Annah Watkinson
I am an athlete, moulded, not born. I choose to be brave, & each day I dare to be great. South African born and bred. Am I in balance and do I balance it all?
From an early age, around 14 years, I started my life thinking I was going to be the next CEO; accountant extraordinaire. I focused all my attention on achieving this goal, however along this journey I have engaged with incredible friends and mentors who have introduced me to many different opportunities. As I stand today, not only am I a career woman and navigating the business world with finesse
14/01/2024
Weekend in pictures 💛
01/12/2023
Post 2 of 2: I persevere at every point of my life to live a good life, to be a good person and to always do the right thing, and as hard as it is I will continue to seek positivity in life. I don't know what lesson I am supposed to learn here - perhaps to have empathy for those navigating situations that seem black and white from the outside? For now, I will continue to throw myself into the sports that I love, even if the joy of competing isn't one that I will experience for another two years.
Annah x
01/12/2023
Post 1 of 2…. Annah x
06/11/2023
A wonderful end to an awesome weekend in the Mother City ❤️
05/11/2023
🐈⬛ & 🍌
04/11/2023
Scenes from this morning’s ride… 🚴
The last three are the best !
27/10/2023
Drinks with the Kona 🐈⬛
06/10/2023
Last run NYC Tourist Style !
04/10/2023
And it shall be called the Tourist Manhattan Marathon…. 🚕🗽🌉🏃🏼♀️
02/10/2023
The Florida life … sunset to sunrise 🌅
01/10/2023
Loving the summer heat in Florida ❤️
29/09/2023
YESSSSS!!!!
27/09/2023
You look good NYC 🚕 !
24/09/2023
A day in the Oval Office ⭕️… was a good day with for all 32kms 800/200 mix
17/09/2023
Running loops around Rondebosch Commons … love this place ❤️
15/09/2023
Amazing to be witness the signing ceremony of Club Med Tinley in South Africa
13/09/2023
Coffee. Taylor Swift singalong. Swim. Taylor Swift singalong. Breakfast. Taylor’s Swift singalong 🎶🎵🎤
Remember this moment !!
27/08/2023
What a fun weekend!!! ❤️❤️❤️
24/07/2023
22!! 😂
21/05/2023
Just a girl riding her bike … 20,000m of climbing in 10 days … worth the view every time!
02/03/2023
I miss this feeling … I’m still fighting for the truth and nothing more. It is an incredibly protracted and traumatic process.
Racing an Ironman is such a privilege and I really hope all those taking on IMSA welcome the pain, the courage and the happiness that this race brings - South Africa 🇿🇦 really shows off.
Wishing everyone racing or participating a wonderful experience and that your day reflects your training. ❤️
29/11/2022
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01/11/2022
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11/09/2022
A great weekend with no connectivity but all the connection!!
Celebrating birthday, hanging with some of the best people … cup is full ❤️
06/09/2022
It’s been a rough year with a series of personal struggles… AND THEN my Grandmother, who raised me, passed away unexpectedly. Work has never been so intense and time consuming!
I have maintained training but the mind and body have clearly been worn down - resulting in in bronchial pneumonia, which I am finally getting over after a good two weeks.
All in, it is with heart breaking disappointment to have to finally accept that I will not be in Kona this year.
25/08/2022
Representing the theme of ‘vibrancy’ on the Absa woman’s day panel with … the message that stuck in my head “if you want it, do it in spite of fear”
21/08/2022
When the sun comes out to play… ☀️
31/07/2022
What an epic and whirlwind tour of Paris and Bordeaux… love you ❤️ another moment in our 25 years of friendship …
15/05/2022
Spent Saturday morning riding 4.4km elevation - half Everest ✅ … looking forward to the full in a couple of weeks with
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28/04/2022
Annah 🍌 and some of her friends…
My Story
South African born and bred. From an early age, around 14 years, I started my life thinking I was going to be the next CEO; accountant extraordinaire. I focused all my attention on achieving this goal, however along this journey I have engaged with incredible friends and mentors who have introduced me to many different opportunities. As I stand today, not only am I a career woman and navigating the business world with finesse but I have achieved beyond what I initially could have imagined in my sporting life achieving a 3rd place at the Ironman World Champion in 2015.'
In my working life, I love using my mind, solving various problems and thinking commercially to help my clients to be more successful at the same time. I also love using my body, feeling strong and pushing it to and beyond its limits. Am I in balance and do I balance it all? The short answer is I don’t. My pendulum is never quite in balance and I play Tetris with my time on a regular basis, depending on what’s the priority; a client deadline or a looming race. A typical day for me starts at between 2.50am – 4.00am for training session, followed by a 10+ hour working day. Why do I do this? Because I am passionate about
achieving and have a deep desire to win.
Doesn’t that exemplify the saying “in the end we only regret the things we didn’t do”? Because I believe that one day I will get to that top step of the podium. That one day, I know that every miserable second of my training will have been completely worthwhile, because that is when I will feel on top of the world.
This is my life now. I am an athlete, made, moulded, not born. I made the choice to do
this through sheer dedication and the love of sport. Don’t be fooled, it is fun, it brings me a
great deal of happiness, but it is immensely difficult. All things of value come at a cost, but
this cost is essential, because without it there is no triumph, no victory. It defines those who
really want to achieve. It defines the determined.
When I consider my life, it is a great privilege that I not only had access to education, but to
sport. In response to a question around gender, a well-known female athlete turned
around to the audience and said "I never considered myself a female athlete, I considered myself an athlete." Those words speak to me, and is that not true equality? I
am not a female, I am a human being trying to succeed in both my corporate and athletic
careers. And so begins my journey.
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