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An e-mail newsletter from Agapé Athletics Club

Editor: Marieta Bortoli 082 466 7031 12 November 2018 .za

E-mail: marietabortoli@

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- Next league race – Tom Jenkins – 17 November

- Agapé AGM – 17 November

Editorial

This coming Saturday is the last league race for the year. Please come and run/walk as we need all the point we can earn. Please remember to fill out your entry slip in full; i.e. name, surname, age, gender and province (AGN).

It is also our AGM after the race. Please remember to confirm your attendance no later than 15 November to either myself or Marilett. Our e-mail addresses/telephone numbers are at the end of the newsletter.

I am also still waiting for nominations from members. We need some new blood on the executive and should you wish to join us in managing the club next year please forward your name to me. So far not one nomination has been received. Some of the vacancies are treasurer, intercessor, club captain, race organizer.

If you have entered for the Skukuza ½ marathon and you cannot attend, please refer to in the “mailbox” as one of our social members are in need of two numbers.

Notice Board Additions

◊ Skosana Road Race

Attachments

□ AGM notice

Birthday Greetings

May God look down and bless you now when your birthday’s here and keep you in His loving care each day throughout the year, and may He grant you happiness in everything you do – today, tomorrow, always, every day your whole life through!

|James Kruger 17 November |Kevin Walsh 18 November |

|Petro Pieterse 20 November |Christa Mouton 25 November |

Personalia

Welcome new and former members

Congratulations

Congratulations to the following members:

Thank you’s

In the mailbox

Skukuza ½ marathon

Ek wil hoor of iemand dalk reeds weet van 2 x 2019 Skukuza nommers wat hulle wil verkwansel?

Groete

Aletha van den Bergh

072 804 6277

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Two Oceans 2019

|Final Entry Dates |

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|Qualifying and seeding |

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|For your convenience, Web tickets accept the below payments: |

|Cash (at any Pick n Pay store) |

|Debit card |

|Credit card |

|RCS credit card (pay off over 6 months or 23 months) |

|Smart shopper points (transfer points to credit at any Pick n Pay store with a Smart Shopper machine) |

|PnP gift card |

|Masterpass  - Download the app here or here. |

|Need more info? Go to . |

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|Payment end dates |

|This depends on whether you’re doing the OMTOM 2019 Ultra or Half, and whether or not you have a charity entry. Ultra-entries are allocated on a first come, |

|first served basis. Pay when you enter or as soon as possible thereafter to avoid losing out. |

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|All Half entries go into a draw, due to the high demand for spots. Successful applicants will receive email confirmation and a prompt to process payment. |

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|Charity entries open on 3 December 2018 and are guaranteed. |

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|Timing |

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|Your OMTOM 2019 entry fee includes your new temporary timing chip to bring you to the finish line right on time. |

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General

Clothing available:

Buffs @ R100

Ladies skirts @ R200

Second skins @ R220

Age tags @ R30

Please contact Marietjie if you wish to purchase some of the items:

Cell: 072 541 7268 E-mail: ventermarix9@

The items will also be available at races, please visit our gazebo

Race reports/Upcoming race information

Race Results

League results

Training/Health snippets

Is Your Injury Caused by Pace or Distance?

You’ve probably heard that many running injuries stem from “training errors,” or increasing mileage or intensity too quickly. Is it possible to fine-tune that admittedly broad diagnosis? Is it possible to categorize running injuries by whether distance or speed is the more likely culprit?

Danish researchers think so. Writing in the International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy, they analyzed 2,002 running-related injuries described in other studies. Their goal, using clinical and biomechanical information on the injuries, was to look for underlying commonalities in the training of the people who had the injuries.

For about half of the injuries, the researchers found no such commonalities. Among these were medial tibial stress syndrome (AKA shin splints), and hamstring, hip adductor, and iliopsoas injuries.

For the remaining half, however, the researchers felt confident in classifying the injury as related to training volume or training intensity.

According to the researchers, the common knee injuries of patellofemoral pain syndrome (AKA runner’s knee), iliotibial band syndrome, and patellar tendinopathy are related to training volume, not intensity.

In contrast, the common lower-leg injuries of plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendinitis, and calf strains are related to training intensity, not volume, the researchers say. As the researchers note, these injuries are more common in competitive runners who do a higher percentage of their mileage at a fast pace than they are in recreational runners. The faster running, such as 400-metre repeats on the track, places greater strain on the tissues of the feet and lower legs than does easy running.

Do these categorizations matter beyond a well-that’s-interesting conclusion? Potentially. After all, when many runners ramp up their training, such as when pointing toward a marathon, they increase mileage and intensity simultaneously. This study suggests that if you have knee problems while doing so, you may have upped your mileage too quickly. Conversely, if your knees are fine but your calf, Achilles or plantar fascia start hurting, your body may be okay with your mileage increase, but isn’t yet ready to handle the increased intensity.

Your thought for the week

Don’t use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved!

Your smile for the week

An elderly gentleman...

had serious hearing problems for a number of years. He went to the doctor and the doctor was able to have him fitted for a set of hearing aids that allowed the gentleman to hear 100%

The elderly gentleman went back in a month to the doctor and the doctor said, "Your hearing is perfect. Your family must be really pleased that you can hear again."

The gentleman replied, "Oh, I haven't told my family yet.

I just sit around and listen to the conversations. I've changed my will three times!"

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An elderly couple had dinner at another couple's house, and after eating, the wives left the table and went into the kitchen.

The two gentlemen were talking, and one said, "Last night we went out to a new restaurant and it was really great. I would recommend it very highly."

The other man said, "What is the name of the restaurant?"

The first man thought and thought and finally said, "What is the name of that flower you give to someone you love? You know... the one that's red and has thorns." "Do you mean a rose?"

"Yes, that's the one," replied the man. He then turned towards the kitchen and yelled, "Rose, what's the name of that restaurant we went to last night?"

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Hospital regulations require a wheel chair for patients being discharged.  However, while working as a student nurse, I found one elderly gentleman already dressed and sitting on the bed with a suitcase at his feet, who insisted he didn't need my help to leave the hospital.

After a chat about rules being rules, he reluctantly let me wheel him to the elevator.

On the way down, I asked him if his wife was meeting him.

"I don't know," he said. "She's still upstairs in the bathroom changing out of her hospital gown."

Something to ponder over / something spiritual

Finding “Hope" In Difficult Times - Even in the Darkest Moments

Hope means, "to desire something with confident expectation of its fulfilment." The state of Hopelessness has been aptly described as a type of "Hell on Earth," filled with endless despondency and despair.

Today, more and more people are finding themselves alone and depressed, and few of us have not at one time, or another felt the sting of despondency and despair.

But Good news! Help is available, not the kind the world has, wherein it wishes for the best. It is one thing to wish, and quite another to have faith based on the promises of God.

God is Our Source

Paul wrote that when you place your trust in God, He will fill you with peace, joy, and assurance, (Rom 15:13).

Throughout the Bible, God proves His faithfulness to His people by leading them safely through or delivering them from all their predicaments and troubles. He will never leave or forsake His people; His plans are to prosper, not to harm them (Jer 29:11).

People and things will always let us down. In Psa 33:17, the horse, often used as a symbol of power, is declared a vain hope for deliverance; despite all its great strength, it cannot save. In Jer 17:5 God sternly warns against placing our dependency on man and calls it a curse.

God wants us to trust in Him. Psa 147:11 tells us that He is delighted when we put our trust in Him, and in Heb 10:23 we are told to rely on Him for He who promised it is faithful. 

Finding Help

To reap the benefits of the Christian life and to have protection, guidance, freedom from depression, and advice from the Holy Spirit one must first be born again and become a Child of God.

The born-again Child of God has the unique privilege of talking to and hearing from God, but this, the greatest resource available, is often neglected.

Christians should always pray! Even in the darkest moments when you don't feel His presence and think you will never smile again, pray anyway because He is there. He is listening and is an "ever-present help in time of trouble," (Psa 46:1).

"He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us," (2 Cor 1:10).

When we place our faith in God and the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, we then trust Him to take us to Heaven. If we can trust Him with our eternity, surely, we can trust Him for our earthly/daily cares.

Jesus said that as God clothes the grass of the field, so will He clothe us even more. He tells us not to worry about what we shall eat or drink or how we will be clothed. The "heavenly father knoweth that ye have need of all these things," (Matt 6:30-32).

"Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him," (1 Cor 2:9).

Hope in Difficult Times

Even if you reach what you consider to be your lowest point, God's Word says He will never leave or forsake you, (Matt 28:20). 

He will give you peace and comfort even in the worst of circumstances, then lead you through, over or around the muck and mire of your situation, and again set your feet on solid ground.

Our God is the God of new beginnings, with Him, nothing is impossible. Whether you are very young or considered to be very old, trust in Him because with Him it is always just the beginning.

You may even find yourself in such a situation through divorce, death of a spouse, loss of health, finances, or whatever, that may force you to begin all over again, but is that so bad? Trusting God in difficult times forces us to seek His guidance, and to trust in Him.

Trusting God through these uncharted waters takes faith and courage but is worth every effort. The path of His choosing is the only one that leads to true happiness,

Isn't this a wonderful promise "...those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint," (Is 40:31).

Even in the Worst of Situations

A shining example of living with hope is Victor Frankel, a former prisoner in a Nazi prison camp.

"As a long-time prisoner in bestial concentration camps he [Viktor Frankly] found himself stripped to naked existence. His father, mother, brother, and his wife died in camps or were sent to gas ovens, so that, excepting for his sister, his entire family perished in these camps.

How could he - every possession lost, every value destroyed, suffering from hunger, cold and brutality, hourly expecting extermination - how could he find life worth preserving?" 

In one of his darkest moments while digging in a cold icy trench, he writes:

"In a last violent protest against the hopelessness of imminent death, I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt it transcend that hopeless, meaningless world, and from somewhere I heard a victorious 'Yes' in answer to my question of the existence of an ultimate purpose.

At that moment a light was lit in a distant farmhouse, which stood on the horizon as if painted there, in the midst of the miserable grey of a dawning morning in Bavaria. 'Et lux in tenebris lucent'--and the light shineth in the darkness."

From one of His Counselling Sessions

"This young woman knew that she would die in the next few days. But when I talked to her she was cheerful in spite of this knowledge. 'I am grateful that fate has hit me so hard,' she told me. 'In my former life I was spoiled and did not take spiritual accomplishments seriously.'

Pointing through the window of the hut, she said, 'This tree here is the only friend I have in my loneliness.' Through that window she could see just one branch of a chestnut tree, and on the branch were two blossoms. 'I often talk to this tree,' she said to me.

I was startled and didn't quite know how to take her words. Was she delirious? Did she have occasional hallucinations? Anxiously I asked her if the tree replied. 'Yes.' What did it say to her? She answered, 'It said to me, "I am here--I am here--I am life, eternal life."

Cancelled Races

Live Running – 1 Dec 2018

Wonderful run -15 December 2018

Notice Board

Useful Links:

raceresults.co.za/flyers - for the latest race pamphlets

agn.co.za/#League for the latest league logs and the league points you earned



AGN 2017 RW qualifying standards and selection criteria

runawaysport.co.za Run-A-Way Sport’s web site

verticalhorison.co.za Trail Running trailseries.co.za Trail Running

Age Graded Calculator

By clicking where it hurts then ticking which symptoms most apply to you we can give you an indication of what injuries may apply.

League Race

Saturday 17 November Tom Jenkins Run/Walk Challenge 21.1/10/5 km

Race Organisers: Arcadia Running Club

Venue: Pretoria Union Buildings, Church Street Arcadia

GPS: S 27.7402 E 28.2102

| |21.1 km |10 km |5 km |

| Entry fee |R 90 |R 70 |R50 |

| Start Time |06:00 |06:20 |

| Cut-off |03:30 |02:00 | |

No pets

No iPods or listening devices are allowed

Pre-entries at: Run-A-way Sport; Sweatshop Southdowns; Tshwane Running Shop



Saturday 24 November Voortrekker Monument Road Race 21.1/10/5 km

Race Organisers: Voortrekker Monument Athletics Club

Venue: Voortrekker Monument, Eufees Road

GPS: S 25.77690 E 28.17747

| |21.1 km |10 km |5 km |

| Entry fee |R 90 |R 70 |R40 |

| Entry fee – Jardine joggers; 60 - 69 |R 50 |R 50 | |

| Entry fee – 70+; athletes celebrating their birthday (Show ID) |Free | |

| Start Time |06:00 |06:15 |

| Cut-off |03:00 |

No pets

No iPods or listening devices are allowed

Pre-entries at: Run-A-way Sport; Postnet Pretoria West; Sportman’s Warehouse – Atterbury Value Mart, Centurion Value Mart, Menlyn Park Shopping Centre



Saturday 8 December Skosana Road Race 10/5 km & 1 kiddies’ mile

Race Organisers: Nedbank Running Club

Venue: Pretoria Correctional Services, Kgosi Mampuru Street

| |10 km |5 km |mile |

| Entry fee |R ?? |R ?? |R?? |

| Start Time |06:30 |08:30 |

| Cut-off |?? |?? | |

Free t-shirts for the 1st: 600 entries (10km); 300 (5km) & 100 (mile)

No pets

No iPods or listening devices are allowed

Pre-entries at: Run-A-way Sport; Sweatshop Southdowns; AGN Office

|2018 AGN LEAGUE FIXTURE LIST |

|EVENT |DISTANCE |DATE |LEAGUE |

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|Tom Jenkins |21.1/10 km |17/11 |X |X |

Masters Athletics Fixture list

South African Championships

3/4 May 2019 Oudtshoorn

Africa Champs

December 2018 Africa Championships Tunisia

International Championships

24-30 March 2019 WMA Indoor Torun, Poland

28/9-6/10 2019 30th Summer universiade Naples, Italy

20/7/2020 – 1/8/2020 World Masters athletics Champs Toronto, Canada

Time Trials:

Centurion - Wednesdays at 17:30

Lewende Woord Centurion

Contact Marinda    654 5800 (h) / 082 720 9017

Rietondale - Thursdays 17:30

North Street, Rietondale (Rietondale Park in the street before the Crawford Stadium) 

Contact Hennie Venter 082 676 6792

Zita Park - Tuesdays at 17:30

Zita Street, Zita Park, Garsfontein

Contact Hennie Venter – 082 676 6792 Marietjie Venter – 072 541 7268

Gazebo Enquiries

Hennie Venter – 082 676 6792 Marietjie Venter – 072 541 7268

|Intercessor: |

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|Fred Harding 076 777 7786 |

Agapé Executive 2017/2018

|Name |Position |Telephone number |E-mail address |

|Marieta Bortoli |Chairperson & editor |012 331 2089 |marietabortoli@ |

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|Hennie Venter |Registrar, club captain & Vice-chairperson |082 676 6792 |henniev@seng.co.za |

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|Marilett Jenkins |Secretary |082 837 2142 |marilett.jenkins@mervitzmalan.co.za |

|André Breytenbach |Treasurer |083 566 1090 |andreb@.za |

|De Wet de Beer |PRO |082 373 2987 |dewet@styletechnique.co.za |

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|Fred Harding |Intercessor |076 777 7786 |fwhard@ |

|Marix Venter |Clothing co-ordinator |072 541 7268 |Ventermarix9@ |

|Suzette van Staden |General activities |083 290 6280 |suzettevs971220@ |

|Gustav Brink |Statistician |083 417 8431 |gustav.brink@ |

Photo corner

Agapé Executive

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Marieta Bortoli Marilett Jenkins Hennie Venter

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De Wet de Beer André Breytenbach Marix Venter

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Fred Harding Suzette van Staden Gustav Brink (Ex-officio)

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