To all our fellow BAK Members.
We are in the middle of winter and I hope that the cold and
rain is not keeping you from training.
I am pleased to report that our number of members has
increased again, we are currently on 370 members, this is the most that the
club has ever had, thank you all for being part of our amazing club.
Well done to all our 2019 Comrades runners, we had a total
of 40 runners finishing on the day with quite a few brilliant performances, a
special congratulations to the following members who reached special milestone,
Frik Nelson completed his 20th Comrades, Geoff Lee and Lionel Cronje
completed their 10th Comrades, we are very proud of all of you!
We have been awarded 6 development entries for the Cape
Town Marathon, if you feel you should be awarded one of these entries please
send us an email to bellvilleac@gmail.com
by 26 July 2019.
The much anticipated ORAK 12-hour race took place on 29
June, the biggest competition on the day was between the BAK men and
ladies, as per expectations the ladies again dominated the day, WELL DONE
Ladies!! A big congratulations to our men’s and ladies teams for the winning
the team prizes, as a club we also won the prize for the most competitors,
thank you to each and every BAK member that made the trip to Vredendal, it was
a great weekend and great memories were made.
The 21x21km challenge has been such a huge success that the
committee has decided to start a new 10km challenge as well. This challenge is
aimed at our members who are not ready to take on the 21x21km challenge yet. The
other challenge we currently have is the Ultra Challenge, we have also decided
to make some changes to this challenge, all three challenges will start 1
October 2019 and end 30 September 2020. We will provide you with more detail on
each challenge closer to the time, hopefully all our members will be part of
one of these challenges starting 1 October 2019.
There is also some very exciting developments on the future
of our club, I cannot divulge much information at this time but will do so in
due course, we will however need our members to participate in the process,
stay tuned we will share more information soon.
Happy running, stay warm and healthy and see you on the
road.
Andre