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Forming a Team
Individual teams are formed at schools and community centers and are led by teachers or volunteer coaches and assisted by YMCA coaches and peer mentors.
Optimally, each team should have 15 to 30 participants. The teachers/coaches are responsible for scheduling practices, submitting all paperwork and ensuring that their teams attend pre-race events (kickoff, conditioning clinic and practice races- 10k teams only).
The Marathon Program offers the students a training schedule that allows them to cover the distances necessary to be prepared for race day. There are two options for training:
- The marathon, where the students accumulate 25 miles of conditioning over 12 weeks and complete their last 1.2 miles on race day
- The 10k, where participants safely build up to running or walking 6.2 miles.
A Marathon program student does not have to be an athlete to become a participant in this program. Our goal for each student is completion rather than competition.
For more information, call Tara Taylor at (216)263-6298 or email her at ttaylor@clevelandymca.org.