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Team Challenge is the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America endurance training and fundraising program. Through Team Challenge, you can run or walk 13.1 miles or train for a triathlon or cycling event 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.

About Team Challenge
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 range from novices and seasoned athletes 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 cures. Each participant in Team Challenge is given a fundraising goal. Fundraising goals differ in amount 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! Fundraising is so much easier than you think. Interested people can visit ccteamchallenge.org to obtain more information about getting involved in Team Challenge.

About Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis
Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are painful, medically incurable diseases that attack the digestive system. Crohn's disease may attack anywhere from along the digestive track, while ulcerative colitis inflames only the large intestine (colon). Symptoms include abdominal pain, persistent diarrhea, rectal bleeding, fatigue and weight loss. Many patients require hospitalization and surgery. These illnesses can cause severe complications, including colon cancer in patients with long-term disease. Known collectively as inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), these painful, chronic and unpredictable diseases affect approximately 1.4 million Americans, including some 140,000 children under the age of eighteen. Most people develop the diseases between the ages of 15 and 35.