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Team Rules

Team Composition Requirements

 

DMV Run Club Championships

The DMV Run Club Championships is a race-within-a-race designed to showcase the talented running clubs from the Washington, DC metropolitan region as they compete head-to-head across three divisions: Men’s, Women’s, and Mixed.

  • Clubs can choose to split up to compete as one Men’s team and one Women’s team, or they can choose to compete as one Mixed-gender team.
  • Teams can be of unlimited size; the top 5 runners score.
  • In the Mixed division, the top 2 men score, the top 2 women score, and the remaining scorer can be a man, woman, or nonbinary person.
  • Prize money will be awarded in the Men’s and Women’s divisions: $1,000 for first place, $500 for second place, $250 for third place.
  • Running clubs from the following areas are invited to participate: Washington, DC; Montgomery, Prince George’s or Howard counties in Maryland; Arlington, Fairfax, Prince William or Loudoun counties in Virginia; and Alexandria or Fairfax cities in Virginia.
  • All entrants on a team must be bonafide members of that team and must have resided in one of these areas for at least the past two months.
  • The Team Coordinator reserves the right to evaluate team and team-member eligibility. His decisions are final.

Run Club Open

Running clubs (excluding clubs eligible to participate in the DMV Run Club Championships) may compete in the Men’s or Women’s divisions of the Run Club Open. Teams can be of unlimited size; the top 5 runners score.

Non-binary running club members may compete as a team in the Non-binary division of the Run Club Open. Teams can be of unlimited size and all team members must be registered as non-binary entrants; the top 3 runners score.

Men and Women running club members 40-years-of-age or older may compete as a team in the Mixed Masters division of the Run Club Open. Teams can be of unlimited size; the top 3 runners score. At least one scoring runner must be of each gender.

Run Club Open teams may be assembled from RRCA or USATF clubs, other registered running clubs, YMCAs, school teams, etc. Entrants of a team must all be members of the same club.

Corporate, Government, Military, Embassy, Media, Educational and Credit Union Teams

These are mixed teams of men and women consisting of three to five persons. A minimum of three runners must finish in order for the team to be scored, and at least one scoring runner of each team must be of each gender (i.e. no all-men’s or all-women’s teams). Except for Credit Union teams and Educational teams (see below), all team members must be full-time employees (30 hours per week or more) of the corporation or agency. Government agencies, media, law firms, non-profit businesses, Armed Forces members from a single base (e.g., Fort Belvoir), etc. are eligible. Credit Union team members must be members of the credit union putting together the team. Educational teams can be employees, students or graduates of the same educational institution.

 

Team Scoring and Awards

Scoring

Team scoring is based on the sum of the official finishing times of the scoring team members as recorded by the MYLAPS Bib Tag. Teams in each division will be ranked in ascending order of times (i.e., lowest aggregate time wins). In case of a tie based on the sum of the times of the scoring team members, the final scoring team member with the faster time will break the tie.

Awards

Team awards will be presented as follows:

  • DMV Run Club Championships Men’s – Top 3 teams ($1,000 for first, $500 for second, $250 for third)
  • DMV Run Club Championships Women’s – Top 3 teams ($1,000 for first, $500 for second, $250 for third)
  • DMV Run Club Championships Mixed – Top 3 teams
  • Run Club Open Men’s – Top 3 teams
  • Run Club Open Women’s – Top 3 teams
  • Run Club Open Non-binary – Top 1 team
  • Run Club Open Mixed Masters – Top 3 teams
  • Corporate (for-profit and non-profit) – Top 3 teams
  • Government – Top 3 teams
  • Military – Top 1 team
  • Embassy – Top 1 team
  • Educational Institution – Top 3 teams
  • Media –  Top 1 team
  • Credit Union Team Challenge – Top 3 teams

Please note that team awards will not be given out on race day in order to allow team finishers to be verified. This is necessary due to excessive number switching and selling.