About Team Challenge

Team Challenge Endurance Training Program

Team Challenge is the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation's endurance training and fundraising program. Through Team Challenge, you can run or walk a half marathon, train for a cycling event, or experience a sprint triathlon while helping to find a cure for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, two chronic and often debilitating digestive diseases that impact 1.4 million Americans.

Change Your Life: Join Our Team

Here's what Team Challenge offers you:

• Personalized fitness training by an experienced coach for a period of three to four months
• A supportive team to train with each week
• Training clinics and helpful tips on topics like nutrition, hydration, injury prevention and shoe fit
• Expenses-paid weekend away to a great destination race
• Team Manager, a dedicated staff person from CCFA who coordinates team events, guides you through fundraising, and is your #1 personal cheerleader
• Mentor, a past participant of Team Challenge who can show you the ropes and be your personal fundraising coach
• Team uniform including a training shirt and race day singlet

Here's how Team Challenge works:

What:	Team Challenge is an endurance sports training program. Participants raise funds for Crohn's and colitis research and patient services in exchange for training, support, and lodging and airfare to the event of their choice.
Participants:	Participants range from seasoned athletes to novices who want to get in shape, triumph over a challenge, and/or meet other motivated people. Teams train in honor of local patients who are battling Crohn's and colitis, known as honored teammates. Their stories provide inspiration and motivation to train in their honor and fundraise for a cure.
Fundraise:	Each participant in Team Challenge is given a fundraising goal. Fundraising goals differ in range based on the location of the team and the event destination. Each participant has the entire season to fundraise and is asked to reach their goal two weeks prior to their race. In exchange for reaching your goal, you receive the benefits listed above. Team Challenge provides you with fundraising clinics, a personalized fundraising website, fundraising tools, a supportive Team Manager to guide you, and a mentor to help you along the way!
Register:	Start now -- get more information from your local Team Manager!

When You Challenge Yourself, You Help Find a Cure

For over 40 years, the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA) has paved the way to a cure by creating the first research programs dedicated to Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. With escalating numbers of new cases, the need for research and patient support funding is greater than it has ever been.

Team Challenge for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis is helping us raise the funds needed to make these diseases history. When you join Team Challenge, you'll train for a rewarding and exciting endurance event while raising vital funds for research. These dollars will help make new treatments possible and fuel the search for cures. With your help, we can prevent Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis from impacting future generations.

Get ready for the experience of a lifetime. Join Team Challenge for our half marathon, cycling, or new triathlon programs today!