A road race is lots of fun — a sweaty athletic challenge mixed with a boisterous block party, a feel-good mingling of bodies and souls. Unfortunately, though, road races are bad news for the environment. Whether the event is a 5k or a marathon, road races create huge environmental burdens, …
How can a foundation battling a condition that affects just 150 people across the U.S. maximize participation in a memorial 27-mile walk? Go big, says Laura Rivard, a board member of The APS Type 1 Foundation—specifically, make the event’s route distance total 1,000 miles, combine everyone’s miles, give participants two …
Since sponsoring its first virtual race in June 2020, Junior Achievement of Maine has come a long way… in fact, precisely 42,247 virtual miles. In 2020, in the shadow of initial COVID lock downs, JA Maine’s first virtual race had 183 racers who collectively covered 6,532 miles over two weeks. …
When you’re responsible for employee events for a law firm with 700 staff spread across eleven offices in six states, picking the right event can be tough. “It’s a challenge to find programs that include everyone across all our markets,” says Allison Lipp, Human Resources/Benefits Manager for Stoel Rives LLP. …
We thought Racery had mastered the science of converting activities into miles on a virtual route, with some race sponsors enabling conversions for everything from housework to reading to kids to volunteering. Then we saw “Lesser Known Apple Watch Workouts,” which includes exercises like: So… if you’re hosting a Racery …
Sometimes, it’s our smaller virtual races that are the most gratifying. Take, for example, the virtual run/walk we hosted this year for the FCS Foundation. Because FCS (familial chylomicronemia syndrome) affects just 1-2 people per million, mounting a conventional 5k in one location is impossible—affected individuals and their families are …
