Choaro Losabe

Comrades medalist. Philanthropist

[PRASA Group @PRASA_Group]

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[Choaro Losabe @closabe]

@RediTlhabi Thanks Redi.. Will definitely frame this.

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

Let's talk about this. I too come to you in peace..I'm inviting you to sincerely confront your words, attitude and truly reflect. I appreciate you coming back and sharing your thinking. You made yourself vulnerable and opened space for engagement. I appreciate it. But here is my robust enquiry.

I am Brian's wife. He is my husband, the ONLY man to whom I ever want to be married. Why should he struggle to "tolerate" me taking a picture, a celebratory picture with a man that I have known professionally for years and like? What does it mean when colleagues, friends, fellow runners, take pictures with each other? Why should I not feel and capture the joy of seeing someone I like and respect? Why would a spouse struggle with that? By the way, I took MANY pictures that day. Were they all flirtations or just this one?

Your language is also problematic: "majority of us men can hardly handle such." That is a big problem for us women. Why are you fragile and so insecure? And the word "such." What is "such?" A picture? Not hidden but taken spontaneously at a public event? You generalize a lot instead of owning your own dysfunction. I know Makashule. I've interviewed him many times. Why would you interpret a picture as a flirtation?

The only problem here is insecurity. These insecurities lead to controlling behavior, accusations, fights, broken relationships and in many cases, emotional and physical abuse. What must women do with their warm, old and respectful relationships with childhood friends, kind classmates, colleagues, mentors? Pretend they don't know them and put superficial boundaries because men like you are constantly sexualizing them? And the idea that a woman can just bump into a man she knows, quickly and spontaneously and without blinking, she's just ready to be sexual, is disgusting and disrespectful. What makes you think women are wired that way and have no respect for themselves and their relationships?

Another reality. Brian has his own, warm and beautiful relationships with colleagues, friends with whom he goes way back, neighbours. Men and women too. He hugs them and supports them when they need him. The mutual affection between him and his own village is beautiful to watch. Must I scratch those womens' eyes out because they know Brian in a different context and have immense respect and affection for him? Must they suppress it because the wife can't cope with the fact that her man has a normal and healthy reaction to people that he likes?

You need to do some work on your view of women as pieces of meat who are just ready to give it up to any guy who walks past. It is precisely these thoughts that lead to abusive words and actions. Please reflect. Thank you for the tone of your engagement..it was not rude and ugly. I I hope you also see my response as an urgent desire to challenge your attitude and hopefully lead to better and healthier approaches to relationships.

[NkeleDiseko @DisekoNkele]

The Tears Of Joy
Sanlam Cape Town Marathon Finish Line

[GirlThatLifts/TheRunner @FitMasi]

Running Twitter Good Morning 🤝🏽😮‍💨

[Choaro Losabe @closabe]

@kwena_mogopa @Sevhic_ @kwena_mogopa Please check your DM

[Choaro Losabe @closabe]

Please assist me with a running club in Mahikeng @tumisole

[Dale @sociable_weaver]

Threshold session in regular trainers this morning 🌄

Nales we keep only for racing 🏁

[Choaro Losabe @closabe]

@Zukx_DaBrother Nale's 4

[Owen @_OwenM_]

Sad news has emerged from Ethiopia today 💔

Yebrgual Melese 🇪🇹 has passed away at the age of 36.

She won several marathons, including those in Houston, Prague, and Shanghai, and finished second in Chicago in 2015.

At the time she set her personal best of 2:19:36 in 2018, she was ranked 13th on the world all-time marathon list.

Yebrgual died after reportedly collapsing during a training session.

📸 Thomas Samson

[Choaro Losabe @closabe]

@sociable_weaver 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Elaine Thompson-Herah @FastElaine]

Thanks Gaborone Batswana for having us, we had a time. The devil tried to schedule your downfall, God declined the appointment! You’re coming out on top!
#bigmachine#fastelaine#faith#hiswill#perseverance#patience

[Choaro Losabe @closabe]

@FitMasi Come run Lemo

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

What in the world did we just see!

The 2 hour marathon barrier has been broken. Three guys went under the old world record...

Sabastian Sawe just ran 1:59:30 with crazy negative splits, closing the last half in 59:01....faster than the American Record in the half.

One of the most mind blowing performances we've seen. How did we get here?

Every breakthrough is a mixture of belief and progress.

It takes folks daring to see what's possible, surrounding themselves with a quality team and doing the work to give themselves a shot.

You've got to bet on yourself in a big way.

When asked whether he believed he could run a sub-2-hour marathon before the race, Sawe answered with one word:

"Yes."

Let's get the obvious out of the way. Performance enhancing drugs are the legitimate question mark to every breakthrough.

So Sawe did as much as he could about taking that off the table.

He and his team asked to be tested all the time. His sponsor put up 50K to the Athlete Integrity Unit. The tests are run independently, no advance notice. Over a 2 month stretch, he went through 25 drug tests.

There's always a doubt. There has to be given what we know. Hopefully there's transparency in the results. But hats off to Sawe for addressing it:

"I want to prove that I am clean when I set foot at the start line."

But how'd we actually get here where two guys went sub 2 in the same race?

1. Shoe tech

We've had a revolution in shoe technology that boosts running economy.

For years shoe companies said their shoe would make you faster and was mostly marketing. Until 2016, when it actually did.

Initial research showed a 3-4% saving in economy, while subsequent work has shown it's highly variable.

Now, it's a matching game. Find the perfect shoe for your form and you can get a big boost.

Normally, it takes years of lots of miles and strength training to boost economy.

But now we get that instant boost that not only helps boost performance but often leaves us feeling less beat up in the later stages of the marathon.

So we get a little bit less hitting of the wall...

2. The fuel

For a long time, fueling was limited by biology. You can only take in and process so much.

Then in the 2000s, researchers found if we mixed sugars, we can boost intake because they're processed differently.

Then recently, Maurten found if you use a hydrxogel, you boost utilization without GI distress anymore.

We've gone from pushing 60g/hr to 120g/hr in a few decades.

Again...less bonking.

3. Depth

A few decades ago, you spent your career racing on the track and then once your speed started to fade a bit you went to the marathon.

Now, many skip right to the marathon. That's where the money is.

And with the economy boost from the shoes, you can make that jump quickly.

More depth of talent means more competitors in their prime pushing barriers.

4. Belief

Even with the shoes and tech, a few years ago sub 2 hours seemed a long way off, until Kipchoge pushed that barrier in a series of time trials.

Yes, they weren't official races and had contrived pacing. But it absolutely shifted everyone's thinking on what is possible.

A generation of runners saw Kipchoge go for it.

Our prediction of what is possible changed.

It's mind blowing how far we've come in such a short time.

What once seemed decades away, just got smashed twice in the same race.

Hats off to Sawe, especially for addressing the scourge of doping and showing folks what is possible with a lot of hard work, some crazy belief, and some fortuitous advances.

[Mary Motlagae Mutlanyane @motlagaemushi]

3 days later, I’m still in disbelief. I am an Ironman; after a 3,8km swim 🏊🏾‍♀️ a 180km cycling 🚴🏾‍♀️ and a marathon 42,2km run 🏃🏽‍♀️

#FetchYourBody2026
#RunningWithTumiSole
#RunningWithSoleAC

[Choaro Losabe @closabe]

@DODO_MASONDO I miss 'WAR times on this app, @ZA_EL_Contador

[Mbongiseni Mbatha @Mbatha10]

My training plan that got me a PB at Two Oceans 4:54:44 now we make changes as we build up to comrades

[iG The Clergyman @iGodfrey4CE]

Influencers know very well that runners are gullible. This is how they roll, run a sub 3 for a marathon, get a silver medal for comrades, then they’re ready to sell you the so called “program” and many of you fall for this nonsense.

[granny kgomongwe @grannykgomongw]

@JoyChauke5 @GaytonMcK @MinisterMcK @SportArtsCultur You can’t be the only fan in the country, minister just rotate fans and stop being entitled

[Xola Nqola🇿🇦 @Xola_Nqola]

I’m sure there by the City of Cape Town there is already a township called “ Strait of Hormuz”.