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 name - get team input

✓ Choose a team color

✓ Customize your team's name on your bib

✓  Create an outfit/t-shirts

• Previous FUNd Run Teams had matching headbands

✓  Adopt a "mantra," chant or motivator

✓  Design a logo

✓ Create a social media page or #hashtag

Step 3: Set Goals

✓  Number of people to recruit

✓  Number of miles to reach

Step 4: Spread the Word!

Registration opens Wednesday, October 4 

✓  Host a virtual info session

✓  Send emails with links to registration

✓  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:

Fourth Week of October

• Start a group chat/text to get and keep your team motivated 

• Share each days’ theme with your group 

• 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. 

• If you have a co-worker challenge, check in with them and invite their team to your end of race week party to determine who gets bragging rights 

RACE WEEK:

Monday, October 30 at 12:01 AM - Sunday, November 5th at 11:59 PM

• 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, funny stories and mark your calendars for next year’s event)