{"id":17885,"date":"2013-02-08T13:06:28","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T11:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/midmar-mile-in-the-game-of-charity\/"},"modified":"2013-02-08T13:06:28","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T11:06:28","slug":"midmar-mile-in-the-game-of-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/midmar-mile-in-the-game-of-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Midmar Mile in the game of charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/midmar-mile-in-the-game-of-charity\/midmar-mile-game-lr\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1741\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1741\" alt=\"Game Stores employees have been swimming the Midmar Mile for over a decade in aid of charity. Photo: Gameplan Media\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/0f94f_Midmar-Mile-Game-LR.jpg\" width=\"388\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Game Stores employees have been swimming the Midmar Mile for over a decade in aid of charity. Photo: Gameplan Media<\/p>\n<p>Pietermaritzburg \u2013 The aQuell\u00e9 Midmar Mile has, over the course of 40 years, become a fantastic vehicle for fundraising.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s big fundraising drives include those by the Eight Mile Club, the Pink Drive and Game Stores, which has been doing its corporate social investment bit for 11 years.<\/p>\n<p>Shelley Kreinacke, PR and Corporate Social Investment (CSI) Manager for Game, puts together a big team each year for the Midmar Mile.<\/p>\n<p>She says the company\u2019s participation began with a challenge to its employees. \u201cWe put out a challenge to employees, saying if you can finish the race we will donate a thousand rand (for each of you) to the Community Chest on your behalf,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>One of the Game swimmers, who has swum in the Midmar Mile for every one of those 11 years, is Massmart CEO Grant Pattison.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPersonally, it means healthy living,\u201d he said. \u201cI always like to tell people a single event a year gets you focused and training. It\u2019s almost like a nice reset and check on your fitness levels. I\u2019ve always loved swimming. I think it\u2019s a very healthy sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJokingly, I\u2019ve also said the pressure of getting fit has more to do with getting into a Speedo with 200 of your closest colleagues,\u201d he laughed. \u201cOne\u2019s time also plays a factor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The aQuell\u00e9 Midmar Mile takes place on February 9 and 10 at the Midmar Dam just outside Howick in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game Stores employees have been swimming the Midmar Mile for over a decade in aid of charity. Photo: Gameplan Media Pietermaritzburg \u2013 The aQuell\u00e9 Midmar Mile has, over the course of 40 years, become a fantastic vehicle for fundraising. This year\u2019s big fundraising drives include those by the Eight Mile Club, the Pink Drive and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-17885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}