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On Wednesday's we run and dedicate those runs to the all the women in the world. The other day I was dying on the streets trying to get to 7 km. I passed a woman doing a solo run and I thought to myself how brave is she. After all the reports I have been reading and hearing about women being attacked, harassed and raped during their runs. This really should not be the case though & it brought me back to the reason why I started this podcast series. It was for women's month & I wanted to engage with women from around the world on what issues they face. Initially these conversations were only available on YouTube. However, I have been in the process of moving all the podcast episodes to audio platforms and today we release...

EPISODE 2 FEATURING ALECHIA VAN WYK. 

Alechia, is a South African born Lecturer currently living in the UK. Passionate about Cyclo-cross, old school triathlon and somewhere along the selection, running. 

In this episode we discussed topics such as 

- Cyclo-cross, she detailed what this sport is all about. 

- Race to the stones, a 100 km trail race that happens in the UK. 

- Medical standards and interventions being developed on the male species.

This episode is available for your listening pleasure on 

- YouTube 

- Apple Podcasts

- Spotify

- Google Podcasts

You can follow her on instagram (@alechiavanwyk) 

Link: https://www.instagram.com/alechiavanwyk/?hl=en

#RunRevolution

Somebody once showed me a tweet stating that a Taurus has a playlist for every life situation. That tweet did not lie. I have a playlist for...

- Running 

- Swimming 

- Yoga 

- Studying

- Driving 

- Falling Asleep

• x THE WMN 2020 this was the official playlist for Women's month in 2020 curated by my Fave Dj Scottthegirl
  
• Yoga Practice of... I can't Breathe in support of the Black Lives Matter Movement 
  
• Swimming Session To... Appreciate Open Water this is music that reminds me of swimming in the Open water
  

Going forward the aim is to have a playlist curated by somebody from this community every month. For the month of April 2021 Chana-Lee Preston was kind enough to share some of her favourite music selections. 

2020 was the film that the producers of 2012 wanted their film to be. As I am typing this I am watching a documentary on Netflix called "PANDEMIC: How to prevent an outbreak". A thesis needs to be published about this year because WOW! this was an experience for the history books. 

However, with every bad there is some good that comes out of it. With this pandemic I am happy that it has changed the usual way of working. All that time spent in traffic in our past lives, I used it to run, practice yoga and sometimes some laps in the pool. Lets not talk about December though because this month, was for rest and reset. My body and needed this, being a full time employee and a part time honours student really sucked everything out of me. The Gag is... I am already thinking about what I am going to study next year. 

- YOU CANT STOP THE RUN -

When I received these shoes in the mail, I must admit I was internally jumping from wall to wall. Running shoes make me happy, so you can imagine the smile on my face when I opened my orange box with my Mango orange shoes.

On November 1 2020, Caster Semenya with Nike challenged runners all over the world. To run like they never have before #RunWithCaster that was the hashtag. Check it out on Instagram, mileage is still being clocked. As I write about them now, I have clocked around 70 km's in them and I am scared that I am going to clock 800 km in them soon.

The Nike Air Zoom Tempo Next% Flyknit are dubbed the training companion to the Nike Alphafly NEXT%. The idea is that you train as you would with the Tempo Next% and then unleash the Alpha Fly Next% on race day. 

The Tempo Next% comprises of several technologies such as

• ZoomX foam in the forefoot
• React foam in the heel
• Zoom Airpods under the forefoot
• FlyKnit Upper
• Offset lacing 
• Carbon composite plate

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Thoughts?

As mentioned above, I have clocked around 70 km in these shoes. I can say this. Whatever you know about running shoes, put that in the back of your mind and open yourself up to a new running experience. You can feel the technologies mentioned above even while standing still in these shoes. So my first run was not like my other runs, I really used it to get accustomed to these shoes. Before I went running in them I spent a few days walking around in them, at the mall and on the streets. I was breaking them in, this was needed because the upper is really a tight fit so I wanted to stretch out the upper. 

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Every time I go running in these shoes, I like them a little more. They make it easier to forefoot strike, This is what I told Abelang in the IG DM's. I also like these shoes because they are dripping in aesthetics, can run in these with shorts shorts or tights.

REMEMBER

RUN... BUT MAKE IT FASHION. 

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The Nike Air Zoom Tempo Next% FK is available on Nike.com & other retailers for a RRP of R3 599.95 (Get it in the white colourway with the blue/pink accents, I am obsessed!!!!!!)

#RunRevolution