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1 June 2025

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Newsletter #05/25 NBRC – Vanderbijlpark May ‘25

“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does.” A famous saying by Nelson Mandela

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General

Nedbank Running Club Vaal Triangle clubhouse at Kollege Park Primary school (Glanville street) Vanderbilpark

First, we want to welcome members who have already registered at the club for 2025, especially new members who have joined us since our last newsletter. We trust that you all have a wonderful experience with Nedbank Running Club in 2025. Winter is upon us again and our wish is that you stay healthy during the coming months.

We want to welcome Renaldo Jansen on the management team. We know you are going to make a big impact on the team.

We want to say once again thank you to Nedbank and all our sponsors for continuous support which allow athletes to compete at the highest level. Without this support it would be difficult to achieve the same and even better results than what we had achieved in 2024. We as Nedbank Running Club Vanderbijlpark promise to keep on making you proud where we compete in our beloved green.

Gerda Pretorius and Salome Naude handle all club related enquiries as well as all running gear. The contact number for Gerda is 072 209 9906. Gerda and/or Salome will be available every Tuesday at the clubhouse from 17:00.

We as management hope that you enjoy our newsletter and if you want to share information or an article to be published, please feel free to send it to my email address namely johanstr2@gmail.com. It would be much appreciated as this is the monthly newsletter of all our members. If you want to share results, as many already do, please feel free to send it to my WhatsApp number 083 651 5170 as well. Looking forward to share some “good feel” stories in the newsletter.

Registration 2025

Registration can be done in the following manner:

Members can register at the clubhouse on Tuesdays from 17:00. Members can also register for 2025 using the following method:

ASA as well as the Nedbank Running Club’s registration forms must be completed.
You can obtain the necessary forms for your 2025 registration by open the following attached links:

https://eolstoragewe.blob.core.windows.net/wm-11331-cmsimages/25,MembershipApplicationForm2025(BankDetails).pdf

https://eolstoragewe.blob.core.windows.net/wm-11331-cmsimages/25,CodeConductAcceptance2025.pdf

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If you have problems obtaining the forms via the links, you are more than welcome to request these forms from me. Just sent your email address to johanstr2@gmail.com and the forms will gladly be forwarded to you.
Please complete all forms and email it with your proof of payment to the email address of Pierre Pretorius, pierre@marvibex.com and Johan Strydom, johanstr2@gmail.com
The 2025 fees are available on the Nedbank Running Club registration form.
Suggestion from my side is to download the requested forms and complete it before you go to the Club to register. That will save you valuable time.
Payment for license and membership fees can be done directly in the following Nedbank account:

NEDBANK RUNNING CLUB VANDERBIJLPARK

BRANCH VAAL MALL – 189137

ACCOUNT NUMBER – 1891012398

REFERENCE – NAME & SURNAME AND LICENSE NUMBER IF AVAILABLE

(Example Johan Strydom 128)

We do have a card machine available for registration at the clubhouse. With this we want to urge our athletes to register as soon as possible to make the most of your ASA license number for the whole of 2025

Time Trials – Harry Marx

6 May 2025

13 May 2025

20 May 2025

27 May 2025

We want to invite ALL members, including new members, to come and join us every Tuesday at 17:15 for the Time Trials.

Come and experience the company of fellow members for a 2,4,6 and 8km run, even a 1km run will be accommodated. The course is properly marked to prevent participants from getting lost and it is very safe. Walkers are also more than welcome to come and join. Time Trials are important to measure your progress from week to week and we can see in the results how participants better themselves on a weekly basis.

Reminder of the “braai” on Tuesday the 17^th of June ’25. This will also serve as the Comrades post-race function. More information will be communicated to our members by Harry Marx.

Club Athlete of the month

Management decided to award Michelle Preston-Spies for the Club Athlete for the month of April. Michelle broke the 5000m record in the T13 class on a Track and Field meeting. Congratulations Michelle, we are proud of you!

Cross Country – Chairperson Beaulah Valentin

Good luck to all our athletes for the 2025 season and may you achieve the goals you set for yourself. The dates for the league fixtures are as follows:

The first league was at VUT on the 10^th of May ’25 and as usual our Nedbank athletes made us proud. Want to share the following information regarding the league with you:

29 Athletes from our club participated
We achieved 18 top 3 places
We had 10 first places, 4 second places and 4 third places
We had 24 of the 29 athletes in the top five places
8 of our athletes qualified for the AVT A team according to the qualifying standards regarding the qualifying times set
11 of our athletes qualified for the AVT B team according to the qualifying standards regarding the qualifying times set
2 of our athletes just missed out by seconds on the qualifying time standard

The second league was held on Saturday the 31^st of May ’25 at Khanya Lesedi in Heidelberg, and we’ll report on the results in our next newsletter.

Remaining leagues and championships:

14 June 2025 – TBA, presented by Boxer AC

28 June 2025 – George Thabe Stadium, presented by Future Champs and Lekoa AC

12 July 2025 – Driehoek High School, presented by Hoekies AC

2 August 2025 – Kollegepark Primary school, presented by Nedbank RC

9 August 2025 – AVT Cross Country championships – Kollegepark Primary school, presented by Nedbank Running Club in cooperation with AVT

6 September 2025 – ASA Cross Country championships – Kees Taljaard Stadium in Middelburg, Mpumalanga

To qualify for selection for the ASA Cross Country championships an athlete must:

Compete and complete 50% of the leagues of which at least 25% participation must be in a Township league

Compete and complete 50% of the inter provincial for which he/she was selected

Compete and complete the AVT Cross Country championships

Remember that there will be for the first time a qualifying time for each event. Qualifying times will be calculated on an athlete three (3) fastest league times

There will be an AVT A team sponsored by AVT and an AVT B team which will be for the cost of the athlete.

Entry stickers must be bought at each league for R40 per sticker. There will be an entrance fee of R40 for spectators. Card machine facility will be available at all events and AVT championships.

Valid 2025 ASA number must be worn at all leagues and championships and age category tags if applicable (age 35-90)

Road Running – Chairperson Joggie van der Sandt

Please remember to forward your results to the commission for recognition in 2025.

The following results with podium finishes were received from our road athletes and we want to congratulate each one for his/her performance:

Sasol Marathon

Sampie Mokgatla – 2^nd Veteran Male in the 21.1km race

Tsietsi Mokoena – 1^st Master Male in the 21.1km race

Carnival City Marathon

Megan Waller – 1^st Female and Junior Female in the 10km race

Gert Sibande

Sibusiso Ndhlela – 1^st Veteran Male in the 10km race

NG Kerk Vaalpark

Sampie Mokgatla – 1^st Male in the 10km

Ntumelo Mathebula – 3^rd Male in the 10km

Mother’s day race

Helene van Rooyen – 1^st lady and 1^st Veteran Female

Sampie Mokgatla – 1^st Veteran Male

Race of Gratitude

Helene van Rooyen – 1^st Veteran Female in excellent time of 1:26:57

Gijima Hayinabongozi Race

Sampie Mokgatla – 1^st Veteran Male

Paulus Mofokeng – 2^nd Master Male

We want to congratulate all our athletes with your excellent performances. Looking at the results we can only be proud of you. Please note the result of Megan Waller our Junior Female athlete who entered for the 5km but because of officials not showing the 5km athletes to turn, she ended up running the 10km race in the excellent time of 38 minutes and 29 seconds. Surely one of our future stars!

Comrades sendoff function – Friday the 23^rd of May ‘25

A big thank you to all athletes and partners who attended this function. From feedback received it was successful and everyone enjoyed the function. Dr. Adele Broodryk was our guest speaker and I am sure that our participants benefitted from the points she raised. She highlighted vital points on nutrition, mindset, and the reason why athletes are doing the Comrades marathon.

Adele finished the Comrades twice and both medals were Gold medals. She finished third in 2022 in a time of 6:26:35 and second in 2023 in a time of 5:56:26. Her finishing time in 2023 is the third fastest time in the history of the Comrades marathon for female athletes. She also has three Gold medals from completing the Two Oceans marathon and she is also a two time champion in the Om die Dam 50km ultra marathon. Some of her personal best times is as follows:

10km 34:49
Half marathon 1:22:16
Marathon 2:46:54

The following athletes will take on the Comrades marathon on Sunday the 8^th of June ’25 and we want to wish them everything of the best and may they all achieve what they plan for. We are looking forward to feedback from all of you after the race on your journey was. We as club will support you all the way down from Pietermaritzburg to Durban and I will personally track all of you on the route.

Between these athletes they have completed 197 races and obtained during the years 22 silver medals

Novices

Renaldo Jansen

Stefan Killian

Morena Mahamotsa - Apology

Two (2) Medals

Tumelo Motaung

Jovan Jacobs - Apology

Michelle Preston-Spies - Unfortunately, Michelle will not compete this year and she had to withdraw. I know she will be back next year and will then even be stronger

Three (3) Medals

Harry Marx

Wian Gouws - Apology

Nicholas Lepholletse - Apology

Six (6) Medals

Isaak Mokoena – Have 2 silver medals to his name and a best time of 7:21:55 - Apology

Seven (7) Medals

Francis Heymans

Ndoki Nthako

Eight (8) Medals

Thomas Mokoena

Nine (9) Medals

Tsietsi Mokoena – Going for 10 and his permanent green number. Have 3 silver medals in his collection with a best time of 6:42:59

Ten (10) Medals

Lourens Erasmus – Got his 10^th medal and permanent green number in 2024 and will run this year for the first time with that special number

Eleven (11) Medals

Pula Kheitsane – Got 9 silver medals in his collection with a best time of 6:44:26 - Apology

Thirteen (13) Medals

Eddie Radebe – Got 2 silver medals in his collection with best time of 6:30:52

Roselinah Kheitsane - Apology

Fourteen (14) Medals

Christo du Preez

Fifteen (15) Medals

Raymond Mokoena – Got 1 silver medal in his collection with best time of 7:17:05

Seventeen (17) Medals

Joseph Dzhuvha – Got 5 silver medals in his collection with best time of 6:21:20

Twenty Two (22) Medals

Hennie Smith

Thirty (30) Medals

Coenie Herbst – Going for his 31^st medal and he has done a lot of kilometers just on the Comrades marathon. If we work on average of 85 km it comes to +- 2,550 km

More photos of the evening

Track & Field – Chairperson Tracey Olivier

Our Track and Field season has ended but we are looking forward to the next season.

We want to congratulate two of our members who were elected to the ASA board during the ASA Quadrennial General Elective Meeting which was held on the 31st of May 2025

1. Sabata Kumalo - Commission Vice Chairperson for Track and Field

2. Tracey Olivier - Additional member for the Track and Field Commission

You make us proud and we wish you all of the best in your positions on the ASA Commissions.

Masters Athletics – Chairperson Braam Botes

Some of our athletes participated at the SAMA championships and we are still awaiting the results.

Dates for upcoming Master events:

FS Masters Throws & Jumps – 2 August ’25

FS Masters Open Championships – 27 September ‘25

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