Perhaps it's just me being weird, but I can't shake the feeling that asking people for money to do a 'race' and then making no effort whatsoever to improve your fitness at all-so you're basically having a nice stroll-is somehow wrong?
I have a friend who is 'doing' raceforlife this year and she has already rolled her eyes at the mere idea of putting a little effort into improving her fitness so she can jog or even just part-jog the race. She's perfectly healthy, there's no reason she couldn't train a bit, but she just doesn't want to. And I know it's all for a good cause and it's not cos I'm too mean to give, but it really annoys me. I suppose i just think 'what's the point of doing a race then? You may as well sit on your arse and just donate a few quid online'
I did the race for life myself a few years ago, made a bit of an effort to train and felt very proud that I jogged the whole thing. I felt I earned my sponshorship money. So I was really suprised on the day to find whole swathes of people not even attempting to jog, not even doing a brisk walk, but just ambling along. I'd just be too embarrassed to ask people to give me money for doing that.
And obviously I'm not talking about people who have a medical condition that means even walking is an effort, etc, i'm talking your average fairly healthy woman. And I know it shouldn't really matter if it's for charity I suppose. But my niece recently trekked the Great Wall of China for Cancer Research, her mother (my SIL) died of breast cancer at 42 when my niece was 9. So to me, that kind of makes a mockery of people who are fit and well asking to be sponsored to basically have a stroll.
So,AIBU? and a grumpy old bag?