Hard work and consistency pays off....

What a year it has been, my 1st half Marathon of this year was a disaster, 3 hrs and 19 sec I finally completed Discherm, I knew then that my fitness was gone, what did I expect after taking a long year break🤔? I had a chat with Coach B and he suggested that I should not only focus on running but should compliment it with Strength and core conditioning training as well. Truth be told the strength training didn't come cheap and I had thousand reasons why I couldn't do it, the following day I woke up and my hubby said to me, Babez, if you really want to run comfortably like you say, then you need to go for strength training

After a month of running and strengthening training, I ran another 21km Delloite, My time improved 02:46, Then did OMTOM 02:42.. Most importantly after the race I was feeling great and no more major pains like before....

Then the winter months came unfortunately mine lasted 3 months🤦🏾‍♀🤦🏾‍♀.... Jun - Aug I did absolutely nothing.... No running and no strengthening, biggest mistake ever, once again I had to start all over again....for the next 2 months I knew I had to be disciplined and go a little extra mile if I still wanted to run Kaapsehoop.

I did exactly that, every weekend I did a LSR, used some of the races as practice and really pushed harder during my strength and core training...

2 Nov I was there among thousands that wanted to do PB, Well it wasn't an easy race, I was just happy that the weather was favorable. Along the route I met couple of JRAC runners, the strength I pulled from running with Annie and Shelz, was out of this world, with 10km to go Annie pushed harder and Shelz and I encouraged each other to the finish, the last 8km was all about Poles and and Cones we were counting 🤣🤣 Finally at 04:56 we landed at Mbombela and my net time was 04:51:12. It's all thanks to the JRAC family and the amazing training schedule that the club organise. It's truly important to try different styles of training.

All I can say is with discipline, commitment and consistency... Anything is possible....

Lastly, the support from my family has been my anchor in all this... 🙏🏾And I'm grateful to God for these legs 🏃🏾‍♀🏃🏾‍♀🙏🏾

I'm so happy with what I have achieved, it can only get better from here onwards....