Pretoria - March 22

Just start
‘There is nothing as heavy as
a dark thought, and on longdistance
runs, they are as energydepleting
and ultimately as
fatal as shoes that are one size
to small’. It was 2009, and Erica
Terblanche was about to run
250km over seven days across
the Sahara Desert, and she was
determined to displace negative
thinking with bright thoughts.
The five statements, (with factual
proof-points) were ... ‘I have the
potential do to this; I am in a
good place right now; I have so
much love in my life, and love
gives me wings; I love what I
am about to do; I can write a
thousand poems in the desert’.
And she followed that with ‘And
something wonderful can happen’.
Years, and much education in
positive psychology, later, she came
to understand why her simple list
was so powerful. ‘It was created on
the building blocks of the things that
make our lives worthwhile: Love and
connection, meaning and purpose, the
holding of worthwhile goals, a sense
of agency and self-belief and being
engaged in doing something one loves
for its own sake’.
In Run - For The Love Of LIfe, Erica
tells about how the hardest things
in her life, ‘bad things’, were the ones
that are important in her achieving
success. Part adventure, part travel, part
autobiographical novel, this brilliantly
written memoir stretches from North
Africa to Greece, from Turkey to the
Grand Canyon in Utah, from the desert
to the boardroom, from her growing
up in on a Free State farm to Cape
Town, where she lives now, and where
you’ll find her at Run Club early in the
morning on the Sea Point promenade,
or perhaps at the top of Table Mountain
with a group of kids who’re in the
process of learning the creative power
of goalsetting.
Run is inspirational and heart-breaking,
raw and real, uplifting and encouraging.
Even if you’ve never run, it’s an
extraordinary read. Hell ... it even has a
happy ending! And bonus ... at the back
of the book you’ll find a QR code for The
Ten Commandments of Running and the
Thrive Couch to 10km in 10 weeks training
programme. As she says ... ‘Just start’.
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At last, a sports bra that
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Compiled by: KYM ARGO
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