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By Malcolm C. MacPherson
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The place could not have been mistaken for anything but what it is—the grunts and groans, the heavy sighs, the sweating and wiping off sweat with little towels. The new Rapp-Fit Community Fitness Center at Rappahannock County High School, for reasons as different as the people who are joining up, is a bustling, successful affair.
No less than 121 Rappahannock residents have signed up and paid to use the aerobic and weight machines located in two side rooms (one air conditioned and one cooled by a virtual airplane propeller of an electric fan) of the fitness center, six days a week.
The center opened in May and has attracted “a real cross section of ages,” according to Mike Tupper, the high school’s assistant principal who was filling in one day last week for the regular fitness staff. “Plenty of people are coming in, but we’d love to see more.”
Katie Hartman, 10, a towhead who attends Rappahannock County Elementaiy School, was jogging on a treadmill programmed to go fast and slow and up and down, and she was running with such apparent ease, she could carry on a conversation.
Hartman helps her dad, J.D. Hartman, on the family’s vineyard, Christensen Ridge Winery, and she needs muscles to get the work done. She also needs to work out, she says, if she hopes to make the “cut” for her school’s basketball team during the July 26-29 Basketball Camp. “I thought I’d get a jump on it,” Katie said.
Nearby on another treadmill, running full blast, Jeremy Slack, 21, of Washington, the son of the artist Rex and a rising senior at the University of Arizona, wants to work out to keep up with the forces of gravity and atrophy. He works out two to three times a week at the university. “And I don’t want to lose it,” he said. The 2001 graduate of RCHS said, ‘It’s a lot of convenience,
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