My Journey - June Corrie "You are an Ironman".... These 4 words were my mantra for 14 months. I breathed them every second of every day. They kept me alive! There are two parts in my journey to Ironman that I want to share with you. You are not your past. LCHF/Banting is not expensive. You are not your past Crossing the finish line at Ironman South Africa 2015 was my Everest Peak. A symbol that anything is possible once you put your mind to it. By age 13, I have been continually molested for years by my brother, stepbrother and stepfather. For me sexual abuse became the norm. How I was loved and accepted. If not sexually abused, I...
Thought I’d share, ‘My Story’ …. In August 2014, I made a conscious decision to change the way I was eating … and declared publicly that I would ‘quit sugar’ & refined (white) carbohydrates!! By December 2014 I had lost about 9kgs and was starting to feel the (positive) effects of the change in my diet … most noticeably a (dramatic) increase in energy!! I’d joined a few ‘banting’ pages on face book … only follow the BBBD now & Banting for Athletes! I had been leading a ‘sedentary’ life style for some time ‘fuelled’ with Sugar & Starch!! We were preparing to head down to Southbroom for our December (2014) holiday when I noticed a message on the...
The first question people ask me is; why did you chose to do the Tankwa Camino? I did not. I say. It chose me. I saw it on Facebook, sent an e-mail and they said the first space available was for 2017… And well out the window that went. Who wants to wait so long? So I forgot about it until a few weeks later I saw a post on my news feed that there had been a group cancellation of six. I phoned Samantha and said book… She did, paid the deposit and we were in! A few days later the confirmation came that payment was received, we were in and it was four months away. Plenty of...
If you have nothing else but passion, you are strong enough to move mountains…. A month out from Ironman I was sweating anxiously at night, heart palpitating, kicking my own arse for entering in the first place. I was physically not prepared at all for this race and my reason for entering not at all that well thought through as it was. Thoughts of pulling out haunted me for nights!! I am incredibly passionate about triathlons and ever since 2014 when I was privileged enough to grace the podium twice at Olympic distance triathlons, the passion, desire, drive to do so more often multiplied a million times. Doing my first Ironman in 2015 confirmed to me that getting to qualify...
