{"id":123725,"date":"2016-06-02T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/123725\/mayor-makes-it-to-the-finish-line\/"},"modified":"2016-06-03T09:43:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T07:43:58","slug":"mayor-makes-it-to-the-finish-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2016\/06\/02\/mayor-makes-it-to-the-finish-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor makes it to the finish line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ekurhuleni\u2019s executive mayor Clr Mondli Gungubele is over the moon after maintaining his 100 per cent record in the Comrades Marathon.<\/p>\n<p>Gungubele managed to finish this year\u2019s edition of the Comrades, last Sunday, with seven minutes to spare before the cut off time of 12 hours.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI am quite excited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a tough race and as I was approaching Durban all I could think of was another medal.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI had a niggling knee injury coming into this race and I was worried about it bothering me as I ran, but fortunately there was very little discomfort.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am just over the moon for having achieved seven medals out of seven races,\u201d said an elated Gungubele upon finishing the race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are runners who have participated in this marathon more than 10 times yet could not get as many medals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I am fortunate for this hundred per cent record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gungubele said he will soon be starting preparations for next year\u2019s race because he plans to run the Comrades as long as he feels strong enough.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/122312\/callies-runners-head-to-the-comrades\/\" target=\"_blank\">Callies runners head to the Comrades<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/122034\/acting-station-commander-wishes-runners-well\/\" target=\"_blank\">Acting station commander wishes runners well<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='af6579b96252e2f1352b9fb1e3d08233'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ekurhuleni\u2019s executive mayor Clr Mondli Gungubele takes on the Comrades Marathon for the seventh time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":123726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[1003,979,969,11222,1009,2734,1002,2345,1119],"class_list":["post-123725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-marathon-running","tag-mayor","tag-melissa-hart","tag-metro","tag-running","tag-sport-2"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["Ekurhuleni","germiston","germiston city news","marathon running","mayor","melissa hart","metro","running","sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}