New Year, new you right? 2016 the beginning of fulfilling that promise you made years back about getting fit and making the most of living in the Mother City.

Now if that be the case we’re pretty sure you’ll have heard about the FNB Cape Town 12 ONERUN, voted “Race of the Year” at the Western Province Athletics Annual Awards function last year.

You can find out exactly why HERE, we’ve laid out eight reasons that make it pretty clear.

Not a bad award for your first race ever, which is why the second annual race taking place on Saturday March 15 promises to be even better. So what exciting changes do they have in mind? How about helping you arrive all guns blazing at the starting line, ready to take on the 12km run like a boss?

Event organisers have lent a helping hand and tailor-made three training programmes that are ideal for beginners, intermediate and advanced runners.

All you have to do is head over HERE to download the one that best suits your level of expertise, then lace on your running shoes and smash it out the park.

A little run down of each training program, where you can click on the image to download the appropriate PDF.

First up is beginner:

Then intermediate:

Then for you real hardcore jogmeisters there’s expert:

We should also mention that we’re running a pretty fantastic competition in conjunction with  FNB Cape Town 12 ONERUN, offering two prizes valued at a cool R30 000 each. To find out all the details of our competition check THIS out, who doesn’t want to win goodies to the value of 30K for a few clicks on the laptop computer right?

The best view of Table Mountain the city can offer, entertainment at each and every water stop, prizes for dressing up, no cut off time so you can soak it all in – we could go on but I’m sure by now you’re ready to tackle this route like an old pro.