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Welcome
to the 'background information of Cassandra Davis, Time-to-Run's
head of the women's section. |
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Cassandra Davis was born in the Netherlands, but was raised
in Cape Town, where she went to school and graduated from
the University of Cape Town in 1981.
Cassandra is an accomplished marathon runner with a decade
of international marathon wins. She won two national marathon
titles in consecutive years, taking first the South African
marathon title in 1986 and then, after immigrating to France
and gaining French nationality, she won the French national
marathon championship title in 1987.
She has run for the French team and represented France at
international level in distances from 3000 meters on the track
to the marathon (42.2 km) distance.
Being unable to repeat the performances she achieved 10
years ago at the marathon distance, she now seeks new challenges
and motivation in the longer distance adventure runs. When
asked the question why she needs to seek out new challenges
after having such a career already behind her, she said: “In
long distance races no matter how fit the athlete, the point
is reached where fatigue drives each runner back into themselves;
into the secluded parts of the soul which are discovered only
under times of duress; and from which one emerges with a clearer
perspective of the people we truly are, each time for me it
is a new learning experience”
Cassandra is also a full-time mother and lives in Paris with
her husband who works full-time for the French N° 1 athletic
club, C.A. Montreuil. She holds a full-time job at the OECD,
and at weekends she often interprets at some of the French
international road races. She also coaches athletes by email.
In September 2000 she was badly injured in a car accident;
cracking several vertebrae, for awhile she struggled to walk
let alone run. However, she was soon back running again, only
to discover that the nausea and amenorreah she was experiencing
were not due to the accident and consequent medication, but
that she was four months pregnant with her third child, against
all odds, at 40 years old, with an IUD.
Annoyed with people telling her that her running career was
over and that she should take it easy for the rest of her
pregnancy, as with her previous pregnancies, she ran up until
the day her baby was born. This inspired her to research and
write a book on the subject of pregnancy and exercise. To
this end she began by placing a survey on the web to which
she received an overwhelming response. She aims hopes to have
her book published later in 2002.
Besides running she enjoys cinema, visiting art exhibitions,
doing some African-inspired craft work and reading.
We welcome Cassandra to the pages of Time-to-Run
and are proud to have a woman of her stature join our ranks.
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