Thanks to everybody who donated to The Rockstar Foundation project. As it turns out, I ran an amazingly fun marathon and finished in 4 hours and 50 minutes to qualify for the next humdinger, the Two Oceans Ultra marathon.

Your support in every way, is greatly appreciated.

Dear readers, followers and supporters,

Thanks to a fabulous donation by my longtime friend Tertius (a glass of gratitude red wine is waiting for you in the winelands), I'm now just R20 away from reaching the R4220 goal. :D
In marathon terms I'd be half an athletics track (200m) away from the end, my tongue dragging on the ground, my body begging me to stop but my mind jubilant at the sight of the finish line.

I thought of donating the last R20 myself but decided to donate it to another activist's project instead and encourage a lone random individual out there (unknowingly destined by fate!) to sacrifice that coffee and muffin this week. Will it be you? :)

Not wanting to get annoyingly repetitive -thanks so much for all the donations. It's fabulous to be reminded of the vast generosity of my friends, family, acquaintances and even random strangers.

*blown away*
What a fantastic response. Thanks so so much to Annele (my traithlon idol), my best bud SuperJaco, Amanda (aka that other lady/ & great running partner) and the very generous(!) Ronel and my 2 knees for your contributions. You've catapulted this project to being a mere R400 away from goal. Woohoo!

From the training side, after a slightly painful post-long run Monday, the body has recovered and the knees are happy once again. Less than 3 weeks to go - excited!

Yoyoyoyo. I've been a bad updater. But if it's any consolation it's because I've been out there on the road, training my little toes off for the upcoming 42km.
Only 19 days to go!

For updates on the training, visit the blog:
http://gigaf.org/nukwnb

Time is also running out for reaching the goal amount of R4200 in support of the education of talented little 9-year old Okuhle Mayiji from The Rockstar Foundation.
So to those who indicated that they'd like to make a donation, now would be a great time.

If you feel you could get away with one less coffee and muffin this week, every extra Rand that goes towards my running fund-raising project will be greatly appreciated.
And if you have stacks of cash lying around with no idea what to do with it...I could help out with that ;)

Again, thanks so much for supporting my training efforts these past few months, whether it be through Givengain donation, being out on the road with me, following the blog, listening to my endless chatter about running or all of the above.

Much love,
Anita

Monday Monday. Busy week ahead. But just a quick hello and heartfelt thanks to my dearest friends Irene, Pippa & Paul who made donations last week :) Ever so grateful.

Another awesome donation day! :)))
Thank you to friends Deon, Leigh and Annette for your generosity. And also to tech-wizard Albert from the Givengain group, who helps make online donation possible.
Greatly appreciated.

On another note, the running is, once more, coming along nicely after a short-lived snotty-nosed cold last week. Yesterday was Tempo run day - the cauliflower of training sessions (yucky!)I'm more of a slow long run type.
But powered through and came out the other end feeling strong.
[READ MORE ABOUT IT HERE: http://gigaf.org/oetnXS]


2 months and 18 days to go!

Stay cool (or warm in this weather, in fact)
And keep on giving!

- Anita :)

R1000 in the first 2 days - wow!
When I checked my e-mail last night and saw all the donation notification, this overwhelming generosity of spirit literally left me smiling uncontrollably.
Thank you ever so much for your donations: Marilyn (all the way over the cables from the USA), Chris (my buddy in all things running :), (Super)Jaco! and the very generous donation from my sister Marié who, with 2 little girls of her own, also has a passion for the raising of kind, generous but strong young ladies.

Many many thanks and please continue spreading the word!

Thanks to Jannie for his kind donation to my Running Rockstar project. Muchly appreciated :)