{"id":11,"date":"2011-06-07T14:16:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T14:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ct\/?p=11"},"modified":"2014-10-05T08:45:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T08:45:19","slug":"taking-the-comrades-to-the-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/capetown\/news\/taking-the-comrades-to-the-community","title":{"rendered":"Taking the Comrades to the community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Taking the Comrades to the community.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/capetown\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Khaye.590.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13\" title=\"Khaye.590\" src=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/capetown\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Khaye.590.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/capetown\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Khaye.590.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/capetown\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Khaye.590-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The spirit of the Comrades Marathon was brought to Harare, Khayelitsha, in Cape Town this weekend through a community engagement fun run, organised by Sport and Development NGO SCORE.\u00a0 Bringing together community members of all ages to promote a healthy lifestyle and highlight the importance of participation in community activities, over 250 participants took part. Ranging from Primary school learners to the elderly, all ages ran through the streets of Harare, despite the weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe usually watch the Comrades on TV, but now it is coming to us,\u201d said Ntombomzi Maarman, who ran beside her sister and daughter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople think events like this are only for white people. You see it happening in Blouberg and Fish Hoek, never in the townships,\u201d she continues.<\/p>\n<p>Ntombomzi was encouraged to take part after her daughter Siyanda, a netball player in SCORE programmes told her about the run. Explaining that she wanted her mother to experience the same benefits as she has, she said \u201cHealthy exercise is good for your body, so when you see the opportunity, you should take it. It is very encouraging to see so many people in the community here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel alive now, I\u2019m young again today!\u201d Said Ntombzi after completing the run.<\/p>\n<p>Of the forty communities that SCORE activities take place in, SCORE aim to engage at least twenty five across South Africa to take part in fun runs as part of a national campaign to get community members active in sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking the Comrades to the community. The spirit of the Comrades Marathon was brought to Harare, Khayelitsha, in Cape Town this weekend through a community engagement fun run, organised by Sport and Development NGO SCORE.\u00a0 Bringing together community members of all ages to promote a healthy lifestyle and highlight the importance of participation in community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/capetown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/capetown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/capetown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/capetown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/capetown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/capetown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/capetown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/capetown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/capetown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/capetown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/capetown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}