Wingate Road Runners Newsflash

1. Wingate Road Runners Newsflash Dear Athlete, Hope you are all settled in into the new year! From this week it will sure start to get hectic with school starting on Wednesday and the traffic returning to abnormal. Good luck to all the parents and kids for the school year! Have a great week!! TIME TRIAL RESULTS 2014/01/07 2014 MEMBERS INFO AND REGISTRATION A very warm welcome to all our new as well as our old members!! Please remember to register online and pay. For those of you who still want your 2013 number, you have until the end of the week to register and pay. I’ll be at the club on Tuesday again to hand our license numbers, please bring along your proof of payment. Only members who registered and paid will receive our sms messages. IMPORTANT INFO Time Trial starts at 17:45 Please Remember your reflector belts!! Runners and Walkers Welcome!! BELANGRIKE DATUMS Tuesday 4 February Light meal after TT 12 April – Loskop Weekend Away Details to follow this week!

2. Wingate Road Runners Newsflash KOPKRAPPER 2014 TENT RACES AND CHAMPIONSHIPS 25 January – Akasia 3-in-1 (42.2km, 21.1km, 10km) 1 February – McCarthy (21.1km, 10km) 8 February – Bronkhorstspruit (32km, 10km) 23 February – Deloitte (42.2km, 21.1km, 10km) 15 March – Om die Dam 29 March – Denel (21.1km, 10km) 12 April – Loskop (Weekend Away) Easter Weekend – Club Run 1 May – Wally Hayward (42.2km, 21.1km, 10km) Club Championships 42km: You can run any marathon between 1 January and 30 September and we will use your best time. If you ran a marathon where the results are not available on the Race Results website, it is your responsibility to let us know of your time. Saturday, 18 January George Claassen @ PWC Offices, Menlyn 21.1km Walk – R60 start 5:30 21.1km Run – R60 start 6:00 10km Run – R40 start 6:15 10km Walk – R40 start 6:30 5km – R20 start 7:00 Saturday, 25 January Akasia 3-in1 @ Wonderboom Shopping Centre 42.2km – R100 start 5:30 21.1km – R70 start 5:45 10km – R50 start 6:00 5km – R30 start 6:10 THIS IS A TENT RACE – JOIN AS AFTERWARDS FOR REFRESHMENTS Saturday, 8 February Bronkhorstspruit 2014 @ Hoërskool Erasmus 32km – R100 start 6:00 10km – R50 start 6:00 THIS IS A TENT RACE – JOIN AS AFTERWARDS FOR REFRESHMENTS Saturday, 15 Feburary BestmedTuks @ LC de Villiers 21.1km – Pre-entries only start 6:00 10km – start 6:30 5km – start 6:40 (prices to be confirmed) 21km and 10km: You can run any of the tent races up to two weeks before the yearend function (date still to be confirmed) and we will use your best time over the distance to work out the championships medals. To be in line with South African Masters Athletics (SAMA) rules, championship medals will be awarded in 5 year age categories from the age of 35. On a regular basis we will update the ranking list of all three championships distances, so that you can see what your position is. Please join us and make sure that you do participate at the tent races.

3. Wingate Road Runners Newsflash IN CLOSING Sorry for last week’s in closing – I didn’t realize I already placed it in the newsletter, oops!! Hope this one is newish !! ‘Tis a Miracle indeed Murphy drops some buttered toast on the kitchen floor. It lands butter-side-up. He looks at what he has done in astonishment, for he knows it’s a law of nature thatbuttered toast always falls butter-down. He rushes round to the presbytery to fetch the priest. He tells the priest that he thinks a miracle has happened round at his flat. He won’t say what it is but wants Friar Flannagan to see it with his own eyes. He brings Friar Flannagan into the kitchen and asks him what he sees on the floor." “Well,” says the priest, “it’s pretty obvious what we have here. Someone dropped some buttered toast, and then for some reason flipped it over so that the butter was on top.” “No, Father, I dropped it and it landed like that.” “Well,” Friar Flannagan says, “it’s certainly a natural law of the universe that dropped toast never falls butter side up. But it’s not for me to say it’s a miracle. I’ll report the matter to the bishop, and have him send people round, tointerview you, take photos, etc.” An investigation of some rigour is conducted, not only by priests of the archdiocese, but by scientists sent from the Curia in Rome. The final ruling is a negative, however. It reads: It was certainly an extraordinary event that occurred in Murphy’s room, quite outside the normal run of the phenomena. Yet we have to be very cautious before Ruling any happening miraculous, ruling out all possible natural explanations. In this case we have declared no miracle as it possibly resulted from Murphy's having buttered the toast on the wrong side.” HAPPY BIRTHDAY Wingate RR wishes everyone who celebrates their birthday a blessed day and a year filled with happiness, love, friends and everything nice. January Birthday’s 3 January – Mike Williams 9 January – Basil Faktor 12 January – Leoni Els 21 January – Toinette vd Merwe 25 January – Carole de Waal 26 January – Dave v Veenhuyzen Until next week, Happy Running! Natascha de Jager 071 688 8024