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Happy Birthday to our September Burra Runners
1st Reggie Govender 3 Dawn Mackay 7 Mia Clendennen 10 Frieda Swart 11 Nicolle Williams (40th) 14 Ajay Rambarran 15 Arielle Coetzer 17 Steven Yartlett 23 Ella- Rose Gass, Ndumiso Ngcampala, Lydia Towill 27 Clinton D'Abbadie 28 Julie Vorster 29 Vaughn Lees 30 Denise...
read moreThe count down has started. Last day Wednesday 4 September for online entries for the Mineshaft 2019. Remember first 800 Runners receive a T-shirt. Saturday 7 September entries 10am -2pm and Sunday 8th September 4.30am to 6am
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Burra July Birthdays
Happy Birthday To all our Burra runners this month: Willie Bothma 1 Robin Archer 1 Stacey-Lea Pearce 2 Nic Viktor 3 Darrian Pearce 6 Jessica-Lee Pretorius 7 Grant Branders 9 Lucas Esterhuyse 15 Dawid Grobbelaar 16 Shelly van Bakel 21 Trudie Schutte 24 Jeff Ngcobo...
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Run for Love – Hoppy and Yvonne Hopkinson (Tuesday Who’s day)
Run for Love is 2016 Chinese love film, but this Burra couple literally run for love every week as a true story! The saying goes: “Couples that sweat together, stay together!” It must ring true as Hoppy and Yvonne Hopkinson met while running and have run together ever...
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April Birthdays
Happy birthday To all our fantastic members who are born in April! The twins deserve a special mention too! Melonie Du Preez 5th Brenda Grey 8th Vincent Van Wyk 10th Rodney Proud 10th Stephanie Wylie 12th Christopher Chendriah 22nd Allysia Gass 28th Jemima Gass 28th...
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Leadership, Car oil and running the Burra – Lucas Esterhuyse (Tuesday Who’s day)
I enjoy quotes and try to use them in the right context, not always successfully, but I found a few that I feel everyone who knows this fun-loving gentleman suits him well! Here goes: “Leadership has been defined as the ability to hide your panic from others.” Lao Tzu...
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The 1000 Marathon Man – Julian Karp (Tuesday Who’s Day)
I saw a cool quote this last week that said: “Don’t watch the clock, do what it does…” Our featured member this week does just that every single weekend where possible. He had a goal to run 1000 marathons and ultras before 65 years and it looks like he will achieve...
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The final piece of the puzzle (Tuesday who’s day)
It is nearly 5 am on any given Saturday morning. The air is fresh, and the sun, well depending on the time of year, it could still be dark. The chatter gets louder as more and more runners and walkers get ready for what the morning holds. It could be anything from 20...
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Parlauf Westville 2019 – Junior and senior success!!
What a great evening of fun, friends and a bit of healthy rivalry at this year's annual Parlauf in Westville on Friday! Westville AC were brilliant hosts as always and be sure never to miss out on this again. Paarlauf is not a very commonly used form of running, but...
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Birthdays In March
Ryan Grobbelaar 7th Thursday Craig Barclay 8th Friday Sanette Henderson 12th Tuesday Leslie Naidoo 14th Thursday Leigh Branders 18th Monday Stephen Humphreys 20th Wednesday Veloshnee Dhaver 21st Thursday Lynne Pienaar 22nd Friday Johan Rautenbach 22nd Friday Theresa...
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