Annie Bothma
MERGING MY PASSIONS: ANNIE'S ATHLETES
"Allow your passion to become your purpose, and it will one day become your profession." - Gabrielle Bernstein I closed my Fired Fitness...
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Annie Bothma
- Apr 28, 2022
- 9 min
BON COURAGE
A word that really resonated with me this year has been COURAGE. I started reading Ryan Holiday's COURAGE IS CALLING: FORTUNE FAVORS THE...
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Annie Bothma
- Apr 27, 2022
- 5 min
AND SO THE FIGHT CONTINUES...
"Behind mountains, there will always be more mountains to climb." - unknown When I trained in Kenya, the 3000m above sea altitude level...
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Annie Bothma
- Jan 6, 2022
- 5 min
ADDING POWER TO THE TEAM: NEW POWERBAR PARTNERSHIP
While training for a marathon, you need a lot of fuel to power you through all the long and hard miles on the road. If you want to...
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Annie Bothma
- Dec 5, 2021
- 4 min
BEHIND THE MASK
"Behind every mask, there is a face and behind that a story." - Marty Rubin The uncertainty that we all had to deal with was tough -...
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Annie Bothma
- Nov 19, 2021
- 6 min
FROM 0 TO 3000
This will be the first time since 2019, that I will not be returning to Kenya in December for training. For the past two years, I have...
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Annie Bothma
- Aug 11, 2019
- 5 min
TOTALSPORTS LADIES RACE 2019
A blog post in the celebration of Women's Month: The Totalsports Women's Month campaign, a race report about successfully defending my...
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Annie Bothma
- Jul 28, 2019
- 7 min
THE ROAD TO MY FIRST MARATHON
From overcoming my fears after falling at the Two Oceans Half Marathon to getting back on track - increasing my long runs, some race...
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Annie Bothma
- Jun 29, 2019
- 2 min
JOIN ME #RunClean
Running Clean is something that is very important to me. Today I went to the Helderberg Harriers's Spookhill Road race to help promote...
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Annie Bothma
- Jun 5, 2019
- 3 min
GLOBAL RUNNING DAY
Global Running Day is a day that celebrates the sport of running. It is held annually on the first Wednesday of June. Today millions of...
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Annie Bothma
- Apr 21, 2019
- 6 min
#RunClean
I honestly don't have a lot of words to describe how I am feeling right now... Frustrated is definitely one of them, sad should be in...
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Annie Bothma
- Mar 17, 2019
- 14 min
A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE: An inside look of how I kept fit while being injured
When I was flat on my back, I looked at life from a different angle and decided I wanted to change it. I chose to use the month I was off...
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Annie Bothma
- Feb 24, 2019
- 14 min
The Medals Against the Wall
"Gold Medals aren't made of gold. They are made of sweat, determination and a hard-to-find alloy called guts." - Dan Gable Growing up, I...
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Annie Bothma
- Feb 17, 2019
- 4 min
Changing the plan, NOT THE GOAL
I took a Detour that ended up to be a circle, taking me back to the start. After a hard fall in December, my old back injury flared up...
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Annie Bothma
- Jan 27, 2019
- 4 min
DETOUR
The one moment I was on top of the mountain (literally) and the next moment I am rolling down on the other side falling flat on my face...
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Annie Bothma
- Jan 13, 2019
- 3 min
Even if I fall, I will still fly again.
One of my favorite routes. Of course I will be there. Marked in big bold letters on my calendar, Bay to Bay 30K was going to be my first...
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Annie Bothma
- Jan 1, 2019
- 2 min
What I learned in 2018
The one of the biggest lessons I can take away from 2018 is: "YOU WILL LEARN MORE FROM BEING ROCK-BOTTOM, THAN YOU WILL EVER LEARN FROM...
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Annie Bothma
- Dec 31, 2018
- 2 min
The next chapter of my life...
I was recently asked an interesting question in an interview: “What will the next chapter of your life be called?” It sounds like a...
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