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1. How do I join a Relay For Life team?
2. Why join Relay For Life?
3. Is Relay For Life International?
4. What does it mean to join a Relay For Life team?
5. How many athletes are needed to make a relay team?
6. How long do you run in Relay For Life?
7. What happens at Relay For Life?
8. How do Relay For Life teams work?
9. How does a Relay For Life event work?
10. What are the positions on a relay team?
11. What is a relay work team?
12. Why is Relay For Life overnight?
13. How does a relay contact work?

How do I join a Relay For Life team?

Registration is easy. To get started, find your local Relay event by visiting RelayForLife.org and entering your ZIP code. Start your own team or join an existing team online to register (paper registration options are also available).

Why join Relay For Life?

When you participate in Relay For Life, you become a vital part of the American Cancer Society: a volunteer. You are now part of an organization of 2.5 million survivors, patients, advocates, volunteers, caregivers, and researchers doing everything within our power to save lives.

Is Relay For Life International?

Global Relay For Life (GRFL) engages global organizations to empower communities and accelerate the fight for a world without cancer. Currently, the American Cancer Society partners with 29 countries on six continents, worldwide to host Relay For Life events.

What does it mean to join a Relay For Life team?

When you Relay, you show people impacted by cancer in your community that they're not alone. Join our movement with thousands of participants across the country.

How many athletes are needed to make a relay team?

At the Olympics and other World Athletics-sanctioned tournaments, a relay race is an event where a team of four athletes run equal predetermined distances in a sprint race, each passing a rod-like object called the 'baton' to the next person to continue the race.

How long do you run in Relay For Life?

The event lasts an entire day to recognize that when someone has cancer, it does not stop; the disease is present around the clock. To participate for 24-hour events, teams of participants camp overnight at local athletic tracks, taking turns running or walking laps.

What happens at Relay For Life?

WHAT HAPPENS AT A RELAY FOR LIFE EVENT? Teams and individuals fundraise and take turns walking or running around a track or path. Music, games, food, fun and fundraising. Participants will take part in fundraising the months leading up to the event.

How do Relay For Life teams work?

Relay For Life teams camp out overnight and take turns walking or running around a track or path at a local high school, park, or fairground. Events are up to 24 hours long, and because cancer never sleeps, each team is asked to have at least one participant on the track at all times.

How does a Relay For Life event work?

WHAT HAPPENS AT A RELAY FOR LIFE EVENT? Teams and individuals fundraise and take turns walking or running around a track or path. Music, games, food, fun and fundraising. Participants will take part in fundraising the months leading up to the event.

What are the positions on a relay team?

Based on the speed of the runners, the generally accepted strategy used in setting up a four-person relay team is: second-fastest, third-fastest, slowest, then fastest (anchor); however some teams (usually middle school or young high school) use second-fastest, slowest, third-fastest, then the fastest (anchor).

What is a relay work team?

Relay teams typically consist of four of the most highly skilled runners at a particular distance. But skill alone isn't enough. The teams must practice together to get their timing and execution just right. It takes a great deal of teamwork to win a relay event.

Why is Relay For Life overnight?

Why Is Relay For Life an Overnight Event? We Relay overnight so we can empathize with the cancer survivors we fight for. Throughout the night we experience different emotion: excitement, fear, fatigue, hope, just as Survivors do during their journey.

How does a relay contact work?

The relay permits a small amount of electrical current to control high current loads. When voltage is supplied to the coil, small current passes through the coil, resulting in a larger amount of current passing through the contacts to control the electrical load.