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 29

  • 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-shirt
    • Previous FUNd Run teams had matching headbands
  • Get the word out on social media using #UMGCFUNdRun. Follow us on Facebook, X, 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. 

Fourth Week of October/Week before Race Week

  • 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: Thursday, October 29 – Sunday, November 1

  • 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)