More than three months before he faces Erik Morales in a rubber match, Pacquiao said yesterday that he is doing morning roadwork in General Santos City.

"I run at 7 in the morning," said Pacquiao, whose Nov. 18 match with Morales is expected to break the 350,000 pay-per-view buys posted during their rematch which Pacquiao won via a sensational tenth-round knockout early this year.

"Ako naman hindi ako lumolobo ng lampas 150 lbs (I don’t bloat to as much as 150 lbs," Pacquiao told a handful of scribes recently. "Oras na mag-umpisa na ako ng heavy training ay kusang bumababa ang timbang ko (Once I start heavy training, my weight goes down)."

While Pacquiao is making small steps in his preparation for the third Morales fight, the Mexican is already in the thick of things in a training center in Los Angeles with a team of experts tapped to help him get down to the super-featherweight limit of 130 lbs and avoid paying a hefty penalty to the Filipino boxing star.

Under the contract that Pacquiao will soon sign, Morales will have to cough up 0,000 for every pound in excess of 130 lbs.

Pacquiao is even given the go-signal to pull out of the fight and run away with the money without showing up at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas.

Pacquiao, who was paid million in the rematch and .750 million in the first bout (with Morales), is asking million from Top Rank, which reportedly is dangling .5 million and a handsome share of the PPV revenue.

Pacquiao, who turns 28 on Dec. 17, plans to report for training at the Wild Card in Hollywood in the middle of September.