BOKSBURG ATHLETIC CLUB

“SNIPPETS NO. 22 –WEEK 28 (Thursday, July 11, 2013 – Wednesday, July 17, 2013)

Do you have any stories, news, results etc that you would like to share with the

rest of the club? If so, please fax or email them to the club.

NEWS, ROAD, TRACK AND FIELD, MULTI-SPORT, CROSS COUNTRY,

SOCIAL, STORIES/ARTICLES ETC), and GENERAL.

WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBER:

Jaundre Van Schalkwyk

CONGRATULATIONS TO:

Tracy Booyens and Euan McNeil on their recent engagement.

AVAILABLE IN THE OFFICE

2013 CGA Handbook (White cover) at R5.00 per handbook (with

all the cross country and road information)

and 2012/2013 Track and Field Fixtures and Rules Booklet (White

Cover) at R10.00.

NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS

UPCOMING SOCIAL UPCOMING SOCIAL UPCOMING SOCIAL UPCOMING SOCIAL

ROADROADROADROAD

2013 UPCOMING RACES

Please check for race flyers and more information, on the following website :

www.raceresults.co.za

July

Sat 13 Springbok Vasbyt 25/10/5km 07:30 Voortrekker Monument

Sat 13 Linksfield Ridge 5/10km Eco Train (Walk or Run) Entrance Fee R75.00

Register Now : Annette 011 453 9408 or socialdevelopment@standrews.co.za

Sun 14 Northgate 10km 07:30 Northgate Shopping Cen.

Sun 14 KayaFM Corporate Relay 67km ??? Waterfall Estate Polo Fields

7 (Sportsvento 086 0460 906)

Sat 20 Winter Road Race 10km/5km 07:00 Garsfontein Primary School

Sun 21 Breakthru 15/5km 08:00 New Venue – Waterfall

Estate

Sat 27 Keystone Milling Rustenburg Mountain Race

5/10/25km 07:00 Kloof Holiday Resort

(Flyer in the office).

Sun 28 702 Walk The Talk 30/15/8/5km Various Marks Park

Sun 28 Lante Investement 15/6km 07:00 Lonehill Shopping Centre

(info@lantewalk.co.za; Emmanuel Luthuli 081 494 3255; James/Gina 074 111 7153) Not

sure if this race is taking place.

August

Sat 03 Skukuza 21km 08:30 Skukuza

Sun 04 Roy Brown Memorial 21/10km 08:00 Golden Reef

Sat 10 Wierie Road Race 21/10/5km 06:30 Centurion Mall

Sun 11 Old Eds 21/10km 08:00 Old Eds

Sun 18 Wits Alumni 21/10/5km 13:00 Wits University

Sat 24 Fort to Fort 12 Hour (More information contact Poy Blignaut 082 855 0561)

Sun 25 Wanderers 21/10/05km 07:00 Wanderers, Illovo

Sat 31 SPAR Ladies Road Race 10km T.B.A. Supersport Park,

Centurion, Pretoria

September

Sun 01 Soweto Cabal 21/10km 06:00 President High Ridge

Sun 15 Fred Morrison 21/10km 07:00 Germiston Stadium

Sat 21 Irene 21/10/5km 06:00 Irene Village Mall

Sun 22 Rockies 21/10km 07:00 Jhb Zoo

Sun 22 Sportsmans Pre-Run 21/10km 06:00 East Rand Value Mall

Tues 24 Sportsmans 21/10/5km 06:00 East Rand Value Mall

Sun 29 City To City 50km 06:30 Gautrain Station, West

Street, Centurion.

(Flyer in the office) (Pretoria – Johannesburg).

October

Sat 05 National Business Challenge Relay – Pretoria

Sun 06 Komatsu 21/10/5km 06:30 Barnard Stadium, Kempton

Sun 13 Spar Ladies 10/5km T.B.A. T.B.A.

Sun 20 Run Jozi 10km 08:00 Jhb CBD

Sun 27 Diepkloof 21/10/5km 07:00 UJ Soweto Campus

Sun 27 Panorama 21/10/5km 06:00 Panorama

November

Sat 02 Kaapsehoop 3 in 1 42/21/10km 05:30 Check entry form.

Sun 03 Soweto Marathon 42km 06:00 Nasrec

Wed 06 Rowlin Nite Race 15/10/5km 19:00 Benoni Northerns

Sat 09 Liquifruit Irene 21/10/5km 06:00 Irene Agri. Centre

Sun 24 Tough One 32/5km 06:00 Old Parks

December

Sun 01 ADT 21/10km

Sat 07 Great Run 10/6km 07:00 Weskoppies Hospital,

Sun 08 Tsakane

Sun 15 Kwa Thema 21/10km

Sun 22 Daveyton 10/5km

January 2014

Sun 05 Kudus 15km

Sun 12 Dischem 21/5km

Sun 19 Bobbies 25/10km

Sun 26 Johnson Crane 42/21km

GAZEBO / UMBRELLAS AT RACES

Please LOOK for the Boksburg Gazebo and/or umbrellas at races. The Gazebo is a

blue/gray colour and has the Boksburg Athletic Club Logo on the top. Umbrellas are

Royal Blue and White panels

Races cancelled as per Race Results Website:

Foskor 10/21km scheduled or 27 July in Phalaborwa

R.A.C. Training Runs

If you are looking for additional training runs R.A.C. (Rand Athletic Club) are hosting the

following runs. All their runs except for the Comrades Looooooong Training Run (60km) are

classed as Café Runs (which means bring money and buy drinks along the route). All runs

start and finish at Old Parktonians.

July

Sunday 14 Northcliff Route 28km 07:00

Sunday 21 Wilds Route 26km 07:00

Sunday 28 Sandton Route 28km 07:00

August

Sunday 04 Bryanston Route 26km 07:00

Sunday 11 Tara Route 28km 07:00

Sunday 18 Melville Route 25km 07:00

Sunday 25 Wilds Route 26km 07:00

September

Sunday 01 Sandton Route 28km 06:00

Sunday 08 Northcliff Route 28km 06:00

Sunday 15 Wilds Route 26km 06:00

Sunday 22 Bryanston Route 26km 06:00

Sunday 29 Melville Route 25km 06:00

BOKSBURG ATHLETIC CLUB “AMILA” BLITZ

RESULTS – JULY 10, 2013

2KM 1. Chicumba Zacarais (BOKS) 07:32; 2 Rocco Gnudi (MAD) 08:11; 3 Keryn Venter (MAD) 08:33; 4

Danelle Grove (NC) 08:54; 5 Anje JV Vuuren (NC) 09:11; 6 Mariska Grove (NC) 09:27; 7 Luca Gnudi

(MAD) 10:07; 8 Eugene Els (NC) 10:43; 9 Lejeanne Marais (MAD) 10:49; 10 Charne Els (NC) 11:55; 11

Kyle van Toner (NC) 12:08; 12 Carl Strydom (NC) 13:16; 13 Keegan Venter (NC) 22:10; 14 Tracy Jordaan

(NC) 22:10; 15 Kaylee Jordaan (NC) 22:10; 16 Caitlin Jordaan (NC) 22:10; 17 Ashton Litten (NC) 22:10;

18 Vincent De Reuck (BOKS) 22:10.

4KM 1. Wynand Strydom (BOKS) 14:32; 2 Lauren Dance (MAD) 14:48; 3 Niall Hogan(MAD) 16:17; 4 Eugene

v.d. Westhuizen (NC) 16:34; 5 A.N. Other 16:46; 6 Justin Badenhorst (BOKS/Oost) 17:26; 7 Gregg Peebles

(BOKS) 17:29; 8 Aidan Parsons (BOKS) 17:48; 9 Keith Parsons (BOKS) 17:48; 10 Mosongo Mokoatsi

(BenHarr) 17:55; 11 Jannie Heath (BOKS) 18:23; 12 Donovan Stevens (NC) 18:54; 13 Shelley van der

Spuy (BOKS) 19:00; 14 Taryn Retief (BOKS) 19:03; 15 A.N. Other 19:03; 16 Johan Els (BOKS) 20:12; 17

Sean Stevens (NC) 20:22; 18 Carla Smith (NC) 20:34; 19 Shaun Jordaan (BOKS) 22:30; 20 Mientjie Ferrie

(MAD) 24:21; 21 Joe McClure (SP) 26:10; 22 Andrew Tesselaar (NC) 26:10; 23 A.N.Other 26:46; 24 Gavin

Kingston (SP) 29:11; 25 Dirk Jansen (BOKS) 29:11.

8KM 1. Dieter Muller (BOKS) 30:21; 2 Rudolf Oberholzer (BOKS) 31:24; 3 Armand Bosman (Gallopers) 31:24;

4 Mark Humphreys (BOKS) 34:12; 5 Bryce Hennessy (MAD) 37:21; 6 Greg Pienaar (NC) 39:39.

No report.

No report this week.

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CROSS COUNTRY

CGA CROSS COUNTRY LEAGUE FIXTURES FOR 2013

League No. 6 Protea Guineas Westonaria Sports Complex 13 July

League No. 7 Take It Easy AC Thokoza Park 27 July

League No. 8 Alberton AC Alberton Dam 03 August

CGA Champs Boksburg Stadium 17 August

CGA Open Club Challenge T.B.A. 31 August

SA CHAMPS POTCHEFSTROOM 14 September

Cross Country results have been emailed separately in an excel format.

NB Selection Criteria : An athlete must run any 4 out of 8 league events plus CGA

Championships to be considered for selection to represent CGA at SA Championships.

Doctor’s notes and different reasons for not meeting the criteria will NOT be considered

due to numerous problems experienced. Athletes who may have been representing the

Country during the season will be considered, but they have a responsibility to inform the

Cross Country Commission about their international involvement. Selector’s discretion will

apply in dealing with merits of each athlete’s case.

Boksburg Athletic Club – hosting CGA Cross Country Champs –

Saturday, August 17, 2013

We will be hosting the CGA Cross Country Champs and we need help with regards

setting up the course, marking the course, marshalling and people manning the water

point at the finish, etc etc. Please let me know if you are in a position to assist us.

The first event of the day starts at 09:00 and the last event of the day starts at

16:00.

Information received from CGA on Thursday, July 11, 2013.

Please note that the next Cross Country league 6 event will be held on 13 July 2013 at Westonaria Sports

Complex in Westonaria. The venue is the same as the 2010 CGA Cross Country Champs.

DIRECTIONS TO WESTONARIA SPORT COMPLEX

N12 TOWARDS POTCHEFSTROOM TURN RIGHT AT THE FOUR

WAY INTERSECTION (VEREENENGING, RANDFONTEIN, N12

INTERSECTION), IMMEDIATE LEFT ONTO NEPTUNE ROAD

STRAIGHT PASS STOP, PASS WESTONARIA MUNICIPALITY

BUILDING, UNTIL TRAFFIC CIRCLE, AT THE CIRCLE KEEP RIGHT

AND DRIVE STRAIGHT UNTIL THE STOP SIGN AND TURN LEFT

THERE, AND DRIVE STRAIGHT UNTIL THE OTHER STOP SIGN

AND TURN LEFT INTO BOTHA STREET AND DRIVING ON THE

BOTHA STREET, YOU’LL SEE THE STADIUM ON YOUR LEFT.

“T H E F I N I S H L I N E”

The “Finish Line” Pub is open every Wednesday evening after time trials,

from 18:30 until late. To those new members that do not know where the

“Finish Line” is situated, please phone Linda in the office.

The weekly Snowball draw takes place every Wednesday in the Pub as well,

and members have to be present to claim the prize which stands at quite a

large sum of money now.

COMRADES DINNER DANCE – SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2013. ERPM GOLF

CLUB. R120.00 PER PERSON. (Please see email sent out on 19 June,

2013 for more information).

BINGO – FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 2013. A fun filled evening, but we do

need prizes, so please guys donate some prizes to the club. All members,

family members and friends most welcome to attend.

TOMMY MALONE GOLF DAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2013. More

information with regards the Golf Day will be sent out shortly.

SOCIAL

SOCIAL RUNNING (by Joe Henderson, 1974) (Cont.)

If it weren’t for these sessions, I might have gone on alternately babying my wound, feeling sorry for myself for not being able to run like the other guys, or – worst of all – wearing my scar as a badge of courage and an excuse never to make courageous efforts again. ……………

The group shook those feelings out of me. When we were running and talking, there wasn’t time to dwell on my foot the way I did when I was alone. Alone, I felt every step. The first time out with the group, I sometimes forgot the foot for 10 or 20 steps, then a hundred or 200. And finally I wasn’t thinking of it at all. I was too busy talking to notice the foot, and it was getting well faster without being watched.

These runs get us outside ourselves, taking our minds off of every single step. And that’s good. What’s not so good is that we get so busy talking I don’t watch where we’re going.

This is my home ground. I’ve been running these country hills for better than 10 years now. So the

others let me set the routes. I have an advantage there. I like to take these runs slowly. The others should go slowly, too, but are new here and more eager in this game than I am. They either have to stay with me or run around in circles at each corner shouting back, “Where the hell do we go now?”

But I get to talking and miss turns, or add a mile here or cut off one there because mileage doesn’t mean that much to me, or seek out an extra hill on a whim because the hills don’t cause me much trouble after all these years.

Today is hot. It was hot when we started, hot and smoggy, and it’s getting worse as we go. The temperature is climbing to the 90s, and the air looks and smells like vaporized sewage. The others are losing patience with my guidance. One of those extra hills had done in Scott. When last seen, he was standing at the base of the hill with his hands on his hips, looking up at it and shaking his head.

“Let’s get cooled off here,” I’d said, pointing to a man hosing down his lawn. Joan had run down the graveled slope first, slipped and sprained her wrist. She is still running.

“How about a detour?” I’d suggested. “It’ll only add a couple of miles.” Ray and Joan, and of course tireless George, were all for it. We’d just had a water stop. Vic’s gaze was vacant. He’d never gone this far this fast. He gave an “it-can’t-get-much-worse” nod. Young John, a five-foot 100-pounder running sneakers, looked bewildered by this whole affair. He figured he had no choice but to go along.

The next series of hills had been on a dusty path that lay exposed to the sun. George had scampered up each of the hills like a frightened llama, then waited with a smug grin at the top. Twice I’d made the mistake of saying, “This is the last hill,” and had been wrong.

Ray had said. “If you say that one more time, you’re going to get a size 10 Tiger Boston stuffed down your throat.” Now we are lost. Well, not really lost but we’re heading west when we should be going east. I know how to get back, but it will add another two miles. Two more miles without water, added to the six since the last drink, makes for testy runners. I think it’s time to be quiet. After running in rare silence for several miles, the group does something rarer yet. It splits in two after an argument over which is the shortest way home and which will have water earliest. When fatigue and thirst set in, it’s everyone for himself. Yet it’s somehow comforting to have someone to complain with. We’re finally back where we started, and we’re already laughing and joking about the run, making it sound worse than it was and saying, “See you next week.” Two sets of opposites put the most strain on the group’s integrity. Feeling too good and feeling too bad during the runs themselves. And reaching goals or not reaching them in the races that follow. People who can’t take the Saturday pace drop out. For some, it’s too slow, for some it’s too fast. But the result is the same. More of them drop out because of goals, because goals are stopping places whether you satisfy them or are frustrated by them. This run I’ve talked about came at a crucial time for our group because of the goals involved. The long runs were meant to prepare these runners for the goals. For the schoolboys, George and John, it was the cross-country season. For the rest of us – Joan, Ray, Vic, Scott and me – it was the marathon.

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I was interested in seeing how we made out with our goals – whether our Saturday long runs had put us any closer to them. But I was more concerned about what would happen to the group once the goals were out of the way – one way or other. George turned out to be the best cross-country runner on his high school team and one of the fastest in the city. Last year, he says, he was going “two or three hours a day, but only at 10 or 12 minutes a mile.” The group had cut down his distance and picked up his pace, with good results. John isn’t as fragile as he looks in his cut-offs and oversized sneakers. Largely because of his regular long runs, he’s one of the top junior high runners in the area. And he’ll keep getting better. Joan was worried before the marathon. She’d caught cold. “How do you run a race with a cold?” she asked me. I gave her advice without even realizing until later that she’s a doctor. Cold or not, she was the first woman to finish this race. She ran her best time of 3:17. Ray hasn’t been running long enough to know that a marathoner can’t do three hours on six month’s preparation. So he almost did it. He ran 3:01 and some odd seconds, and was a little disappointed. “I’d rather have done 3:12 than come this close,” he said. He’s learning. In January, Vic had said, “I’ll never run in competition.” He was talked into trying a Runner’s World Fun-Run, and has been in competition almost every weekend since. He smiled for 26 miles straight in his marathon and leaped and whooped as he finished. “This was easier than my practice runs,” he shouted. I got through the marathon. I had to walk the last mile, but I made it. I have the group to thank for that. Without the Saturday runs, I would still have been nursing my wounds. Scott didn’t try the marathon. Without the group run that made him face up to his condition, he might have gone in over his head. Goals met, goals accomplished, or goals thwarted. I wondered how the next week’s long run would go. I knew I’d be there, because my only real goal is to keep going. But I wondered how the group would manage to start up again after reaching a stopping place. Saturday morning, nine o’clock. Seven show up. George, and six of us from the marathon. We have something lasting here.

Good Morning,

St Andrews School for Girls are hosting a trail run on the 13 July, starting at 7.30. We would like to invite

your members to come and join us. There is an option to either walk or run. Walkers can start anytime

between 8.00 and 10.00. The route follows Linksfield ridge and is really beautiful.

Register Now : Annette 011 453 9408 or socialdevelopment@standrews.co.za

Subject: Cancellation of St Michael's Spar 13 July 2013

- It is with regret to announce that the St Michaels Spar 10 km Race scheduled for Saturday, 13

July 2013 in Orkney, NW has been cancelled.

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MESSAGE FROM MODERN ATHLETE

Dear Linda,

Thank you for updating the club details. As I mentioned previously, we would like to offer your running club members a free digital subscription to Modern Athlete until December of this year.

Please forward this mail to them and ask them to click here and complete their details. We will then sign them up for the next issue.

My thanks

Modern Athlete E-mail: lauren@modernathlete.co.za Telephone: 011 4541542

http://www.modernathlete.co.za/

For the uneducated like me, place your mouse on the word here, right click on the mouse and select open hyperlink. That will take you to the site to complete your details.

Flyer attached to Snippets.

Hi there,

Please could you distribute this race flyer to your club members, friends and family.

Many people missed out on the first COLOUR RUN because entries were sold out, so due to popular

demand, we will be hosting another COLOUR RUN event to raise funds for the St Vincent School for the

Deaf, on Saturday 3rd

August.

The COLOUR RUN is something completely unique – it’s so much more than just a run, and it’s for a great

cause! ☺

Club tents will be welcome, by prior arrangement.

Thanks a million,

Meg

082 770-0854

colourfulruns@gmail.com

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Clubs Banking Details:

Name of Account : Boksburg Athletic Club Bank : Nedbank

Branch : Sunward Place Branch Code : 00190442

Account No. : 1904 024 998 Type of Acc. : Cheque

Please email or fax EFT/Deposit Slip to 011 917-4605 or 086 618 4488.

Reference to be used : Surname, Initial and what the payment is for (e.g Vogel L -CD)

SOME CAPTION HUMOUR FOR THE DAY

It is advisable to phone the office before coming through, as I may be out, on Club business.

Tel: 011 917 3721 Fax: 011 917-4605; 086 618 4488 Email : boksac@iburst.co.za

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