Monday, April 11, 2011

How To Help A Charity By Running

By Dame Anderson


So you're in the market for charity runs, that's excellent to hear! Charity runs areone of the greatest techniques to help a charity raise funds, and it has the added reward of being generally excellent for your physique. We established this web-page to help people who are novices to the concept of charity runs find out a little major information before they get started. Hopefully we'll answer the questions you have, but if not, drop us a line and we'll try to get it answered for you.

How do charity runs function and collect money for the charity? A ordinary charity run is created and organized by a charitable organization that has an association with athletics or health. Good samples are Livestrong, American Heart Association, or your local hospital. Charity runs work in a couple various ways to raise funds. First, participants usually pay a relatively small registration fee that helps to cover cost for the association of the event and also goes directly to the charity fund. In addition you'll possibly get a souvenir t-shirt to take home. Second, in many charity runs athletes will work as fund-raisers and collect donations or pledges from close friends and family members. These pledges are either a set donation, or come in a per-mile format. Before you sign-up for a charity run, make sure you know how your donations will directly help the charity.

Do I need to be in first-rate shape to participate in a charity run or can I take it easy? Our favorite thing about charity runs is that they're customarily fairly laidback. The main purpose of the function is to assist the sponsor organization in place of running a record-setting run. Charity runs customarily have races of altering distances: 1 mile, 5k, 10k, all the way up to a marathon. This keeps it open to all ability levels. They will also in many instances have an event principally for walkers. Long story short,it would be a good idea to do a little training ahead of your charity run, but you most definitely don't need to be an Olympic athlete.

Is it hard to find a charity run? Charity runs come about all the time. If you're actively looking you'll find one. The web is a great resource. Try a search on one of the big search engines, or on Twitter/Facebook. Call your cities biggest running club, or a local hospital and they can usually point you in the right direction. The local High School Cross Country coach is also a great place to begin looking. They will without doubt know about any area charity runs. Runners World magazine has a race list that contains charity runs. One last thing, get out in the city and meet your fellow runners. Many times friendly chatter is the easiest way to find your next charity run.

That's it! You're ready to get out and get involved in a charity run. Charity runs were a great fund-raising tool in 2010, and we hope they will continue to bring assistance in 2011! Good luck!




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