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Running and rowing for charity
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The Cancer Research event was the annual Race for Life, which saw 1,300 women of all ages running, jogging or walking a 5-km course along the St Aubin’s Bay promenade in perfect conditions.
Paradoxically, this race is not really a race, though many of those who take part give it their all. Crossing the finishing line has far more to do with personal challenge and registering support for an important charity than winning or recording a record time.
Macmillan Cancer Support Jersey, meanwhile, benefited from the RBSI-sponsored Rowathon at Les Ormes. Although the row was on land and involved rowing machines rather than boats, the teams which took part in and completed the challenge can claim to have rowed from Sark to Jersey.
The 30,000-metre target distance was chosen as the equivalent of the sea route between the islands.
Appropriately, a Jersey Rowing Club team recorded the best time, but, as in the Race for Life, competition was very much a secondary issue, although it undoubtedly spurred teams on to impressive performances. The principal concerns were – again – personal challenge and support for an organisation responsible for invaluable work here in the Island.
All those who took part in the Race for Life and the Rowathon deserve congratulation. So, too, do the sponsors, corporate and individual, and the organisers, whose efforts meant that both events ran without a hitch.
Of course, although the race and the row were the focus of attention at the weekend, they are anything but the only high-profile charity events that the Island sees. Indeed, there cannot, in fact, be many communities of a similar size that manage to raise as much for charitable causes on such a regular basis.
Even in these difficult economic circumstances Islanders remain exceptionally generous, in terms of both time and money. Long may this fine tradition continue.
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