In 2009, RMN Network’s Southern Mindanao Cluster led by Cluster In-Charge & RMN DXDC Davao Station Manager Dodong Solis waged what is now a highly-popularized cycling endurance challenge & competition from the tracks of Davao City on to the roads of General Santos, then trekking thru the challenging terrains of Koronadal all the way to the plains of Cotabato and then finding its way back home to the regional center of Region XI, the City of Davao.

The project? RMN RACE for PEACE / 1^st TOUR OF MINDANAO cycling tournament participated in by close to a hundred of the best cycling riders in the island of Mindanao.

This innovative road challenge was a cut above the rest: indeed this was so because from the very beginning, RMN organizers conceived of the Race for Peace Series not just as a cycling extravaganza but more a social advocacy campaign whose center is Mindanao’s eternal quest for elusive peace.

Its battlecry then – as it has and will always be – was ably captured in the unchanging motto ‘One Track, One Dream, One Vision!’.

That highly-successful four-city running spectacle was replicated when its much-anticipated sequel commenced via the launching of Leg 1 of this year’s forthcoming 2^nd GRAND TOUR of MINDANAO set to unfurl in September 2010.

The race was dubbed the 1^st TOUR DE SARANGANI held across the coastal plains of scenic Sarangani Province from Maitum to Glan, Saragani where the qualifiers managed to land a sure berth in the soon-to-be held 2^nd GRAND TOUR of MINDANAO about eight months from today.

And on January 30, 2010 be there when the action unfolds during the formal opening of the one-day running race from the City of Koronadal, the incoming regional center of Region 12 passing thru the various locales & municipalities of the Province of South Cotabato then back home for a chance to represent South Cotabato’s colors in the second inning of the RACE FOR PEACE!