Step 1: Find Your Team

✓ Reach out to friends and family

✓ Recruit your co-workers

✓ Involve your local community

Step 2: Rally the Team!

✓  Create a team name, get team input

✓ Choose a team color

✓ Set a goal of how many miles you want your team to reach

✓  Adopt a "mantra," chant or motivator

✓ In addition to using #UMGCFUNdRun, create a social media hashtag for your team

Step 3: Spread the Word!

Registration opens the week of Monday, September 16 

✓  Send the URL to register online to your team

• Add your team's name on your bib when registering

✓  Host a virtual information session

✓  Create a team outfit/t-shirts

• Previous FUNd Run teams had matching headbands

✓  Get the word out on social media using #UMGCFUNdRun. Follow us on Facebook,Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram for updates. 

✓  Continue to promote who has joined your team, mention how many people you need on your team to reach your goal. 

WEEK BEFORE RACE WEEK:

Third Week of October

• Start a group chat/text to motivate your team 

• Share FUNd Run Daily Challenges with your team

• Put together a shared team spreadsheet to track miles of each participant 

• Send calendar invites for beginning of race week and end of race week parties 

RACE WEEK:

Monday, October 28 – Sunday, November 3

• Share pictures each day via group text and social media using #UMGCFUNdRun  

• Host a beginning-of-race-week virtual party (teammates share goals, discuss apps team members plan to use) 

• Host an end-of-race-week virtual party (celebrate accomplished goals, lessons learned and funny stories)