Run to Remember is the National Hospice Foundation's race training and fundraising program dedicated to advancing the cause of hospice care. While you are training and running to honor the memory of loved ones, we will help you raise vital dollars for Hospice of Central Iowa and the National Hospice Foundation. Through Run to Remember, you can create and customize your own personal fundraising page to e-mail to your friends and family to support your efforts. We will also help connect runners with donors by featuring and promoting these profiles.
You’ll receive the finest in online training support with flexible weekly training schedules for runners and walkers of all distances. So whether you’re a beginner or an avid runner, on race day you can wear your loved one’s name with pride on the back of your Run to Remember shirt.
It's as easy as 1-2-3:
1 - Register for your upcoming marathon, half marathon, 20K-, 10K-, or 5K- race.
2 - Register for Run to Remember.
3 - Designate Hospice of Central Iowa.
Run as a member of Run to Remember!
Run to Remember: At-A-Glance
Below are steps to take to register for the race and to register for the Run to Remember program. You must register for both your selected race and the Run to Remember program to be able to designate the donated dollars to Hospice of Central Iowa. Please read through each step before you begin registering.
Step 1: Register for the your selected race.
Step 2: Register through the Run to Remember (RTR) program for free by following this link. Once you are at the Run to Remember page, you will click the “REGISTRATION” button in the upper right hand corner of the page. It is important to designate “Hospice of Central Iowa” as the beneficiary of choice when registering.
Step 3: Run to Remember will email you your very own web page which you can customize and send to family and friends.
Step 4: While not essential, many participants find it is fun to ask one, or several, friends to register for Run to Remember at the same time they do.
Step 5: Use the training tools on the Run to Remember site to prepare for the event you have selected.
Step 6: You will be given a National Hospice Foundation - Run to Remember shirt that be personalized for the person you are running to remember on race day.
Step 7: Have an extraordinary experience with new friends while you prepare!
If you have any questions, please call (515) 271-1337 or (800) 806-9934.
About the IMT Des Moines Marathon
Experience the IMT Des Moines Marathon on Sunday, October 17, 2010. Race day features the IMT Des Moines Marathon, Half Marathon, 5-Person Marathon Relay Challenge and Principal Financial Group 5K Road Race.
Iowa's largest and fastest marathon offers a premier event that will validate YOUR commitment to training, challenge YOUR endurance and reward YOU with a life changing experience. Visit the IMT Des Moines Marathon site here to learn more about your race of interest.
Run to Remember Participation
Many 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 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
What does the Training program have to offer? The programs are flexible, allowing even the busiest people to train around their hectic personal schedules!
- Program length: 20-25 weeks (depending upon registration date)
- Weekly personal training schedules can be accessed through the website. 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 the IMT Des Moines Marathon. Whether you walk or run, use the schedule to program your run or 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.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Visit the Run to Remember site to view the frequently asked questions. Click here to view the FAQ.
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About Hospice of Central Iowa
Our Mission: Quality of life at the end of life through compassionate care for all individuals and their families. Hospice of Central Iowa is the state's oldest and most experienced hospice care provider, serving 35 counties. As an independent, not-for-profit organization, we are committed to providing excellent end-of-life care to patients and compassionate support for their families, whether they live at home, or in nursing care facilities, hospitals or our residential hospice care facilities, the Kavanagh Houses.
About the National Hospice Foundation
NHF supports the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization's quality and research initiatives, hospice/palliative provider education activities, consumer engagement and caregiver services, and global hospice partnerships. To review NHFs work more comprehensively, visit the website at http://www.nationalhospicefoundation.org/.
