To join Team M4M, use the “registration” link on the side of this page. More Information can be found below.
What TEAM M4M Can Do For You!
TEAM M4M will do the following for you:
- Provide training – each participant will receive a day-to-day training plan. Coaches provide training advice on injury prevention, performance enhancement techniques, race strategies, and nutrition. Weekend team training sessions at various locations throughout the DC Metropolitan area will provide team members the opportunity to learn how to prepare for a marathon.
- Provide incentive – each participant will receive a training shirt and racing tech shirt. For selected milestones, participants can earn bonus items such as hats, sunglasses, and socks.
- Provide camaraderie – team training will build unity and participants will find support through team training practices. Participants will be invited to meet at off-site locations at MRF sponsored events. Participants will make new friends, build new relationships, and develop a unified purpose and mission with some really great people.
- Provide support – running marathons is not an easy thing to do. Most who have thought of the idea never go through with it because their incentive is limited by their purpose and mission – self motivation. Training hurts, it’s tiring, it’s time consuming, and because of this, it is difficult, if not near impossible to stay motivated. Team training provides the support you need to keep going, to push through those difficult times.
- Provide purpose – finding a purpose to run, more than just the personal accomplishment of completing a marathon, is the incentive many find most powerful.
- Provide transportation and registration for each marathon – M4M will coordinate each participants travel to the event, accommodations and entry into the race.
What YOU Can Do For So Many!
In return for the training, the education, the hours provided towards your goal, M4M asks you to raise funds for the Melanoma Research Foundation. A minimum fundraising goal will be set for each race. An initial sign-up fee of $100.00 will be deducted from your minimal goal. This initial donation will secure you a spot on the training team and a training t-shirt.
M4M will:
- provide the minimal fundraising goal required for the event
- provide fundraising suggestions, sample letters, etc.
- provide a web-based fundraising site donors can go to contribute
Participants will:
- achieve the minimum fundraising goal
- work as a team, support their teammates, and act as an ambassador representing M4M and MRF
- complete your training