Run/Walk For Life Randburg AM

More milestones achieved today. Congratulations to Lorrae for reaching 8000km...equivalent distance of 9 comrades!!! What we are able to achieve with the support of walking buddies and friends.

Whether you.want to walk or start a running.program, we can help you get there!!!

Celebration of monthly achievements and lifetime achievements. I love it when the smiles on faces speak volumes about how good it feels to achieve that goal you set for yourself.It is so important to set goals for yourself, whether it is a distance goal or a speed goal, or a goal to just pitch for every session this week, every goal achieved lays the foundation for the next and the next and soon you are feeling stronger fitter than you ever believed possible. Well done to those who achieved monthly goals of 50,70,80,100 and 115km in March. And a special congrate to Elsa for her lifetime 5000km distance award and Jacky's 7000km lifetime distance award. What great achievements!!!
So be BRAVE , set the GOAL make it the reason you get out of bed in the morning.

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Nobody likes thinking about this.

But it’s true.

One day, your knees won’t be as strong.
Your lungs won’t recover as fast.
Your back won’t carry weight like it used to.

And that day will come quietly.

Not dramatically.

Not with warning.

Just slowly.

That’s why this season of your life matters more than you think.

Right now, you can wake up early.
You can endure the assault trail.
You can push through when it gets steep.
You can laugh at the suffering.

Right now, you still can.

And it’s easy to postpone.
“Next month.”
“Next year.”
“When things calm down.”

But life rarely calms down.

It just moves forward.

There will come a time when you’ll look at photos of young hikers and think, “I used to do that.”

The question is — will you say it with pride?

Or regret?

The mountains will always be there.

But your season won’t.

So don’t wait for the perfect time.

Don’t wait until life is lighter.

Go while your legs are strong.
Go while your heart still craves it.
Go while you can still carry yourself up.

Because the real tragedy isn’t aging.

It’s wasting the years when you were capable.

Something to think about....

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Walk speed is the single most accessible longevity marker you can measure. In a review of 34,000 adults, faster walkers lived significantly longer. Every 0.1 m/s increase in walking speed reduced mortality risk by 12%. A slow walking speed often shows up years before chronic disease or cognitive decline.

The test: Mark 10 feet. Walk at your normal pace. Time it.
Goal: 1.0 meter/second or faster.

If you’re under that? Not a death sentence. It’s a signal to start training.
Walk daily, like you’re late for something important.

Well done to Sameshnie Sookram , Jenifer, and Kirsten Morgan who completed their first 10km this year after just 2 months of training on a new program. I am so proud of you and the consistency shown for each KM.

Rain or shine, we get the job done! We'll done to everyone who braved the storm and waited....it was worth it in the end.

“What did you learn?” A seemingly simple question asked of me by an ex-teacher of mine, after I had completed my first comrades. Most people congratulated me,, told me what an amazing achievement it was and basically stroked my ego with their comments. My students on the other hand, made sure that my ego never became too inflated, by questioning why it had taken me so long to run 90km.
So this question “what did I learn?” caused me to pause and contemplate, here was a person who was not interested in stroking my ego or deflating it out of ignorance or jealousy, instead he was the mentor determined that I embrace the lessons I had learned on the journey of 90km and use them as guides for life. Until that question I had never considered the lessons that were presented to me over the course of 6 months of training leading up to the event and then the lessons that were learned during the run itself. My answer then was that we could do anything we put our minds to. In hindsight the answer should have been “I got to know myself a little better”
In many ways any endurance sport is a miniature slice of life..You decide you want to participate in the event so you seek out a plan and like-minded individuals who will help you on the journey towards achieving this goal. This plan has certain milestones along the way that you have to meet for eg, complete a 21km, complete a marathon in the required time, do an ultra before the actual race. These milestones have to be achieved in order for you to be at the start of that race.
Along the way there are the inevitable roadblocks - a cold or injury that sets your training back a little, late nights and parties that result in you not pitching to a training session, running too slowly in your planned marathon such that you don't qualify and now you have to find another marathon to run in order to qualify.
Finally you find yourself at the start of the race you have trained so hard for and all the months of training have led up to this one day and it will either be a fantastic day or not, but at the end of the day only you will know whether you gave your best. No one can be blamed if the race didn't go well. This journey of 90km not only teaches you about yourself but it reveals to you what society can be when we are all on the same road. Everyone on the journey is kind, encouraging, no one considers themselves better than another, rich and poor successful or not we are one and the same. What a gift to experience that sense of compassion and friendship. It is almost as though we have stepped into an imaginary world, one so foreign to the world we come from.

This one day of 90km teaches you that we are all just souls on a journey to discover the beauty that we all are when we shed the masks we wear daily to fulfil the roles that define our lives as defined by societal expectations. When the masks are removed we discover that, we are all kind caring and compassionate human beings.
This little journey that you undertook has taught you so much about yourself - how you handled challenges and setbacks, how reliable you were, whether your word was gold and many other lessons which you then carry forward with you as you embrace life and its challenges.

In many ways, life is much like this - I believe that at a soul level we ask to come down here to learn about ourselves - this is so sweetly illustrated in the children's parable by Neale Donal Walsch called THE LITTLE SOUL AND THE SUN.

We come to this planet so that we can discover who we are and learn the lesson that we need to learn, and in the process of bringing the unconscious up to the light of the conscious we realize that we were never sent into a barren desert, we were provided with tools and everything we needed to help us navigate this journey of life as smoothly as possible, the real challenge is remembering that we are in control of the life we have chosen to experience.

A great start to the year. The challenge.. complete 100km for the month. Congratulations Lorrae for completing the 100km this month. To everyone else remember to plan for the unexpected storm that will thwart your goals. This is a new month let's kick that 100km to the curb for February.

23000km done and dusted. The equivalent of walking from Cape Town to Magadan in Rusia. What a journey and many stories that come with it. Congratulations Elsie Pearson you are a star and a great inspiration for many walkers out there.

Join us for an informative talk on 7th November at 6pm