The XJ 10 race hosted by XJ Athletic Club (XJ AC) shows a lot of growth from its inception and it was evidenced in this week’s race when the second edition of the race was sold out three days before the actual day of the race. It also attracted the attention of international runners like Nape Letlatsa from Lesotho who is an elite runner who highly praised the high professionalism in this race.
“I registered very late manually over the phone but when I arrived my race pack was prepared and I did not struggle to get it. Even during the race everything was set accordingly, water points, race marshals and traffic department led us until the end,” said Letlaba.
The PRO of XJAC, Mawande Mpiti was deeply impressed with the turn up of runners as some were coming from OR Tambo district, Harry Gwala district and Ray Nkonyeni district, “The race was a huge success the turn up was quite nice and feedback from the runners was very encouraging and positive,” said Mpiti. He said they are waiting for the third edition whereby they will up the standard. Meanwhile, there were numbers of social runners who were their first time running and were impressed, willing to jump inside the “Pink Drive train”.
