Mad Marathon Launches Corporate Team Challenge (July 8)

Mad Marathon Launches Corporate Team Challenge

Registration fees to benefit local charities

Waitsfield, Vermont (For Immediate Release)- The Mad Marathon and Mad Half has launched a Mad Corporate Team Challenge to benefit charities in the Mad River Valley.

Dori Ingalls, Race Director for the Mad Marathon, announced this week that all 3-member corporate teams registering in the relay division of the 2012 marathon will be entered into the challenge.  Furthermore, twenty-five dollars of each registration fee will be donated equally to the three local non-profit charities that are registered with the Mad Marathon and CrowdRise.   The non-profits to benefit are, The Community Fund, Recovery Irene and Hannah’s House.  The Relay Team with the best overall time will not only receive medals , but also a “one of a kind”pottery piece courtesy of Luke Iannuzzi , The Naked Potter, located here in Waitsfield. 

CrowdRise is an impact site started by actor and philanthropist, Edward Norton, that is designed to make fundraising for the Mad Marathon really easy and fun.   All three of these marathon fundraising charities have registered with the site to raise money through runners of the event.  However, even if someone is not running the race, donations can be made on line at the CrowdRise site by linking to: http://www.crowdrise.com/madmarathon.

The Mad Marathon, Mad Half and 3 -Team Relay Division is set for July 8th this year. Along with the Corporate Challenge, race organizers have also added a Mad Half  Walker category.  Defined as the World’s Most Beautiful Marathon, the Mad Marathon Course runs though the extraordinary rural community of the Mad River Valley on back and dirt roads with breathtaking views of the Green Mountains, rolling farm lands, quaint villages, historical barns, covered bridges and fields of Vermont cows!   The inaugural run in 2011 hosted 1,200 runners from 46 States and 12 countries.

For more information on the Mad Corporate Team Challenge and The Mad Marathon contact dori@madmarthon.com or call:  (802) 496-5393.