We took the baton Home…
Friday, July 18, 2014I was never really a fan of waking up in the morning, Sleep and I have that twilight kinda love relationship. I am still not a morning person but race organizers do not care about this. They want us behind the start line at 7am.
The idea of Kaya fm 67km Relay for Mandela Day is to have 10 runners each running 6.7 kilometres and two people from a team run at once but they do not have to run at the same pace. This
is a corporate race so teams from different companies enter, I like this race because it gets people to be active which is the motivation idea behind this blog.
One factor I do not like about highly publicised races is the amount of people
who don’t really run that enter. I support people pushing themselves to get fit but not when I have
to stand behind a metre of people who are going to affect my pace.
The route was a constant uphill for the first three kilometres, I did not enjoy weaving my way through people for twenty minutes. As if that was not enough to make me start
walking, there was no coke. I think that the best coke in the world is the coke that they serve out at the races while I am running and the
sun is just burning me and I am sweating like I am in a sauna and the sweat is creeping into my eyes blinding me and I wipe the sweat off my face with my race tee and I flash the people around me
with my stretch marks and I reach out for that cup of coke and it
glides down my throat giving me brain freeze and also almost choking me at the
same time while quenching my thirst. But I don’t think I
have ever finished all the coke in the cup because I still have not
mastered the art of running and drinking at the same time.
This tale as told by Atlegang (IG: butatliruns)
In the Video below are thoughts about the race from members of the Braamfie Runners Crew.
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