Dr Caroline Pule, MScMedSc, PhD
@CarolinePule
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GOD1st| Postdoc Scientist| NIH-US Gov| TB & Genomics| STD TopWoman| M&G200Young| Ambassador_SANTA| Public Speaker| Athlete| CEO:https://t.co/qVRol6exiZ |📍🇿🇦 living in 🇺🇸
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Joined April 2010
#PassionateMedicalScientist👩🏼🔬💊❤️ Up & back again in the medical research lab doing experiments on pulmonary Tuberculosis (TB) in BSL-3 lab, happy at peace driven by passion & believing all this will lead to something better, that could save someone’s life one day. 🙏(Thread 1/3)
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"YES! WE DID IT GOD! 4TH-DEGREE! 💜😭🙏 I'm a fully "Certified Doctor Caroline Pule! Passed my PhD Oral Exam with flying colours & was encouraged to publish my work! Cheers to new season! Road to Prof Pule!💪🏻.“Never give up in your dreams, they are valid! Fight for them” -Dr CP😇
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Yasss! 🏃♀️🥇🔥🤩❤️ 3rd #Comrades2023 done & dusted in 9:55:55🥹, Yes sub10h finally, new PB😭 improved by 21 min from last year’s B2B from Bronze Medal to now🥺💪💛Robert Motshali medal! But it wasn’t easy, really Super proud k over the moon, as I fought for sub10h😅. Thread (1/3)
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A RED GOWN GRADUATION BECOMING REALITY🔜👩🎓❤️😇. Finally, my PhD graduation date is set for late summer & my 2 min walk of fame in thee special “RED GOWN”😭The day I envisioned yrs ago as young girl fresh out of high school, just as I started my Undergrad Degree! God made a way!🙏
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Yasss We did God!🏃♀️❤️💪🏻🥹I finished @ComradesRace 90km 10:17:41s, improved PB 1h14min! From 2019 11:31min,Vic Clapham to Bronze Medal 😭, got my back2back medal🥇🥇God is really good as I accidentally fell at 5km,I was bleeding & he made my knee strong till finish. #Comrades2022
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💁🏼♀️🏃♀️💙 Finally, Off we go to Durban 🛫 for #ComradesMarathon loading and thanking God for making it possible once again this year. For the love of running and living life to the fullest. By Grace!! ✝️🙏😇. #ASICSFrontRunner
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YES WE DID IT GOD! I’M A CERTIFIED PhD HOLDER📃🥺📌My Doctorate Degree certificate! Best surprise delivery ever💙🙏So speechless with only 3 words in mind “THANK YOU GOD” I’m Grateful & waiting for summer graduation to walk my 2 min of Fame,Confident!🙂👩🏼🎓👩🏼🔬.“NEVER STOP DREAMING!”
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#InTheLifeOfAMedicalScientist👩🏼🔬🧬💊🦠❤️ I’m Dr Caroline Pule, a passionate Medical Scientist/evolving postdoc researcher with a PhD in Medical Sciences (Molecular Biology) who is passionate about medical research, global health and ensuring we have a disease free nation.Thread 1.
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1. Yasss🔥, DR CP did it again!!😍😭4th #Comrades2024 completed at 10:52:30s Bronze Medal🥉🏃♀️❤️❤️😊 for an Up Run, like I’m super proud and so emotional right now!!😭 My first ever Up-Run was 11h33m and I really prayed for sub 11h as upruns are tough for me and it happened!!…
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When women support each other, incredible things happen!💡💜.💎.It’s been such a blessing to be supported & work closely to such powerful yet humble woman such as Prof @MrsMaswime & Prof Kgethi Phakeng @FabAcademic Grateful🙏 They continue to inspire & motivate me! .#WonderWoman
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Surprised!😭🏃♀️❤️My improvement! 5km in 23:37s and a pace of 4:41 min/km😳🙏 PB elevation, This morning my body, mind & soul proved to me that hard work combined with passion pays off, YOU CAN DO IT!💪🏻Being fast is hard & last km was a fight to complete! At 5km I cried! #Limitless
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Yasss🔥CP!💪🏻 I did it! 😭🏃♀️💜 PB record! Ran half-marathon in 1:51:22s none stop! & pace 5:16/km under sub2h. Better than my expectations! Running Miracles do happen, thank you God🙏 Mates who supported! So happy😳😊#ASICSFrontRunner #happybirthdaytumisole.#RunningWithTumiSole
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GOD SAID YES TO MY AMERICAN DREAM!🇺🇸❤️💙😭🥹 I’m so humbled, happy & intears of joy & gratitude to God for his favour upon my life! God made a miraculous way when I least expected it & Washington DC,see you soon. He opened a door for me for a research dream job appointment. (1/6)
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#MotivationMonday💜.“I wish more women realized that helping another woman win, sharing a resource with her, does NOT take away from the blessings coming to them. More you give, the more you receive. Empowering women doesn’t come from selfishness, but from selflessness.”-S.Kinder
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#PassionateRunner 🏃♀️💙🖤🩵.“Running is not just an exercise; it’s a way of life. And it’s not about how fast you go, but how far you’re willing to push yourself. It is the best way to remind ourselves that we are alive, capable, and free.” — JS, DK ✨. #ASICSFrontRunner #CapeTown
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God is really Good! 😭🏃♀️❤️ I got a PB guys from 6:09 to 5:42 min. I can’t stop crying, tears of joy! Lol 🥺😭This is crazy awesome, given all that I have been through the past few weeks with the car accident & missing training, I’m so happy! Will share pics and reflection later🙏
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#SBTopWomenAwards 💃🏻💃🏻 Up and Close chat with the most inspiring and influential Queen B💛🌸🤩 @Bonang thank you for sparing a moment of your time to listen & being so nice to me, gracefully. I was so blown away by your humility & kindness🥹🙏You are amazing and God bless you!😇
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Soldier on!💪🏻🔥🏃♀️30km in 2:53:47s with 5:47min\km pace and 431m elevation🤩💁🏻♀️Huge improvement! 30km PB!💜under 2:54min, unexpected! Regardless of some light rain that caught me while I was half way, I still managed to pull through! VO2max 48 finally hit the Superior mark. God!🙏
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8km run, 47:40s, 5:57/km.🏃♀️🩷❤️Finally I showed up; went for my first run in a longgg time and now the journey to getting my fitness back it’s on. As per Bingham’s quote; “the miracle isn’t that I finished; but rather that I had the courage to start. For the love of running.😎✨
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Yasss!🏃♀️💜💪🏻😭😊I did it! Ran 10km under 1h, 56:50 min. My VO2 max improved to 47 mL/kg/min. Thank you God!This run was so emotional as I kept pushing myself harder when I faced a hill!I slaved through it! I was literally running against PACE! Super proud! Wow! #ASICSFrontRunner
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UpHill Run 🏃♀️💜😎10km, 48:31s, pace 4:50/km, elev. gain 182m! 😎I was a bit nervous as it was first uphill this year. The first 3km it was tough but I kept running? ignored the pain & then it got better! Last 2km was a down hill, recovered & finished strong💪🏻 #RunningWithTumiSole
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#PassionteRunner🏃♀️❤️ Victorious!!🔥🥹4TH @ComradesRace Up-Run done 10:52:30s💪, Bronze Medal🥉🥹😊. My 2nd Up-Run (1st was 2019, as Novice & finished 11:30:33s) & 2024 Up-Run was to improve from Vic to Bronze! it happened! So happy & my love for running elevated!💛 #Comrades2024
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Yasss! Dr CP🏃♀️🔥Victorious reached the finish-line on high note!💪😎, Oh my word, I LOVE RUNNING!❤️😍😭, My 5th @2OceansMarathon 2024 done & dusted in 6h05 and this was better than last years, and regaining my confidence again & God continuously remind me how strong…(Thread 1/4)
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DAY 15:🥹💃🏻💁🏼♀️🏃♀️🧡15km Final Run done!💪 (1h27m; 5:49/km). YASSS!🔥 Thank you God, We did it with 225km distance & 2435m elev. everyday for 15 days. Like for real, what a challenge. I finished what I started! KEPT SHOWING UP”!🙏😇 “Thread”👇. #RunWithCP #GOALS.#RunningWithTumiSole
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Yasss!🥇🏃♀️💙 @CTMarathon dusted at 4h05, PB at last improved by 21m🔥😭 & finally redeemed myself from last year 4h36 when plans did go well. Super proud & thanks to ASICS MetaSpeed Sky, best shoes to run in. I can’t wait to to share images📸 later. Well done to all who ran.😇
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1. This is it✈️🥹🤩 America🇺🇸🇿🇦, Washington, DC here we come.❤️💙The moment we have been waiting for has arrived! 🙏🥹Yet I didn’t realise how emotional and heartfelt it would be when it hit me hard that I’m really leaving Cape Town, SA🇿🇦 and moving to start working overseas. 1/3
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#PassionateRunner 🏃♀️❤️💪 6km run, last Easy Leg loosener, talk about transitioning from being a scientist👩🏼🔬 to a runner 🏃♀️😊. Thank God & mixed emotions for this coming weekend🤩😳😬. My love for running is going to be tested & having loved ones & God behind me is everything.🙏😇
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Yasss!🏅🏃♀️❤️ Pretoria 21.1km Half-Marathon 2022 done & dusted!😊💪🏻Oh my word,what a great race with such beautiful route😱, tons of challenging hills & beautiful views from the Klapperkop Nature Reserve uphill. I really enjoyed myself & I love running too much!#ASICSFronfRunnerZA
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Soldier On!💥She is improving!💪🏻🏃♀️💜 5km,21:39s, 4.19/km. After so many attempts & not making it! This morning unexpected, I did it! PB 😃💃🏻 God!🙏 & learned “It doesn’t matter how many times we try fail. But that we don’t give up trying again until we I win! #RunningWithTumiSole
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Moderate uphill recovery run!🏃♀️💪🏻😎💜12km, 4:55min/km, elev.gain 185m, 59min, V02max 55 mL/kg/min✨Lesson learned “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great!”-Zig Ziglar. So keep trusting the process & moving forward! #WonderWoman #RunningWithTumiSole
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Unstoppable!🔥🏃♀️😭21.3km dusted in 2:03:39s with 5:48min/km pace. I’m progressing! 💪🏻❤️ So proud! TheUltimateVirtualRace Thanks to #RaceTheComradesLegends 2010 for uniting runners virtually! I was running in support for 🇿🇦 to win #covid19 battle #IamMyOwnLegend #ChallengeALegend
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She is on fire!🔥24.1km🏃♀️❤️💪🏻💥359m elevation gain! 6:10s/km! I did so well 😭😁 My long uphill run this morning! I’m super proud! As it was really tough! But thanks to beautiful weather & Oh my word I love running so much!❤️ It calms me and inspires me to do better in life!🏃♀️🙏
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The Power of Persistency! 🏃♀️💥💪🏻❤️ 10km PB boost!😊💃🏻Sunday morning uphill run! 10km,00:51:22s,pace 5:07/km, elev 174m. Improved by -2min33s and close to 50 min mark goal! Thank you God! “I can do all this through him who gives me strength!- Philippians 4:13”🙏#FetchYourBody2020
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🏃♀️Toughest 9km tempo run!😱 Working on my pace & endurance. Maintaining a pace of 4:00-5:00min/km is not easy, moving from running at 5-6:00min/km pace. Lol, it was so hard that my V02max jumped to 53💪🏻& at 7km had to stop for few seconds😫. #ASICSFrontRunner #RunningWithTumiSole
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Yasss! 😭💪🏻🏃♀️❤️In tears of victory! First Comrades Marathon up run 2019 done 11:30:33s. God is good! Nothing can explain this feeling and the support of people in KZN🙏.Thanks to God, my family& friends for support, @ASICS_ZA for the apparel & #Gelnumbus21 . #ASICSFrontRunnerZA
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Yeah!! My first ever 56km Ultra Two Oceans Marathon done and dusted 6:34 min. It was so tough and humbling. But the views were epic and all runners were highly supportive. Going back next year to improve time my time 😃#ASICSFrontRunnerZA #IMOVEME #OMTOM2018 #DynaFlyte #RunAsOne
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DREAM BIG, WORK HARD & TRUST GOD!.🙏👩🔬🎯📕🧬. Yes, this is it, My #PhD Thesis & Dissertation Submission Reflection. I want to Thank God for such a miraculous journey it was and it continues to be as I realize my extraordinary dream (Dr Pule). 4th degree! #NeverGiveUp #Motivation
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About yesterday, Yasss!🏃♀️❤️🔥🤩💪🏻Two Oceans 56km Ultra Marathon dusted! 5:42:10s; 5:58/km,626m elev.gain. Improved my PB by 27 min!😭😱From “Blue Medal”, 6h09 in 2019 to a “Bronze Medal”, 5h42 in 2022. I’m so happy & proud of myself, progress is mind blowing.😊#ASICSFrontRunnerZA
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Astonished!🏃♀️10km in 53:55s😭💪🏻 pace of 5:21min/km & 141m elevation! PB!❤️ Wow! Thanks to pushing harder running uphills. It can’t get better than this!What was meant to be my recovery run happened to be my PB improvement, running 10km under 54min. God!🙏 #ASICSFrontRunnerZA #Run
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So over the moon😊🏃♀️❤️#WonderWoman 10km virtual race dusted on a high note PR💥😱😭45:31s,pace 4:33/km Against all the odds of rainy,cold & windy CT weather! The hardest run but worth the fight💪🏻.#GelCumulus22.#VirtualHeroes20.#JLRunSeries20.#RunningWithTumiSole.#ASICSFrontRunner
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Finally! Yasss, I did it!😁🏃♀️❤️21.2km #LockdownSA Half-Marathon dusted in 2:13:54s this morning!Lots of up hills but survived & I enjoyed the run. Proud! Thanking God I reached my goal!🙏😇I can now do my work peacefully! Next goal, 21.1km time to be under 2h!💪🏻 #ASICSFrontRunner
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All about speed!💪🏻🏃♀️💥 5km, 3:51min/km laps: 1km warmup, 4km sprint repeats (350m x2 +400m x1 to make 1km) with 1min rest/jog in between! Like M.Hamm says “I am building a fire,& everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.🔥#RunningWithTumiSole
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The grinding continues!🏃♀️💪🏻😎Uphill & endurance training run! 15km, pace 4:47min/km, elev. 173m! My body was challenged but my Mind reminded me of my goal! To improve my pace for uphill run,this made me to keep going! I’m really work in progress! #RunningWithTumiSole.#WonderWoman
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Yasss!🏃♀️🔥Against all odds,She can still Run & finish was she started! @CTMarathon dusted!official time 4:36min💪🏻. Not my best BUT I’m happy & still proud of myself to finish smiling😊,WOW close to the finish soldiering on & people cheering “U can do it Doc”! I LOVE RUNNING❤️🥹:
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Power!💪🏻🏃♀️💥😎 5km in 22:15s pace 4.26/km! Not there yet but getting closer! I missed my 5km sub22 by 15s, it got hard! I had to stop drink water & lost time😭. I was so broken when I checked my Garmin! 15s counts, anyway I will be back💪🏻 #RunningWithTumiSole #FetchYourBody2020
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#PassionateRunner #FitnessFanatic 🏃♀️🏋🏼♀️🧡 “The body achieves what the mind believes.”-NH✨ “ A Sound Mind in a Sound Body. #MoveYourMind with ASICS!! 💪😎. #asicsfrontrunner #roadrunning #RunWithCP #soundmindsoundbody #CapeTown #limitless #WonderWoman
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#PassionateRunner🏃♀️💙 Yass! She can run💪So the body, mind & soul said yes! And 21.1km Half-Marathon run, 1h51, pace 5:17/km happened, just like that!🔥😎Thank you God, it’s been in me & will always stay in me, the passion for running!🙏😇. #ASICSFrontRunner.#RunningWithTumiSole
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Yeah! #ctmarathon2019 done & dusted! 4:31:30s Super happy😁💜🏃♀️but could done better time as anticipated. I had cramps few kms after halfway but managed to pull myself back on the race!💪🏻 I’m so proud of my time improvement from 2017:4:37, 4:40 and 2019: 4:31min #ASICSFrontRunner
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Let’s just say I had a great day! And highlights will follow. Thank you God! Needed this.🏃♀️🇭🇺❤️😎✨
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IT CAN BE POSSIBLE, IF BELIEVE! #ComradesMarathon Reflection!🏃♀️😍.I’m still on cloud 9 & lol😊 it hasn’t sank in deeply I just completed the Ultimate Human Race in 9h55. The improvement has been remarkable From 2019: Vic Champ Medal, 2022: Bronze Medal & 2023: Robert Mtshali🥹🙏
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🏃♀️❤️One of my unforgettable highlights of my @comradesmarathon 2022.Being awarded the bronze medal!🥇🥹😊Knowing we have finished the race against all odds, after 2 years of waiting. Indeed! “You never know how strong you are, until being strong is the only choice you have"-B.M✨
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#WonderWoman this early morning for 🏃♀️😊❤️Race the comrades Legends 2020! 21.1km ready and on the move! Amazing to see the roads filled by runners in their club colors Wait until I share my time in few hrs😁impressive! #RaceTheComradesLegends .#ComradesMarathon .#ASICSFrontRunner
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#PassionateRunner 🏃♀️💙 “There is something magical about running; after a certain distance, it transcends the body. Then a bit further, it transcends the mind. A bit further yet, and what you have before you, laid bare, is the soul.” –K. Armstrong✨. #RunWithCP #dcrunning #runner
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She ran!🏃♀️💜😊15km,01:10:59, 4:44/km Guess who finally squeezed a run in her hectic busy work schedule!🤩🏃♀️❤️nice strong run & feeling super good! Reminded of Aristotle’s words that “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”.#RunningWithTumiSole
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About hectic morning uphill run!😊💜🏃♀️11km, 59:32s at 5:24min/km pace, 185m elevation gain. Conquering the fear of running hills at zone 4 heart rate & 5:30-5:45min/km pace. You are a force to be reckoned with! Don’t give up, pain is temporary. Keep Moving!💪🏻🏃♀️#ASICSFrontRunnerZA
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🏃♀️💪🏻Hilly Long Slow Distance (LSD) 18km Run! Pace 5:25/km, Elev. gain 243m😎to boost my endurance & improve cardiovascular function for long runs.LSD is not easy once you are used to running fast!😱 Thanks to my Garmin,I maintained the pace. #RunningWithTumiSole #ASICSFrontRunner
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THANK YOU God!🥺🙏Grace I finished my 4th @2OceansMarathon 56km Ultra in 6h08🏃♀️💙💪 I don’t know how I feel though, whether I’m happy for finishing or just being okay😭🙏& had to really let go of chasing my PB along the way but finishing the race okay. As I had an emotional race.
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🏃♀️💛💙 Post #Comrades2023 effect!😎 When you are all cleaned up and all is gradually getting back to normal and it hits you hard💥 when you realise that you just ran the whole day, from Pietermaritzberg to Durban!😱 Reality! emotional smile and happiness😊🥹. Yep, …
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🏃♀️💙14km moderate run,pace 5:22/km.💪Thank God I SHOWED UP for this run🥹as after work I was so tired & having to navigate traffic to my running spot.I literally willed myself to run!😅.🏃♀️This run taught me a lesson that one needs to Keep Showing Up even on those days your body.
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Finally I’m doing Soweto Marathon! I get to experience Soweto! Wow! #Madiba 🇿🇦😁.Oh my word! I love running!💜🏃♀️😅🤣 #sowetomarathon2019
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🏃♀️❤️😭😭🔥5km in 24:47s run and 4:55min/km I’m over the moon!😁 @versussocks 5km virtual race done and dusted! Super happy and proud of you CP!😭 You got to be a runner to understand how I’m feeling right now! Wow! God is good!✨💥 God!🙏 #Limitless #WonderWoman #ASICSFrontRunner
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#MotivationMonday💎🩵🦋.“Just believe in yourself; Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream, you are born for greatness and for a purpose. And yes, it means even if you are thrown to the wolves and you will come back leading the pack.” – O Winfrey, C Pule, A. Nyms✨
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THE POWER OF RUNNING🏃♀️❤️😎.“I always loved running…it something you could do under your own power; going in any direction, fast/slow as you wanted, fighting the rain, wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet the courage of your lungs.-JO
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🏃♀️💛🖤💁🏼♀️🤩Thanking my family and friends for tons of supportive and encouraging messages.🙏😇And Had a great time @ComradesRace Expo and saw familiar faces, just saying Doc. 😅 Thank God & time for resting, tomorrow it’s the big day. All the best to those who are running!🙌…
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Last year! 🏃♀️🙏 9th June 2019 At the finish line of “Comrades Marathon, the ultimate human race”💜✨The day I learned & realized how strong I am both physically & mentally!I have a fighting spirit no matter what I face as one needed to fully motivated complete this humbling race.
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My New Home!💁🏼♀️🗝️🥹😭❤️ Finally, it’s moving day into my new big beautiful apartment in a luxurious estate & safe affluent suburban ❤️🏠🌳And now it’s fully done, I’m a United States resident!🇺🇸🥺Look at the grace of God, from a dream possibility to a reality!😭 #TheAmericanDream
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🏃♀️⛰️Yasss Mense I made it! Super Proud!😭😍🤩I can officially call myself TABLE MOUNTAIN BEAST!💚🔥💪Finished TMB 50km ULTRA, the toughest yet epic Trail race still smiling running!😎. 🏃♀️🌲And for the first time, had to learn to navigate my way up the mountain trail routes!🏃♀️🏃♀️
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🏃♀️❤️💪🏻10km, 45min, 4:30/km✨.“I run because it’s so symbolic of life. You have to drive yourself to overcome the obstacles. You might feel that you can’t. But then you find your inner strength & realize you’re capable of so much more than you thought.—A.Blank.#RunningWithTumiSole
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Power up!💥🏃♀️😎 She is getting stronger💪🏻16km in 1:25:47s, 5:21 min/km. With every run it just get better! And I’m reminded that I’m my own competition,I’m slowly improving & learning that my body can stand almost anything & is my mind that I have to convince. #ASICSFrontRunnerZA
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Thank you @ASICS_ZA 😍❤️😊 for the beautiful ASICS road running and trail running shoes drop! (late post) 🤩💙 Much appreciated and I’m so grateful. And can’t wait to unbox and clock those miles both on the road and trails! 😎 For the love of running! 🏃♀️💙 #ASICSFrontRunnerZA
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KEEP RUNNING!🏃♀️🔥💙 “Running is the best way to remind ourselves that we are alive, capable, and free.”–D. K✨ .#soundmindsoundbody . #ASICSFrontRunner #Limitless #Runner
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#PassionateRunner🏃♀️❤️Moderate 10km Run!Finding my way back into running training slowly & working on my fitness levels mixing road/treadmill. “Running is greatest metaphor for life as you get out of it what you put into it. Ask yourself, Can I give more? Answer is usually Yes!”✨
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🏃♀️💙4th #TTOM23 56km Ultra Reflection:Above all I went through still crossed the finish-line SMILING, teary upon check up but grateful. In few words…“I’m so proud of this Human Being! Dr CP 🥹😊❤️She is a fighter, #WonderWoman Indeed!🔥💪Against all the odds she pulled through”.
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About yesterday,🏃♀️❤️So yes! I managed to squeeze a Medihelp 10km run🤩 after hectic working hours, thanks to a colleague for insisting we register. Challenge was that, at the finish I felt like continuing to run🙈😅 & I guess blame it on being addicted to long distance running.😎
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Ready, Steady & Go!🔥🏃♀️❤️It all comes to this, 5th @2OceansMarathon 56km Ultra Race!💪 Race! Living this one all in God’s hand & have the best time on the road as I have reached half mark of 10 ultras races goal. Will do my best but take it easy. God let’s do this with passion!😎
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Dr CP, the runner! 😍🏃♀️❤️💙 Proud of this human being! That’s a wrap! And thanking God that I had the best #capetownmarathon @CTMarathon race and next month back to trail running, the mountains for the final race @utct 35km Cape Town Ultra Trail! 🔥⛰️😎✨
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🏃♀️😎💜💪🏻Testing the waters before my special #WonderWoman virtual race with leg loosener 11km run, after a long rest! And it wasn’t that bad looking at the pace 5min/km😁👌🏻 I’m happy, it seems I still got the power💥and I’m ready! Will see!😅#ASICSFrontRunner.#RunningWithTumiSole
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#MEDALMONDAY🏅🤩🥹🔥🧡❤️.Just 4 words!! 🏃♀️💙 I am Happy, Proud & Content! @2OceansMarathon #TTOM24 Still stoked and super motivated for next upcoming ultimate human race! @ComradesRace ! Indeed God is good.🙏😇. #MoveYourMind #TTOM2024.#soundmindsoundbody
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*GOD IS INCONTROL*🙏😇👩🔬 .My appointment as Biomedical Scientist in the Division of Global Surgery in their research cluster at UCT It’s official. I’m truly honored that I will be mentored by renowned Scientists and I hope my contribution will be of good value! 🙏.#WomenInScience
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#PassionateRunner 🏃♀️❤️⛰️🌲🌿 .“I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.” — Psalm 121:1-2🙏😇
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1. Dear God, THANK YOU!🥺🤍✝️🙏😇.Indeed “a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, you don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”-C.V,Z.Z✨What @ComradesRace running journey it has been & improvements per race over the years & continues.
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Training Run:speed session💪🏻🏃♀️💥 4km,3:43/km pace; laps: 4km sprint repeats (350m x2+400m x1 =1km) 1:30s rest in between! Improvement but lol tough thats I did 4km instead of 5km as last rest HR=high. Speed sessions are tough but worthwhile!😎. #WonderWoman .#RunningWithTumiSole
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Oh! Wow🏃♀️😎10km run, 48:56s & 4:53/km. It can’t get better than this, for the love of running!🧡💪🏻. “Never underestimate the power that one good workout can have on your mind. Keeping the dream alive is half the battle.” –K.G✨. #KeepMovingWithCarolinePule.#RunningWithTumiSole
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Ready, Steady and Go! 🏃♀️💛🖤 @comradesmarathon race. God may you take over, be my strength and running this race this you by faith and let’s do this with passion! We got this!! By #psalm23 and #psalm119 🙏😇
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🏃♀️💪🏻10km Run, 48min and 4:43/km!💥 “Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.” — T Noakes!✨running!🧡. #KeepRunningWithCarolinePule.#RunningWithTumiSole
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🏋🏼♀️💪💙 When in doubt, just keep jumping; trust the process.” NK, CP! #SoundMindInSoundBody🔥🫶✨
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Training Run: speed session!💪🏻🏃♀️💥6km laps:1km warm up & 5km sprint repeats (350m x2 + 400m x1 to make 1km) with 1min rest/jog in between! So much improvement compared to 2 weeks ago. Now I get why “never miss speed days”Progress! motivating!😎 .#RunningWithTumiSole .#WonderWoman
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🏃♀️💙POWER OF RUNNING!💡”Running can be multidimensional; It’s freeing yet demanding, energizing yet tiring, fun yet challenging.BUT what fascinates me most about running; it teaches one the power of finishing what they have started. You always come out strong, either by learning,
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Table Mountain Hike via India Venster Trail (21.76km, 1109m). 🥾⛰️🤩💛💚❤️🌿 A long fun social hike, thanks to Simps. Starting from Camps Bay to India Venster trail to the top, Table Mountain Cableway Top detour to Mc Clear’s Beacon and back down via Platteklip Gorge.✨ #CapeTown
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🏃♀️😊💙Recovery Run 6km, 31m & pace 5:11/km. Now that Maxirace is done, we back to CTM training & thanks to @THRESHHoldSA Real MSM tablets supplements for helping to speed up my recovery and for pain free running. Ended up my session with 20 min cardio workout.💪 #ASICSFrontRunner
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Cape Town⛰️❤️✈️, Time to go back & still on cloud 9 with my #Comrades2023 sub10h performance🏃♀️💪🤩 It was also great to see happy runners😎 at the airport check-ins, familiar faces in the Slow lounge & we couldn’t stop reflecting, taking images with our medals🥇😅celebrating!🙏😇
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🏃♀️❤️😊quick 8km, 37:53s, 4:44/km. Running allows me to set my mind free. Nothing seems impossible. Nothing unattainable.” .— Kara Goucher. #Wonderwoman.#ASICSFrontRunnerZA.#RunningWithTumiSole .#FetchYourBody2020 .#Limitless #Fearless.#90DaysWithoutSugar2020
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The power of a runners resilience!🏃♀️❤️🔥”Fall down seven times & get up eight” @ComradesRace Reflection. 🏃♀️As depicted in this image, I experienced it all, when I accidentally fell down at 5km, bad thing to happen when running an Ultra of that caliber “Comrades Marathon”🥺,…
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🏃♀️❤️😎10km run, 50:40s, pace 5:03/km 💪🏻 “Nothing, not even pain, lasts forever. If I can just keep putting one foot in front of the other, I will eventually get to the end." .— Kim Cowart✨. #ASICSFrontRumnerZA.#KeepMovingWithCarolinePule.#RunningWithTumiSole .#WonderWomań
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Cape Town😎⛰️❤️✈️, Time to go back home, still over the moon @ComradesRace 86km Ultra Race finish sub11h🏃♀️🥉💪🤩It was also so great to see happy runners at the airport check-ins with their finishers T-shirts medals😅. And thanks KZN (DBN & PMB) for being so great! #Comrades2024
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Dr CP👩🏼🔬💎 Future Prof CP!😍❤️ First Day going to work with God on my side, NIH-NICHD (HHS) 🇺🇸🧬🥹 and had orientation and lab campus tour, “lots of admin upcoming… and hoping to do my best in all. Going through this week holding on God’s word: Joshua 1:9 🙏😇
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🏃♀️LSD Run, 30km, 2:39:33s, pace 5:19/km and ELEV. GAIN 322 m💪🏻✨💜😎. “When your legs get tired, run with your heart.” — Unknown. #WonderWoman.#ASICSFrontRunnerZA.#RunningWithTumiSole .#FetchYourBody2020.#Limitless #Psalm119 .#90DaysWithoutSugar2020
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🏃♀️❤️ 10km run, 49:31s, pace 4:58 min/km😎 “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” M L King, Jr ✨💪🏻. #ASICSFrontrunner #KeepMovingWithCarolinePule #RunningWithTumiSole
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