A lack of charity
17 January 2007
My colleague, who has signed up for the Oxygen Deficit 10k with me, is collecting sponsorship signatures for his participation. I have not asked for any sponsorship*.
Here’s why, if there could possibly could be any new readers to this site. In 2004, I signed up for the Xiamen International Marathon. I was training hard and managed to do a half marathon one Sunday morning. I was all ready to run my first marathon. I’d decided to go for sponsorship, and had arranged sponsors to donate to a Community Health charity my uncle and aunt volunteer with.
Then I went to Scotland for ten days about three weeks before the marathon and caught a cold, which turned into a bout of bronchitis. I was sick for over a month. I could just about catch my breath and not wheeze like mad on the day of the marathon.
Needless to say, I didn’t run that day. And so I’ve decided that I won’t do sponsorships any more (I’m a bit superstitious in the Murphy’s Law department), and I will do my best to join charity runs and donate that way (i.e. paying my entry fee).
* If I did, however, I would go for donations to either St Andrew’s Hospice or the the Scottish SPCA.
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