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Slipping in Tatay's shoes

  A marathoner pays tribute to an aging family member From the trail-clad athletes spread at The Farm grounds, a distinctive figure is doing stretches more heartfully than any younger runner preheating for the strenuous and notoriously dizzying 5 and 10-kilometer trails of the Alicia Panoramic Park (TAPP). For the unfamiliar, Tatay Querubin Abella, 72, looked like a spent senior citizen in assertion of his previous Quixotic adventures in the race circles of Bohol. Medium built but thin by runners standards, Abella has nothing spectacularly outstanding in his physique, especially for distance runners, except for his age and his track and trail battered running shoes. AFTER A MILE OF HARD TERRAIN. Tatay Rubin, Querubin Abella, 72, of Candelaria Dagohoy was still up and running past younger runners, despite his poor equipment to get him through the treacherous 12 kilometers of the Alicia Panoramic Park (TAPP) Trail Run Challenge. (RAHC/PIA7 Bohol) For those in the running circles...