Are you ready to Rise to the Challenge?
The Rise to the Challenge Campaign needs all runners to record each kilometre of training and all your formal races from January 2012 until the end of the Comrades Marathon. Convince a sponsor to sponsor you for all those kilometres on the road and commit to raising at least R1 000. For this commitment you will receive:

• a special edition Nedbank Tom Cottrell’s Runners’ Summer Race Dates Log Book
• a PinkDrive/The Sports Trust training t-shirt
• a unique PinkDrive/The Sports Trust badge with the number of races that you participated in to wear on race day.

Runners who raise over R5 000 for the Rise to the Challenge Campaign will have their names entered into the Comrades Race4Charity. This allows you to have special seeding at the start. Each Race4Charity Comrades finisher will have a ‘plaque’ purchased on their behalf (R300 from their money raised) to be attached to the famous Comrades Wall of Honour.

After Comrades the PinkDrive and The Sports Trust will combine all the log books so that the combined total of training and race kilometres done in the lead up to, and during the Comrades Marathon can be sent in to the Guinness World Record Committee.

The PinkDrive and The Sports Trust are both very passionate about promoting the message of staying healthy and fit at the grass root level.

The PinkDrive focus is on breast cancer education and awareness for women in disadvantaged communities. They also make a mobile mammography unit available to women in grass root communities throughout the country – ‘Early Detection Saves Lives’.

The Sports Trust works closely with disadvantaged communities to create a new sporting tradition in our country. The Sports Trust works to give disadvantaged South Africans a glimpse of their limitless sporting potential.