Several PinkDrive ambassadors will share their journey with thousands of runners and walkers at SA’s largest Women’s Day celebration, the iconic Totalsports Women’s Race that will catch plot across three cities on Wednesday 09 August 2023.
Cindy van Wyk (Ferndale, Johannesburg) was PinkDrive’s guest speaker in 2022 and will eagerly be back this year. Diagnosed with cancer in 2014, Van Wyk became a PinkDrive ambassador the same year.
“I admire the Totalsports Women’s Race,” says Van Wyk. “It is a fantastic initiative, and I am deeply grateful to be fragment of an event that makes it possible for PinkDrive to carry out what they enact. My message to entrants is to hold control of your health, enact your breast examinations, disappear for your mammograms and if you find a lump or a bump acquire it checked out and seen to immediately. Fight the fright! Fifty percent of the battle is won through medicine and fifty percent is fought in the mind.”
“I was diagnosed with an aggressive ductal carcinoma in my factual breast in August 2014. It was early Type 2, which meant it had spread into one lymph node under my correct arm,” confirms Van Wyk. “I underwent a bilateral mastectomy and had ten lymph nodes removed combined with an aggressive treatment protocol of both chemo and radiation. As with most newly diagnosed cancer patients, I was shocked, but I was not going to give up. I rallied up my friends and my family members in support of my battle. The biggest fight of my life came paired with physical and emotional pain and the adjustments that went with it.”
“I had to learn to accept and admire myself again, to inspect at the scars on my chest not as disfiguration but a reminder of the battle I was victorious in,” continues Van Wyk. “The scars are a daily reminder of my precious gifts called life and health. I remain cancer free and committed to speaking, mentoring, teaching, and working with PinkDrive. I will celebrate my health by taking section in the Totalsports Women’s Race in Johannesburg. I can’t wait to be portion of the celebration and share my account with entrants.”
“We are thankful for the generous donation that we received from the Totalsports Women’s Race in 2022,” says Nelius du Preez, PinkDrive National Marketing and Event Co-Ordinator. “We had a goal to purchase a modern mammogram machine. The funds raised helped us to reach our goal. We’ve had so many ladies near through for breast examinations over the years. Those are lives touched and changed. The Totalsports Women’s Race enables PinkDrive to ensure that our service continues benefitting communities across South Africa. We appreciate the opportunity to spread the message that ‘Early detection will succor to prolong life’.”
PinkDrive will be present at the Totalsports Women’s Race in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban offering FREE clinical breast examinations and educating on the importance of self-breast examinations.
EVENT INFORMATION: 2023 Totalsports Women’s Race
A fun filled Women’s Day celebration, the Totalsports Women’s Race encourages a healthy lifestyle and invites all women (grandmothers, aunts, sisters, mothers and daughters) to dash united in support of PinkDrive.
Date: Wednesday, 09 August 2023 / National Women’s Day
Venue:
• Durban:
Start: Masabalala Yengwa Ave
Finish: Kings Park Athletics Track
• Johannesburg:
Start & Finish: Marks Park, Emmerentia
• Cape Town:
Start & Finish: Grand Parade, Cape Town
Start Time: 08:00
Entry Fee:
10km licensed runner R140.00
5km R110.00
10km Cape Town unlicensed runner / R45.00 (temporary license included)
10km Johannesburg unlicensed runner / R50.00 (temporary license included)
10km Durban unlicensed runner / R50.00 (temporary license included)
Entries: Online entries open: Wednesday 05 April 2023
Online entries close: Wednesday 26 July 2023
Enter Via: www.totalsportswomensrace.co.za
EACH ENTRY INCLUDES: Each entrant will receive a fitted Event T-shirt and finisher’s medal, while getting to indulge in an entertaining route with vibrant refreshment points and a Live Performance at the finish.
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For more information on PinkDrive visit www.pinkdrive.co.za. For further information or to enter the Totalsports Women’s Race visit www.totalsportswomensrace.co.za
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