14/08/2026
Ten years ago, our Race Director took his first step into race directing through the **Boystown Run of the CSWDโCagayan de Oro City LGU**โa meaningful community event organized for the benefit of the residents of Boystown, a residential care facility managed by the local government. It provides alternative parental care, protection, and rehabilitation for abandoned, neglected, or abused male minors and children in need of special support.
What started as a single race driven by service and a desire to create a safe and memorable running experience eventually became the beginning of a much bigger journey.
Over the years, every starting line became a classroom. Every route taught new lessons in safety, logistics, traffic management, timing, coordination, and dealing with thousands of runners. From setting up cones before sunrise, coordinating with marshals and authorities, managing race-day challenges, to finally seeing participants cross the finish lineโeach event helped shape the experience and discipline behind the race director.
A decade later, that passion has evolved into what is now **Cones & Timer**.
From that first Boystown Run, Cones & Timer has grown into a full-service race and event organizing team, having handled **almost 50 races across Cagayan de Oro City, Bukidnon, and Misamis Oriental**. These include community fun runs, school and university races, corporate events, advocacy runs, competitive road races, and large-scale running events involving hundreds and even thousands of participants.
But the journey has always been about more than counting races.
It is about the people behind every event. The runners who wake up before dawn. The volunteers and marshals who stand along the route. The sponsors and partners who believe in every project. The LGUs, traffic personnel, police, emergency responders, event crews, suppliers, and countless individuals who work together to make every starting line possible.
**Ten years. Almost 50 races. Thousands of runners. Countless kilometers. One continuing journey.**
From a humble advocacy run for the residents of Boystown to becoming **Cones & Timer**, the mission remains the same: to organize races that are safe, professionally managed, memorable, and meaningful.
And as we celebrate a decade of race directing, we look back with gratitudeโbut we also look forward with excitement.
**Because after 10 years, we are still learning, still improving, still runningโand there are many more starting lines ahead.**
**From Boystown Run to Cones & Timer โ 10 years of bringing races to life.**
