{"id":4669,"date":"2013-03-25T09:38:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T08:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/?p=4669"},"modified":"2013-03-25T09:38:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T08:38:57","slug":"cape-town-medical-10-running-race-for-health-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2013\/03\/25\/cape-town-medical-10-running-race-for-health-professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town Medical 10, running race for health professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4671\" alt=\"Hennie Muller and grandson\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2013\/03\/Hennie-Muller-and-grandson-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080\"><em>Letter to the Editor<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The 35<sup>th<\/sup> staging of the Medical 10 will take place in Cape Town, South Africa, in November 2013. It is a 10 kilometre running race for health professionals. The race started in 1978 after a physician, Hennie Muller (shown in the photo with his grandson), discovered that the doctors in Finland held a 10 kilometer race to show that they practiced what the preached about a healthy lifestyle. The aim was to run it in 40 minutes but allowed a handicap of a minute for each year of age over 40.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Race organizers cut the handicap to half a minute and made it open to all health professionals and walkers, however, the event continues to be held annually at the end of November.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Is this race still held in Finland? Or are similar events held in any other country? I am interested to know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Please contact me at:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:sydneyc@surgcare.co.za\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">sydneyc@surgcare.co.za<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Yours sincerely,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Sydney Cullis (Race Director)<\/span><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter to the Editor The 35th staging of the Medical 10 will take place in Cape Town, South Africa, in November 2013. It is a 10 kilometre running race for health professionals. The race started in 1978 after a physician, Hennie Muller (shown in the photo with his grandson), discovered that the doctors in Finland [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2013\/03\/25\/cape-town-medical-10-running-race-for-health-professionals\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1105,1,373,2402],"tags":[8265],"class_list":["post-4669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-letters","category-uncategorized","category-letter-to-the-editor","category-light-hearted-for-some","tag-letter-to-the-editor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}