Team Competition Information
Form a Team for the inagural Team Competition!
The Team Competition will coincide with the 2nd Half Marathon, starting in Golden Gate Park and ending at the Embarcadero. Racing as a team is a great way to promote team work in your organization, camaraderie amongst your friends and friendly competition against other similar groups. Register as a team now to get active, meet others and have fun while training and racing the 2nd Half.
The team competition is free and open to any registered participant in the 2nd Half Marathon. Each team must have a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 8 members. Total finishing time of the top four runners will determine the team’s finishing time. All teams will be eligible for awards. Teams that are also enrolled in a Special Division will be eligible for Special Division recognition as well.
Teams: Minimum of 4 people - all male, all female or coed (2 male & 2 female)
Runners: Each runner runs the 2nd Half Marathon
Scoring: Total finishing time of top 4 runners determines team’s finish time
Team Awards:
· Top 3 finishing teams for male, female and coed receive awards
· Top team per division (Corporate, Running Athletic Clubs, Fire & Police, Military, University Alumni) is recognized for male, female and coed
· Organization entering most overall participants per division also recognized
Team Competition Quicklinks
Create a Team
Already registered? Join a team now!
Team Captains: Team Page Login
Create Personal Page Login
Access Personal Page
How to Set Up Your Team
- Register yourself for one of The San Francisco Marathon events (if you are the Team Captain – the Team Captain must register first and then setup the team).
- Once you are registered for one of the races, then you can create your team.
- Your team will be assigned a team number – pass your team number and/or your team name on to your colleagues, friends, and/or family so they can sign up for your team!
- As Team Captain you will have the capability to send out emails to all team members – this is a great way to keep the team updated on training and team details.
How to Join an existing Team
- If you haven't yet registered for one of The San Francisco Marathon events, you simply join the team during your registration process (it will ask you the team number - if you don't know it you can look it up on the registration form).
- If you are already registered for an event, you can still join a team! You first need to create your personal login page (on your personal page you can update your demographic information as well as join a team). To create your login page, go to: https://secure2.merchantcart.net/RunSFM/createlogin.cfm
- If you have already created your login page, then you just login to access your page at: https://secure2.merchantcart.net/runsfm/login.cfm
- Once in your personal login page you can add yourself to a team. Note that your personal login page also has a fundraising site where you can collect online doantions. If you are a member of a Cause to Run team, any donation you collect will go to that Cause to Run team. However, if you are just a member of any other team, then all donations you collect will automatically go to Youth Run4Fun, the RunSFM youth running non-profit organization.
- Questions on the process? Click here to contact us.
NOTE: All runners on the team must be registered for the 2nd Half Marathon. Participants who run the Full or 1st Half Marathon will not score for the team.
Non-competitive teams are encouraged to register for the Full or 1st Half Marathon.
Fun Team Ideas
- Fundraise for a Cause: If you have formed a team in any of the divisions, you can still fundraise for a Cause. Just check out the Cause to Run organizations and then contact us to let us know which organization your team would like to raise money for.
- Wear a Team T-Shirt: Create a fun team t-shirt for your team to wear during the race!
- Volunteer at a Water Stop: Recruit your friends and family to host a water stop. That way they will be out on the course with you, while also helping other runners! They can create signs to post at the water stop.
- Meet up at the Awards Ceremony: Have your team meet up at the awards ceremony to congratulate each other on finishing the race, and refueling your body after a nice long run!
Team Rules
Team Makeup
· Teams must have a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 8 runners.
· Male teams consist of only male runners, females consist of only female runners and coed teams must have a minimum of two male and two female runners.
· All runners on the team must be registered for the 2nd Half Marathon. Participants who run the 1st Half or The San Francisco Marathon will not score for the team.
· Runners may only be entered on one team roster.
· Runners must follow all rules that pertain to the 2nd Half Marathon.
Scoring & Awards
· For all-male and all-female teams, the first four finishing times will be totaled to determine the team’s overall finish time.
· For coed teams, the first two male and first two female finish times will be totaled to determine the team’s overall finish time.
· All finish times are based on official results.
· All teams, regardless of division, are eligible to win the Team Competition awards.
· Overall Team Competition awards will be given to the top three all-male, all-female and coed teams. Receiving team awards does not impact one’s ability to win race awards and vice versa.
· Finish times of all teams will be posted on the San Francisco Marathon website after race weekend.
Special Divisions
· Teams are encouraged, but not required to enter a special division:
o Corporate
o Running clubs & athletic teams
o Fire & Police
o Military
o University Alumni
· All team members on a Special Division team must be part of the same organization.
· The top finishing team in each Special Division will be recognized with an award.
· Within each special division, the organization with the most entrants in the competition will also be recognized.
Team Sign Up
· Each team should designate a team captain to register team members.
· Team captains can enter their teams here.
· Team members can join a team here.
· Team captains can designate the team under a special division, but all runners must be part of that division. E.g. Each team member of a team entered in the Corporate division must work for the same company.
· If joining a special division, please include the name of your organization in the application – this will be used to determine which organization has the most entrants.