MY
Message from W
hat a year it has been since we held our first ever Virtual Challenge. In 2020, we found ourselves in the grip of a global crisis that we could not have imagined possible. And at the time, the thought that we would still be fighting against the Covid-19 pandemic was just as unimaginable – and yet, here we are! As tough as it has been, we cannot deny that we have all had an unprecedented opportunity to find out what we are really made of. The incredible fortitude our country has shown over the last 18 months was the inspiration for the 2021 SPAR Women’s Virtual Challenge and its theme, #LiveLimitless. This year’s challenge celebrates the ways in which we have challenged, and in some cases broken down, the limits that lived in our minds before the pandemic. #LiveLimitless is calling on all South Africans to put on their running shoes once again and come together virtually to be part of a nationwide event that’s breaking borders and redefining limits!
Alison Zweers
Charlene Subbarayan
MANAGING DIRECTOR
EVENTS AND SPONSORSHIP CONTROLLER
What seemed impossible to us before has now become daily life. Working from home and caring for our children at the same time? Impossible before, and now an average day. Making deals and holding meetings online? A strange and unknown concept that we now take in our stride! What further proof could you need to show that limitations are purely mental, and how living without limits is truly possible.
We have all felt alone in this at some point. Working from home unable to see colleagues every day, restrictions on seeing friends – and then for many people unable to travel to see family. This took its toll, but amazingly we all found ourselves adjusting and finding the strength to move forward despite the emotional toll this has taken. So, this year, SPAR has once again found a way to unite tens of thousands of people. We’ve gone limitless and opened the SPAR Women’s Virtual Challenge up to the whole country. We can’t all be together in one place, and yes – you’ll be running or walking on your own, but you don’t have to FEEL alone and that is what makes all the difference.
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2021 • MY VIRTUAL CHALLENGE MAGAZINE
Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.
