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born 1966 South Africa
Elana Meyer,OIS, (born 10 October 1966) is a South African long-distance runner who won the silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in the 10,000 metres event.
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And it’s the prestige of competing in one of the world’s top 10 marathon majors, that we believe the 2014 Cape Town Marathon will become.
My best days still start with a run in the mountains – I run for good health, energy, and to clear my head!
I founded it and helped get sponsors and partners on board and there is an emphasis on parallel career development and not just athletics career development.
Nothing could be more devastating to your ability to perform than arriving at the starting line in a less than ideal frame of mind.
You can benefit from the best training programme in the world, but without a certain degree of motivation and discipline, one can quite easily fail.
I am still a passionate runner and I try to run most days. But today it’s for very different reasons – it’s for good health, energy and to stay sane.
We believe that sport will continue to play an important role in the sustainable social development and transformation space within South Africa, in particular with respect to Women and transformation, and taking children off the streets.’
The answer is quite simple: it’s not so much about the training and diet as it is about just one simple action: committing yourself to doing it.
It requires honesty and pragmatism, asking yourself again if you are disciplined and can you be honest enough to pull yourself back in line when that discipline goes pear-shaped?
Especially in today’s demanding way of life, you have to be able to push back and understand that for you to achieve that goal, you need to put in the action required to make it happen.
I loved the opportunities that I had and it was 10-15 of the most amazing years of my life. And I love it where I am now trying to help produce the next generation of South African distance runners.
We are an ultra-mad country where people normally think a marathon is for sissies and you have to run 90 kilometres to be considered a proper runner