luzon, where the campaign of liberation by Filipino guerillas and US forces, was already in full swing.
The Allied Forces' retaking of Panay on 18th of March 1945, capped the liberation campaign begun three years earlier by the local guerillas. Practically the whole island was already a liberated zone, courtesy of the 6th Military District, (around 20,000-strong towards end of the war), under the command of Colonel Macario Peralta, Jr. In truth, from the early days of the Japanese occupation, much of Panay had been under the joint administration of Governor Tomas Confesor, who was Panay's governor during the Commonwealth era, and of the resistance fighters led by Col. Peralta.
In October 1944, Peralta received an order from General MacArthur to prepare Panay Island for the landing of US forces there on March 18, 1945. Preparation involved two parts - intensification of gathering of intelligence, particularly on changes of the enemy's movements and positions, which were crucial to the Allied landing plan; and the continued harassment of the enemy in order to disorient him and limit his movements. The 6th Military District carried out the order until the final phase of the struggle began in January 1945. From Lawa-an, Antique, the 6th MD moved its headquarters to Cabudian, Duenas in Iloilo Province to begin preparations for the last battle with the enemy.
The guerrillas' primary targets were the Tiring landing field, which had been garrisoned by some 250 Japanese soldiers, and the city proper of Iloilo itself, with more than 2,500 enemy troops scattered all over the city. A radius of obstacles, however, comprising of garrisons, pillboxes, breastworks, etc. - existed around the city. These were the challenges the guerrillas had to overcome before they could capture their targets.
Full-scale attack began in early February, with units of the 6th MD approaching from various directions, north, as well as from northwest of the beach, and from the north road. Engagements took place in sundry sites: sitios Jibaoan and Takas in barrio Mandurriao, Iloilo City and the towns the towns of Pavia Oton, Molo, San Miguel, La Paz, and Tigbauan, the last two with Japanese garrisons. Jaro, where the Japanese had erected garrisons in several places and buildings (at Barrio Balantang; at the Jaro Municipal building, at the Javelosa and Charito buildings) was the site of heavy fighting - also occurring along the Jaro River, in Barrio Buhang; Dungon Creek, etc.). Several thoroughfares (Jaro-Iloilo, Tigbauan-Oton, Jaro-Pavia, and Takas-Jaro roads) saw the guerrillas scoring against the enemy, thus obstructing flow of enemy reinforcements and supplies.
The sandy stretch from Dumangas in Iloilo to Capiz' northern area, was also guarded by the guerrillas, to prevent the enemy from attacking guerrilla positions in Jaro.
Fighting also took place in several places in Capiz- Culasi and Lantayan, Tinigban on Pooc Hill; and in Antique- in the capital of San Jose de Buenavista, where the enemy had a stronghold.
On Guimaras Island, 150 guerrillas assaulted the municipal building, which had been converted into Japanese barracks. Meanwhile, the garrison at Bagongon Point on Pan de Azucar Island, northeast of Iloilo, was captured by the guerillas on February 19.
The battle for Panay extended until the end of February with enemy casualties exceeding 700. The battle resumed around 7th of March, after Peralta's return from MacArthur's headquarters in Leyte. This time, the guerrillas had air support from US planes.
In the early morning of March 18, US naval forces arrived off the southern waters of Panay. Immediately, minesweeping operations were conducted, under the protective firing from destroyers, directed at the enemy positions on the island. Soon, troops of the 40th Division led by Major General Rapp Brush, of the United States' Eighth Army (under the command of General Eichelberger), landed on the beach of Tibauan, 22 kilometers to the west of Iloilo City. Instead of meeting the enemy, however, they received a rousing welcome by Filipinos, civilians and fighters alike, led by Col. Peralta and elements of the 6th Military District.
Meanwhile, with US ground forces advancing into Iloilo City, and the blocking operations of the 6th MD, the Japanese forces were forced to abandon their last stronghold and retreat to the hinterlands. Mop-up operations were later conducted on the rest of Panay, Guimaras and other islands.
On the 20th March, General Eichelberger and his contingent entered a city freed of enemy troops, but welcomed by crowds of cheering Filipinos. On 22 March 1945, General MacArthur officially declared Iloilo City liberated.
120k start Iloilo- Passi City - roxas City
Registration inclusion:
Singlet, tech. shirt, Finisher medal. post race meal.
Race Start :3:00 AM
50k Cut off 12:00 Hours
120k Cut off 24 Hours.
Registration fee:
120k Php - 2,500
50k Php 1,500R
Registered @
Faforma 2nd floor Mary Mart Mall
Valeria st Iloilo City. ( look for shiela)
and Persian Kitchen Jaro ( beside Save More)
look for carol shahmadardani and Afshin
or
Deposit to
Bpi - 1349-2732-05
( Federico Senen Rentoy)
Please keep your deposit slip for confirmation;
Organizer : Philippines Extreme Sport Explorer Club "PESEC" Inc.
Faforma and Prosports Iloilo.
Organizer: Iloilo Prosport and Running Doc Roberto Ledesma.
for inquiry :
Call/ Text 0998-182-5835
Federico Senen Rentoy
Faforma Mary Mart Mall
Iloilo City.
Rules and Regulation:
1)Cut of Time 12 Hours 50k / 24 hpurs 120k
2) Race start 3:00Am
3) No Pacer / bandit shall be allowed on the race unless is also registered. otherwise runner will be disqualified.
4) all participants required to bring their own hydration belt/ bottle and headlamp.
5) runners should always stay on the left side facing the incoming traffic.
the race is an open road. runners should be cautious on vehicles for safety purposes.
6) one support vehicles every 3 runners.
7) only registered supports vehicles will be allowed . tarpaulin will be given 2 hours before the gun start
.
8) support vehicles should always park on the far RIGHT side of the highway.
a runner will be disqualified if his/ her support vehicles is parked on the left side of the highway.
9) participants with out support vehicles may deposit their bag on the designated baggage counter . refrain putting valuables on your baggages organizer will not be liable for any loss or damage of the said things.
10) participants should be well trained and fit to qualify to race for this event; must at least a 21k for 50k/ 50k for 120k official race . a medical certificate along with the deposit slip must be submitted upon registration . ( prosport04@yahoo.com)
11) follow rules and regulation :
Details
a) Type of road concrete and asphal
b) proof of registration send scannd copyright of deposit slip with your complete name contact no. and size your finisher shirt to < prosport04@yahoo.com .
c) bib claiming race bib will be distributed a day before the event date.
d) Finisher inclusion , Finisher medal, finisher shirt , certificate of finish and post race meal.
fj) all station will be provided every 10km with hydration.
kindly communicate - < iloilo prosport 0998-182-5835> for more inquiry .
g) Runners are required to carry thier own headlights/ flashlights.
hl) bring your own first aid kit ( cotton , band aid, aid strap, anteseptic and anti biotic.
Registration inclusion - tech. shirt, Finisher medal, finisher shirt , post race meal.
HISTORY
Retaking Manila, Gen Douglas MacArthur realized, would symbolically break Japanese hold in the Philippines, and would serve as a great morale builder for Allied Forces in their effort to defeat Japan.
General Tomoyuki Yamashita considered Manila as too vulnerable to American attack and ordered his troops to evacuate to Northern Luzon for a last ditch stand where the mountains stood as natural barriers to any military assault.
Most of his soldiers quickly obeyed his command. But the Japanese naval troops under Rear Admiral Sanji Iwabuchi stayed in Manila; determined to fight to death. While the main American attack force was sweeping aside feeble Japanese defense positions in their push to Manila, Iwabuchi's forces were laying out an elaborate defense plan around Manila.
Streets were lined with razor-sharp barbed wires, trucks were overturned as barricades and machine guns placed on seemingly empty houses. Naval cannons were brought in from Japanese ships and placed in strategic places; and everywhere, mines awaited unwary soldiers. If Manila would be taken, the streets would be awash with Allied blood.
Bridges were blown off, as well as military installations, power, and water facilities. Manila stood still as a vengeful Japanese force waited for its final battle with the not-so-distant euphoric Allied army.
The Filipino and American guerrillas, sensing victory with the easy disposal of Japanese defenses they had encountered, reached the capital on February 3, 1945. But the Japanese defenders would not give them the city in a silver platter.
The Japanese soldiers fought with the savage ferocity of a wounded beast, displaying a kind of barbarity so alien to the Filipinos and Americans alike.
Civilians were mowed down, old men, women and children. The Japanese massacred them, shot them, bayoneted them, burned them and raped them. The Japanese rampage in Manila would be remembered in history as one notorious chapter of man's inhumanity to man.
Manila was destroyed in the ensuing battle. So fierce was the battle that not even the elegant giant stone buildings that distinguished Manila as one of the most beautiful colonial cities in Asia survived the holocaust.
A grim tally of 100,000 people perished. It was a devastated Manila that the Allied forces of the Filipinos and Americans retook that fateful February of 1945.
The Liberation of Panay
March 18, 1945
The re-conquest of Central Visayas by the Allied Forces, beginning with Panay Island on March 18, 1945 was motivated by their strategic value and concern of leaving their huge populations at the mercy of Japanese Occupation forces. The aim was to capture the Visayan waters' navigation routes, which would reduce the travel time of US supply ships navigating between Leyte, site of General Douglas MacArthur's return in October 1944, and Luzon, where the campaign of liberation by Filipino guerillas and US forces, was already in full swing.
The Allied Forces' retaking of Panay on 18th of March 1945, capped the liberation campaign begun three years earlier by the local guerillas. Practically the whole island was already a liberated zone, courtesy of the 6th Military District, (around 20,000-strong towards end of the war), under the command of Colonel Macario Peralta, Jr. In truth, from the early days of the Japanese occupation, much of Panay had been under the joint administration of Governor Tomas Confesor, who was Panay's governor during the Commonwealth era, and of the resistance fighters led by Col. Peralta.
In October 1944, Peralta received an order from General MacArthur to prepare Panay Island for the landing of US forces there on March 18, 1945. Preparation involved two parts - intensification of gathering of intelligence, particularly on changes of the enemy's movements and positions, which were crucial to the Allied landing plan; and the continued harassment of the enemy in order to disorient him and limit his movements. The 6th Military District carried out the order until the final phase of the struggle began in January 1945. From Lawa-an, Antique, the 6th MD moved its headquarters to Cabudian, Duenas in Iloilo Province to begin preparations for the last battle with the enemy.
The guerrillas' primary targets were the Tiring landing field, which had been garrisoned by some 250 Japanese soldiers, and the city proper of Iloilo itself, with more than 2,500 enemy troops scattered all over the city. A radius of obstacles, however, comprising of garrisons, pillboxes, breastworks, etc. - existed around the city. These were the challenges the guerrillas had to overcome before they could capture their targets.
Full-scale attack began in early February, with units of the 6th MD approaching from various directions, north, as well as from northwest of the beach, and from the north road. Engagements took place in sundry sites: sitios Jibaoan and Takas in barrio Mandurriao, Iloilo City and the towns the towns of Pavia Oton, Molo, San Miguel, La Paz, and Tigbauan, the last two with Japanese garrisons. Jaro, where the Japanese had erected garrisons in several places and buildings (at Barrio Balantang; at the Jaro Municipal building, at the Javelosa and Charito buildings) was the site of heavy fighting - also occurring along the Jaro River, in Barrio Buhang; Dungon Creek, etc.). Several thoroughfares (Jaro-Iloilo, Tigbauan-Oton, Jaro-Pavia, and Takas-Jaro roads) saw the guerrillas scoring against the enemy, thus obstructing flow of enemy reinforcements and supplies.
The sandy stretch from Dumangas in Iloilo to Capiz' northern area, was also guarded by the guerrillas, to prevent the enemy from attacking guerrilla positions in Jaro.
Fighting also took place in several places in Capiz- Culasi and Lantayan, Tinigban on Pooc Hill; and in Antique- in the capital of San Jose de Buenavista, where the enemy had a stronghold.
On Guimaras Island, 150 guerrillas assaulted the municipal building, which had been converted into Japanese barracks. Meanwhile, the garrison at Bagongon Point on Pan de Azucar Island, northeast of Iloilo, was captured by the guerillas on February 19.
The battle for Panay extended until the end of February with enemy casualties exceeding 700. The battle resumed around 7th of March, after Peralta's return from MacArthur's headquarters in Leyte. This time, the guerrillas had air support from US planes.
In the early morning of March 18, US naval forces arrived off the southern waters of Panay. Immediately, minesweeping operations were conducted, under the protective firing from destroyers, directed at the enemy positions on the island. Soon, troops of the 40th Division led by Major General Rapp Brush, of the United States' Eighth Army (under the command of General Eichelberger), landed on the beach of Tibauan, 22 kilometers to the west of Iloilo City. Instead of meeting the enemy, however, they received a rousing welcome by Filipinos, civilians and fighters alike, led by Col. Peralta and elements of the 6th Military District.
Meanwhile, with US ground forces advancing into Iloilo City, and the blocking operations of the 6th MD, the Japanese forces were forced to abandon their last stronghold and retreat to the hinterlands. Mop-up operations were later conducted on the rest of Panay, Guimaras and other islands.
On the 20th March, General Eichelberger and his contingent entered a city freed of enemy troops, but welcomed by crowds of cheering Filipinos. On 22 March 1945, General MacArthur officially declared Iloilo City liberated.
For more information, please see Running Man PH or the fb event page here.
For more events in Iloilo, do check the #zupiloilo calendar at the right side of the blog or with this link.
Thank you for treating us down memory lane. Reminding us to be grateful of what our forefathers did for our freedom.
ReplyDelete