6/03/2008
Jump For Heart
I spent great swathes of my childhood trying to poison my elementary school classmates against the Jump for Heart program. (I remember theatrically throwing the sign up sheet on the ground). I can't say I had a reason for my intransigence based on economics, though. More likely, it was my usual antipathy for group activities into which one is guilted, or, perhaps, an effort to keep my classmates from realizing that I was very fat, and so unlikely to do much jumping for my heart or anyone else's.
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I don't remember feeling any bitterness against Jump Rope for Heart despite being a chubby kid, although I also felt a vague obligation toward the effort because there's a cardiologist in my family.
I'm also puzzled by the claims in the MR comments that people put effort into training for charity events. I've run/walked some kind of race for the past three years, and even though I'm not in shape, just getting through a 5K was no problem. People who insist on training for races either think they have a chance of winning or have a problem with coming in at the end. (I admit 10K is a stretch for me -- when I did one of those, I was one of the last people to finish, and was beaten by women in their 60s.) In which case, they're not training for the charity, they're training for their vanity.
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