ParticipationMany other training programs celebrate survivors and help fund important research about disease cure. Run to Remember features what is uniquely important about hospice care and connects it to training for a distance race. Memory and honor are at the heart of this program.
Because people who receive hospice care do not survive, we are left to celebrate their memory and honor their lives. It is not often that we can dedicate five months—the amount of time it takes to train for a marathon—to the memory of a loved one.
Training Support
Run to Remember is proud to offer the finest in training support..
What does the Training program have to offer?
Our programs are flexible, allowing even the busiest people to train around their hectic personal schedules!
- Program length: 20-25 weeks (depending upon which marathon you choose)
- Weekly personal training schedules can be accessed through the web site. These individualized plans will be geared to your personal needs.
- The entire program is progressive in nature - each week builds on the previous week's training.
What do participants receive?
- 20-25 weeks of organized training programs.
- Run to Remember shirt with special location for the name of loved one on the back
- Group support
- Marathon training schedule
Your training schedule
Your training schedule will be your guide as you prepare for your marathon or half marathon. Whether you walk or run, use the schedule to program your run/walk days and your rest days as well.
The following link will take you to the Marathoner In Training page. You will be asked for your e-mail and a password. For the password, use RTR07.
To get your personalized training schedule click here.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Indeed there is. 1) Click on the "Register Now" button on the RTR website to sign up to the Run to Remember program. It is FREE to sign up!
2) Once you have registered you will receive an email confirming your enrollment in the Run to Remember program. The subject line for this e-mail is Registration Confirmation. Then you will receive a second email, confirming that you have established a user account with Active. Its subject line will be Welcome to Active.com. If you get these two e-mails, which you will, everything you need is set. You do not have do anything with either of them.
3) Then you will receive a third e-mail—THE IMPORTANT ONE. Its subject line will be You Online Fundraising Page Has Been Created. Open this one and log into your personal fundraising page with the user name and password your selected when you registered.
4) Click on the link at the top of the page to customize your fundraising page. It’s easy and fun. When you are finished, save your page and be sure to note its URL. Send out this link to your page to friends and family members and ask them to make a contribution on this personal fundraising page.
There are two ways you can send out this link: 1) simply cut and paste or type out the link to the personal fundraising page into e-mails—whatever e-mail system you use (hotmail, yahoo, outlook, etc.) and send out the link that way, or 2) use the "Invite Others to Contribute" function. The Invite others to Contribute button appears on your personal fundraising page. So when you click on the "Invite others to Contribute", you fill in e-mail addresses in the spaces provided and the link to your fundraising page will automatically be included with the e-mails.
You may train to run in any marathon or mini-marathon. Generally, though, we suggest running in a local area marathon because there are no transportation expenses. Unlike other programs, Run to Remember does not pay travel and registration expenses so that the costs of the program are kept low. In this way more dollars are sent to The National Hospice Foundation and to a local hospice program of your choice.
Many of our runner/walkers will have never been avid runners before. Most people even with no prior experience can finish a marathon provided they follow a structured, progressive training program start to finish, without falling off of the training program. It is a matter of future commitment more than a matter of previous experience.
The key to completing a marathon (running or walking) is having the preparation/training in - without it, accomplishing your goal will be very difficult!
Go to the training portion of the site and you will find it. Or, simply click here. You will be able to obtain a customized training calendar for your race that provides you with running distances for every day of your training period.
Yes! Many of our participants will be relative beginners at running/walking, so don’t feel like you are the only one. We will provide information on many topics regarding training for a marathon. We will teach you more than most avid runners know before the program is over.
Our programs are designed to teach you to finish, not to necessarily do it fast. Don’t worry about your speed. You will be in good company as many of our runners intend to walk the marathon. The goal is to finish a marathon, and that is lofty enough. You can worry about breaking world records when you attempt your second (or next) marathon!
Just go to the Fundraising Support section. There you will find every sort of information to assist you in your fundraising for the National Hospice Foundation from creating a list of potential supporters, to creating your own fundraising web page or letter to them.
Wonderful. Form a team. Give your team a name. Compete with other teams in your community. It can be fun and challenging as well.
Don’t worry about it. We are always available to you to respond to questions you have at any time. The easiest way is to simply e-mail us.
Honoring the life of a loved one is the heart and soul of Run to Remember. Running and training are means to this end. Hospice professionals specialize in not only care at the end of life, but also in grief therapy. They understand personal loss and create ways to cope with loss in constructive ways.
We make it easy and provide all the support you need and then some. And, because we make it an integral part of creating a living memorial to your loved one, it comes naturally and you can be very proud to participate in this aspect of the program.
We make that part of Run to Remember too. Run to Remember actually printed the names of over 40 people on the back of the shirt of a runner in one marathon!
Absolutely not! While Run to Remember provides “virtual” support for runners in races everywhere, staff we also provider ways for you to link with local running groups for training. Check out our forum for this information.
Training for an endurance event requires that you devote substantial and regular time over many months. So does honoring the memory of a loved one. We have simply combined the two, and it works wonderfully. If you have lost someone dear to you, the training period will provide you with daily time to focus on this loss. When you complete the program, you will have a better sense of closure and an enormous sense of physical and emotional achievement.
There are as many reasons why people participate with Run to Remember as there are runners who do the program. But they have several things in common. They all are passionate about hospice care because they have seen the benefits it brings to families at the end of life. They want to train for and run or walk a marathon. They feel Run to Remember lets them combine these two interests. Also, the program encourages them to dedicate their training and races to the memory of a loved one or loved ones.
Just register!! Use the button at the top of every page to register with us. It’s free.
The site is supposed to work for you. Probably the fastest and best way to get help is to send an e-mail to stuart@runtoremember.org. He has seen a lot of common site problems and can most likely get you on your way. However, if you are still stuck and want to talk to a real human being, call the National Hospice Foundation toll free number at 877-470-6472 and tell them you have an "RTR Related Site Question." They will either have the answer or get you the answer.
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