{"id":230,"date":"2013-03-29T18:16:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T18:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/capetown\/?p=230"},"modified":"2013-03-30T13:30:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T13:30:53","slug":"mokoka-takes-two-oceans-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/capetown\/news\/mokoka-takes-two-oceans-half","title":{"rendered":"Mokoka  takes Two Oceans Half"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_231\" style=\"width: 541px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/capetown\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/mokoka-TOh.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-231\" class=\" wp-image-231 \" title=\"Stephen Mokoka \" alt=\"Stephen Mokoka \" src=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/capetown\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/mokoka-TOh.jpg\" width=\"531\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/capetown\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/mokoka-TOh.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/capetown\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/mokoka-TOh-300x152.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Mokoka<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Despite the gale force South Easterly winds a record of 13\u00a0765 runners enjoyed finishing the Old Mutual Two Oceans half-marathon at the University of Cape Town fields.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 6 and 6.10 starts appears to have favoured the 21,1 km participants as the wind increased in strength when they had already turned after 6 km back towards the Table Mountain range.<\/p>\n<p>The growing international interest reflected in the outstanding win by youthful 23 year old Ethiopian Biru Meseret Mengistu.<\/p>\n<p>Her outstanding winning time of 1 hour 12 minutes 43 seconds reducing the record set on the new course last year by 2 minutes 19 seconds and only 47 seconds behind the record on the old course which excluded the tough Edinburgh Drive climb after 2 km into the race.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s winner Rene Kalmer improved her record too by 8 seconds with 3 time bridesmaid Irvette van Blerk running a superb 62 seconds faster than last year but dropping to third.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly the wind was not an inhibiting factor but the emergence of another classy Ethiopian raised the level of performance to the top level on a tough course.<\/p>\n<p>The men ran according to form with Stephen Mokoka winning in 1 hour 3 minutes 36 seconds smashing last year\u2019s record by 78 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>A mere 9 seconds covered the first three with twice-winner (2010 &amp; 2011) Lusapho April maintaining his excellent record of consistency finishing 2 nd.<\/p>\n<p>2012 runner-up Joel Mmone took a huge 76 seconds off his time of last year and as with Irvette van Blerk dropped from 2 nd to 3 rd.<\/p>\n<p>These performances would indicate a significant improvement on 2012 which is confirmed in the top 7 men all finishing below last year\u2019s winning time and record on the new course.<\/p>\n<p>report by Peter Wrensch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the gale force South Easterly winds a record of 13\u00a0765 runners enjoyed finishing the Old Mutual Two Oceans half-marathon at the University of Cape Town fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[92,5,54,1,138],"tags":[79,17,141,93,29],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopia","category-featured","category-half","category-news","category-tom","tag-79","tag-cape-town","tag-half","tag-simon-mokoka","tag-two-oceans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/capetown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","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=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/capetown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/capetown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/capetown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/capetown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/capetown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/capetown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}