IRONBRIAN 2011

IRONBRIAN is back!

To leave a sporting legacy in 2010, Brian took part in IRONMAN South Africa and raised R324,000 for the building of a multi-purpose sports facility. The facility was awarded to rural community Hhoyi, in Mpumalanga, the winner of the 2010 Cup of Heroes competition. This year Brian aims to raise R80,00 for the winning team from Cup of Heroes to attend an environmental awareness and leadership camp, a unique opportunity for the team to expereince life skills learning in the wilderness.  

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Fund'racing' for SCORE

Motivation for competing in a sports event can be driven by anything from achieving personal goals to testing physical endurance. For Brian Kerby, Managing Director of adidas South Africa, the chance to share with others the opportunities that sport has given him, spurred him on to complete a gruelling 226 km Ironman triathlon race to raise funds for SCORE to build a multi-purpose community sports facility.

After visiting a community facility in Khayelitsha, on the outskirts of Cape Town in the Western Cape, which had been build in partnership with SCORE and adidas, Brian witnessed first hand the positive impact a sports facility can have on a community. He saw that the children in the community were provided with a safe environment in which to learn, interact and play with others. In addition it also encouraged children from the surrounding areas to be involved in organised sporting activities.

Sport remains an important part of Brian’s life and he said, "The wonderful people I have met; the successes on the field; my health; my fantastic job; the skills I use today; all these I owe to sport and it remains an integral part of my life."

Brian described his fundraising effort on behalf of SCORE as an incredible journey, which saw him dedicate months of hard work to training and fundraising.

After the race, Brian said, "It was hard work to get here and a huge feeling of relief, satisfaction and achievement. It has been a tough five weeks, where things didn’t go so smoothly. I am therefore very proud to have achieved a time of sub 12 hours." Despite injuries in the weeks prior to the race, Brain earned a respectable finish time of 11.56.06.

On the day of the event spectators were reminded that these powerful athletes are heroes. Dedicating endless hours to training despite juggling full time jobs, families and for many competitors, like Brian, fundraising for charity.

For Brian, the end of IRONMAN does not mark the end of his race. With over a third of his target complete, Brian said, "The drive to reach my fundraising target is still ongoing and I won’t stop until we hit the magical R324 000 mark. At the end of the day I’m really chuffed but I’ll be more chuffed when the guys start paying. They know what I’ve done now, and now they must do something."

Brian’s efforts on behalf of SCORE are truly admirable and SCORE would like to thank Brian for his continued support and for his superhuman effort to help us Change Lives through Sport.

You can follow the story of Brian’s fundraising journey and support his fundraising initiative at www.ironbrian.org

(PUBLISHED APRIL 2010)