2017 Walkway Marathon Digital Race Packet 2017DigitalRacePacket | Page 45

Winner Categories • • • • • • The Spirit of the Walkway Award: This is the Team demonstrating the most spirit at the Walkway Marathon weekend - before, during and/or after the race. Some examples of team spirit could be the team’s shirts/hats/ensembles; the team’s cheering sections at the finish, the team’s preparations twitters/posts, etc. The Fastest Connection Award: This is the Team(s) with the best time for the 5K, the Half Marathon, the Full Marathon, and for the team with fastest in all three. There are 4 separate awards – could go to one to four different teams. So recruit a few ringers! The Weekend Challenge Award: This is the Team who has runners in all races on both Saturday (Think Differently Dash) and Sunday races (5K, Half, Full Marathon). So recruit folks to run in all races on the weekend! The Tweeter Award: This is the most social Team, aka the Team with the most tweets and re-tweets! The Team must use one of below hash tags in their tweet AND include a hash tag with your business/group name in the tweet. This is to enable tracking of the business/group’s tweets and re-tweets. The Green Award: The Team lead must submit a very short paragraph prior to June 10th, describing what their business/group does to promote recycling on an ongoing basis. Send short paragraph to Susanne O’Neil at [email protected] . The Big Team Award: This is the Team with the most participants (based on percent of total employees). Tweet your group runs, tweet your individual runs, tweet any activity related to your team getting pumped for Walkway Marathon Weekend! Use hashtags: #ExperienceTheWalkway #ThinkDIFFERENTLY #RunWithMe #WalkwayChallengeAccepted #HealthiestCountiesChallenge #WalkwayMarathon #RunLocalFirst Announcement of Winners The winning teams will be notified at the beginning of July and will be recognized: • On Walkway Over the Hudson social media channels • In the Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce member news WALKWAY MARATHON IN PARTNERSHIP WITH DUTCHESS COUNTY GOVERNMENT