ANA Corporate Ekiden Relay 2008

Hey Everyone,

I thought it would be cool if you and your fellow Urbanite Runners would like to participate in a fast XC relay race. They have awesome raffle drawings such as a free roundtrip tickets from SFO-Tokyo.

Saturday, October 11, 2008, 09:00 AM

Golden Gate Park

30th Ave & Kennedy Drive, Lindley Meadow, a quarter of a mile East of Spreckles Lake

San Francisco, CA 94117

Brief Description: Relay race for teams of four runners in a corporate team, in men's, women's and co-ed divisions. Each runner runs with a sash and passes it to the next relay runner within exchange zone. Each Runner runs a two mile cross country loop in Golden Gate Park. Participant companies should have a significant business relationship in Japan or Far East Asia. Over $20,000 in random and other prizes!

Additional Information: Fabulous prizes for companies who travel or plan to travel regularly to Japan and Far East Asia. Companies that entered teams in the JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge who meet the above general criteria are particularly invited to enter. Also invited are teams from Bay Area MBA programs, their graduate students, faculty and staffs, but they may only enter one co-ed team per institution.

Fabulous prizes:

Random team prizes: Economy round trip tickets from SF to Tokyo are drawn from amongst each team category: Male, Female, Co-ed (6 total tickets, 2 each division). Teams decide on their own who in the team gets the tickets. Random? longest time at company? fastest leg?--you decide, probably good to figure out method before race...

Random individual prize: Two economy round trip tickets on ANA from SF to Tokyo to one participant and companion who put their business card in the proverbial "fish bowl" for random drawing. Value of tickets are approximately worth $2,500 each, so total random ticket prizes, team and individual, total approximately $20,000! Tickets are subject to restrictions. A member of a winning team may transfer their ticket to the spouse/family member of one of their immediate team members.

Secondary prizes for Team Categories, fastest teams: Fastest team in each category gets a $100 American Express Certificate and reservations for two at a Hilton Hotel in SF for one night. Team decides on their own how to distribute the prizes.

The race is on Golden Gate Park's well known 2-mile cross country loop near the Polo Fields, which is composed of scenic dirt trails and grassy meadows. This course is used annually by the popular Golden Gate Park Open and Pacific Association of USA Track & Field's Cross Country Championships (held Nov 23rd).

To see a course map, go to: http://www.usatf.org/routes/view.asp?rID=71143 .

Questions? Contact Tim Wason, President, SF Running & Walking at 415-647-2276/tim@sfrunning.com. Benefits Girls on the Run, and other charities to be decided. Start building your corporate team now!
Fees:$100 per team of 4 runners from one company
Online Registration Closes:10/07/08 11:59 PM
Website:http://www.sfrunning.com/

Registration: ANA_Corporate_Relay_2008