SPORT
IT’s cycling academics
Annette Willemse
Getting out of the office and taking part in some form of sport is an
important way many staff members
on the Vaal Triangle Campus of the
North-West University (NWU Vaal)
choose to unwind at the end of a
busy day or week.
Roelien Goede
Staying healthy and managing stress
in today’s day and age are things
we all struggle with; for Prof Roelien
Goede from the School of Information Technology within the Faculty of
Economic Sciences and Information
Technology, this is also what inspires
her to keep on cycling.
For the past ten years she has been
cycling for both recreation and competition. To date she has completed
five Cape Argus cycle tours and four
94.7 cycle challenges. Her best times
in these events fall in the above average range for the category she competes in. When training for an event
she tries to cycle 1 500km in the ten
weeks prior to the event. Advice she
would give to any enthusiastic cyclist
is to show lots of commitment and to
practice effective time management.
It is important to make the time to
train and participate in events.
also plays tennis and golf – indeed a
sporting enthusiast.
She started cycling back in 1998 and
belongs to the Riverside Pedal Pals
cycling club. Over the years she has
competed in thirteen Cape Argus
Pick n Pay Cycle tours, and will be
competing in her fourteenth come
March 2014. During January she will
also be competing in the 2014 Fast
One Cycle Race.
Ms Gilliland increases her strength
by exercising in the gym, as strength
is a very important factor when taking on steep inclines such as Chapman’s Peak and Suikerbossie. Furthermore, she believes in a healthy
lifestyle and that taking on challenges, mentally and physically, is a good
thing.
Her advice to anyone wanting to
take up cycling as a sport is that you
should remember to be very careful,
alert and visible when you do road
cycling, and adds that cycling is a
very good way of keeping fit.
Top: Sonja Gililand is an avid sports
lady, with cycling being only one of
her talents.
Left: Roelien Goeded loves the cycle and has the tours to prove it.
You to can be a cycle enthusiast!
Make sure you pop by Building 24
G02 (Sports Office) to find out how
to join!
Prof Goede will be competing in the
Cape Argus this year.
Sonja Gilliland
Enjoying the outdoors and the scenery of our beautiful country are just
two reasons to take up cycling as a
sport.
Ms Sonja Gilliland - another lecturer within the School of Information
Technology, not only cycles for these
reasons, but also to keep fit and to
stay healthy. She doesn’t limit het
active lifestyle to only cycling; she
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