Company Captain’s Area
Challenge Your Competitors! Challenge your business friends and competitors to meet you at the starting line. Some ideas for challenges include the largest number of employees participating, the oldest team, CEO versus CEO, best team time or most male or female runners/ walkers. Remember that there is a Corporate Cup Award for the company with the most participants in each industry category. To issue a challenge, contact the Race Committee at info@kpcorporaterunwalk.com or 404-843-8727. After the Race Committee contacts the company being challenged, you will be advised whether or not the challenge was accepted.
Can Collection Contest! The Atlanta Community Food Bank will have a Corporate Can Collection Competition onsite! The company who brings the most cans to the event will win a gift package from the event. The Food Bank truck will be there and ready to take your cans! For more info, contact james.johnson@acfb.org or 404.892.9822 x 1227.
Kaiser Permanente Corporate Cup – Most Fit Company Does your company encourage its employees to maintain a healthy lifestyle? If so, please fill out a “Most Fit Company” application to be considered for the Kaiser Permanente Cup, a special recognition given to companies that provide a healthy work environment for employees. The “Most Fit Company” application is designed to help identify the strength of your company’s employee health & wellness initiatives. Awards are presented to companies based on employee size in four categories: more than 5,000 employees; 1,000 – 4,999 employees; 100-999 employees; and 100 employees or less. The survey takes just a few minutes and will be available here soon. Deadline: August 20, 2012
CEO Category Cups
We have two categories for CEOs: 5-29 full-time employees and 30+ full-time employees. CEO Cups will be given for the fastest male and female CEOs for companies in each category. Verified CEOs will receive specially marked bib numbers and may start in the CEO Start Area up front. If a company CEO is participating and would like to compete against the other CEOs, a CEO Scorecard must be filled out and turned in to the Info/Results Tent after the 5K in order to be listed in event results.
To qualify and be eligible for awards: - A CEO must be the senior full-time employee of the entire company (i.e., President/CEO, Chairman of the Board). – A CEO must have a minimum of five full time employees. (The possible exception would be firms with multiple but equal CEO-level partners.)
Team Photo signup. Only teams over 60 need to reserve a time. Teams under 60 should come to the Photo Area anytime from 5–6:30 PM. Email info@kpcorporaterunwalk.com to set up a reservation. All photos, team and candid, will be available for free and unlimited downloading after the event.
Race Numbers. Your race numbers will be ready about two weeks before the September 13, 2012 event. Included will be:
- Race numbers for all officially entered participants
- Copy of the Company Roster Form with assigned race numbers so that captain can distribute the correct number to each participant
- Race Day Information Sheets for captains and participants
- Team, CEO and captain Scorecards
- Event site map and schedule
Scoring and Scorecards Participants are scored on a team basis in three categories. A team consists of one of the following:
- Men’s Team…..Four Men
- Women’s Team….Four Women
- Coed Team….Two Men and Two Women
Note: Participants may be assigned to a team after the race and may only be placed on one team i.e., a woman placed on the Women’s Team cannot also be placed on the Coed Team, etc.
T-Shirt Contest (optional) There will be a T-shirt Design Contest for all participating companies. One prize will be awarded in each of the following categories:
*Most Original
*Most Colorful
*Best Incorporation of Event Logo
*Most Creative Use of Company Logo
Please follow the following outlined procedures:
- Submit a sample (no printouts, please), no later than September 10, 2012 to Kaiser Permanente Corporate Run/Walk, 4651 Roswell Road, I-802, Atlanta, GA 30342.
- Attach a business card from your company to the inside collar label of the t-shirt for identification.
- T-shirts will be judged prior to race night. All submitted shirts will be displayed on race night.
- All T-shirt Contest winners will be presented at the Awards Ceremony on race night.
- Once T-shirts are submitted, they become the property of the Race Committee and will be donated to a local charity that supports the sport of running/walking.
- Past winners: 2010 T-shirt Contest Winners 2011 T-shirt Contest Winners
Results. Team captains must submit their company scorecards to the Information Tent immediately after the 5K. Results will be posted online afterwards.
Why Be A Team Captain?
- Stand-out and impress your management by demonstrating your leadership and team-building skills
- Help bring the benefits of a healthy lifestyle to your work associates
- Get fit while having fun and getting to know your co-workers
The Company Captain (s) will be responsible for the following:
*Recruit one to two co-captains to assist
*Attend one Informational (Captains) Meeting
*Register your company at KPcorporaterunwalk.com first
*Promote program to coworkers, family and friends
*Order tent, if applicable, online or offline above
*Set up Team Photo time (if team is 60+) with info@kpcorporaterunwalk.com
*Communicate with team members. If you’ve signed up online, you can view and email your team members from this Active.com page - Team Captain Tools (logging back in after team creation)
*Distribute race numbers and race information to all of your team members either beforehand or on event day.
Information, Resources and Tools
* Why Your Company Should Participate
* How to get your Employees Involved by Team Captain Joye McElroy of LeasePlan USA
* Health Tools and Calculators
* Nutrition Word Scramble (a fun exercise idea for your employees)
* Captain Toolkit (PDF) – includes sample emails and flyers. This is a large file.
* Captain Toolkit (Word) – includes sample emails and flyers. This is a large file.
* Captain Toolkit Flyers – (print, edit where necessary and post at your company)
Ideas to encourage interest and involvement from your employees.
- Encourage all levels of employees within the company to participate.
- Have departments within the company challenge each other for the most participants and provide a “prize” for the department with the highest amount of participants.
- Bring in guest speakers to talk about wellness and fitness.
- Advertise the event in common areas and provide training tips through E-mails.
- Give employees time to train together during the work day.
- Supply company T-shirts with company logo for day-of-race or for training.
- Pay at least half of participants’ registration fee (or reimburse afterward those who attend).
- Offer an extra half or full day off to those employees who participated.
Have idea (s) we’ve not mentioned? Please share with us: info@kpcorporaterunwalk.com
Paragraph to use on your materials The Kaiser Permanente Corporate Run/Walk & Fitness Program is a unique workplace-organized fitness initiative designed to inspire fun, fitness and camaraderie among Atlanta’s corporate community. A free 8-week training program (July 23th-September 13th) leads up to a corporate run/walk through Downtown Atlanta on Thursday, September 13, 2012 at 7 p.m., across from Turner Field. More than 15,000 runners, walkers and joggers from over 400 Atlanta companies will participate in what has become the largest workplace-organized 5K corporate fitness event in the world. To register visit www.kpcorporaterunwalk.com. For more info, call 404-843-8727.
Useful Captain Downloads (available here soon)
Complete Registration Folder (this is a large file and will take a little time to download)
Runner/Walker Release Form
Company Registration Pages (2)
Tents – The deadline to reserve a tent is 8/13/2012. For more information, please email michele@jeffgalloway.com. Any tent reservations received after August 13 will incur an additional $75 fee.
Tent Rental
- A easy meeting place before and after the race – give a motivational speech, chant company cheers, etc.
- Visibility for your company
- Provide a sheltered area to give you refreshments to your team
- Throw a Tent Party after the race to celebrate with your team!
- NOTE: the deadline to place your tent order is August 13, 2012
Referral Form Know another company that we should invite to join us for the Kaiser Permanente Corporate Run/Walk & Fitness Program? For each new contact you give us, we’ll enter your name into a drawing for a $100 gift certificate from Phidippides. Referral Form
Questions? Contact us at info@KPcorporaterunwalk.com or 404/843-8727.
