{"id":50030,"date":"2020-08-20T16:35:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T14:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/gear-up-for-women-only-virtual-challenge-20200819-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T07:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T05:49:14","slug":"gear-up-for-women-only-virtual-challenge-20200819-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/gear-up-for-women-only-virtual-challenge-20200819-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gear up for women-only virtual challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_1007c034\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/10427\/074e83b1bf66429a8099a9205639685a.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/10427\/7e7c91ecf7c4428795cdab820d815d0c.jpg\" title=\"2017 SPAR Grand Prix winner, Kesa Molotsane (left) and Olympian athlete Rene Kalmer are ready for South Africa\u2019s Most Beautiful Virtual Challenge, the 2020 SPAR Women\u2019s Virtual Challenge on September 26. Photo:REG CALDECOTT\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">2017 SPAR Grand Prix winner, Kesa Molotsane (left) and Olympian athlete Rene Kalmer are ready for South Africa\u2019s Most Beautiful Virtual Challenge, the 2020 SPAR Women\u2019s Virtual Challenge on September 26. Photo:REG CALDECOTT<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>THERE has been an excellent response to the SPAR Women\u2019s Virtual Challenge on September 26, with more than 12 000 tickets sold within days of its launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SPAR Women\u2019s Virtual Challenge was lunched in response to the cancellation of the SPAR Women\u2019s Challenge series around the country because of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of travelling to the six cities around the country making up the series, women are being invited to walk, run or jog a distance of their choice between 5 and 10 km, over a route of their choice, between sunrise and sunset on Saturday, September 26 and then share their experiences on social media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The organisers are hoping to set a world record for the most participants in a women-only virtual challenge and appear to be well on track to achieve that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s such a wonderful project in these very strange days we are living through,\u201dsaid SPAR Women\u2019s Virtual Challenge ambassador and former SPAR Grand Prix winner Kesa Molotsane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI know times have been tough, but I want people to be positive and this is a way we can all be positive and spread a bit of sunshine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rene Kalmer is another SPAR Women\u2019s Virtual Challenge Ambassador who is enthusiastic about the event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a different kind of challenge and there is a different kind of excitement about it,\u201d said Kalmer, a three-times SPAR Grand Prix winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am quite far gone in my second pregnancy, so I won\u2019t be trying to set any records on the day. 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