Last March 14, one hundred fifty Star Magic artists plus students from various colleges, youth from various organizations and ABS-CBN Boto Mo, I-Patrol Mo: Ako Ang Simula volunteers headed their way to Venice Piaza Taguig to voluntarily part of a history. A total of four hundred attendees participated making the Star Magic run a success!

As early as 4am, celebrities started to arrive and warmed up for the run. Opening the program are hosts Drei Felix and Pokwang while Elite Multi-Sports Resources Miguel Lopez lead the warm-up exercises. Star Magic’s main man Piolo Pascual then talk about the run’s cause. All participants were then gathered in the starting line just before Star Magic head Johnny Manahan started the gun signal.

After the participants finished their routes, all smiles were seen in everyone’s faces and felt good after completing the run Megaworld Corporation’s Tefel Pesigan and Timex Rishi Mirani and Avinash Uttamchandani awarded the celebrity winners for 3k male category. Star Magic Run top finishers were Jon Avila and Robi Domingo as third and second place respectively. Gigger Boy AJ Perez was 3k male top winner. Two former PBB housemates Bea Saw and Gee-ann Abrahan were runners up while Star Magic 16 Heidi Riego was awarded first place. Actor-swimmer Enchong Dee was named Powerade Star Magic Run Champion Power Racer for Men’s 5k Category while Nico Antonio finished the race as second and Carlos Agassi finished as third. Powerade Sports Drink’s Teejae Sonza and Roki Ferrer went up on stage to award the Women’s 5K category. Tri-athlete actress Maricar Reyes as the Powerade Star Magic Run Champion Racer while Gem Ramos (2nd) and Cheska Ortega (3rd) as runners up. Special award was awarded to newcomers Lance Christopher and Janeena Chan as Human Star Magic Run Runners of the Day.

In the non-celebrity category, 3K category male winners, were Jonathan Galo (1st), Mark Von Grabowski (2nd) and Paul Balatbat (3rd) for the male division while 3k category female winners were Genevieve dela Peña (1st), Elaine Yap (2nd) and Hatima Marcampo (3rd) for the female division respectively. On the other hand, 5k men’s division winners were Jun Martinez (1st), Carlo Pastelero (2nd) and Larry Medenilla (3rd) for the Men’s Division and Luz Siguion-Reyna (1st), Shirley Tio (2nd) and Rina Samson (3rd) for the Women’s Division.

Also joining the runners were Gretchen Barretto, Isabelle Daza, Phoemela Barranda Cristine Reyes, Roselle Monteverde, Regal matriarch Lily Monteverde, ABS-CBN executives Rondel Lindayag, Ronald Arguelles and Deo Endrinal.

Star Magic run was made possible through the help of Keren Pascual and support from Megaworld Corporation, Powerade Sports Drink, Viva Mineralized Water, Timex Ironman, Human and Segafredo Zanetti.

All the participants in first Star Magic run went out of their way not to compete but to actively be part of a cause. Star Magic believes that the enlightened youth can make a difference in the elections and that Youth Vote can make a difference. Truly, Star Magic continues….