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This September, you can help love go the distance by running, walking or riding 72km to raise funds and awareness for the 72 Aussie men diagnosed each day and their families impacted by prostate cancer.

This is a great way to improve your overall health and wellbeing throughout Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. Together we can make sure our fathers, brothers, sons, husbands and mates will be there for the long run.

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in Australian men. 72 men will be diagnosed with the disease each day. Sadly, 1 in 5 men will develop anxiety or depression as a result of their diagnosis, yet 72% of men will not seek help for it. Together we can ensure these men are supported for the long run.

If your life has been impacted by prostate cancer, our Specialist Telenursing Service is available to help. Call us on 1800 22 00 99.

Everyone!

Whether you're an individual, a workplace, a team, a bunch of mates, or an entire sports club – registering and getting involved in The Long Run is easy.

Run, walk or ride it, and invite family and friends to join you.

Together we can all reduce the impact of prostate cancer on the men we love.

If you are under 18 you will need your guardian’s consent to take part.

It’s completely free to register and participate.

From the moment you register, we’ll be with you each step of the way supporting you to reach your goals.

1. Register online to set up your personal fundraising page.
2. Share your fundraising page link with friends, family and colleagues letting them know why you are taking on The Long Run.
3. Ask for support through donations and sponsorship.
4. Get moving to log your kilometres and give it all you’ve got!

The Long Run is an online fitness challenge which runs throughout September.

You decide where and when to complete your challenge and help love go the distance.

But you can start fundraising as soon as you register!

Throughout September, challenge yourself to run, walk or ride 72km and raise funds to support Aussie men and their families impacted by prostate cancer.

This year, we have also added in an option to do just 1km-a-day. Set your goal when you sign up!

All proceeds will go to Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia funding life-saving prostate cancer research, nursing, and awareness. Together we can get closer to a future where no man dies of prostate cancer.

Donations of $2 or more to Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia are tax-deductible in Australia.

Login to your fundraising dashboard using the email you registered with, click on ‘Edit my page’ and update your fundraising goal.

The best way to bank offline donations is through your online fundraising page with your own credit or debit card.

Deposit the money into your bank account and then make the transaction directly onto your page.

You can even make multiple transactions and add each donor's name and their individual messages to you. Your total fundraising amount will then be shown on your page. You can get a copy of the receipt in their name and share it with them.

Your profile page includes your personal distance tally so you can track your distance towards your target.

If you track your workouts with Fitbit, Strava or MapMyFitness your distances will automatically add to your tally. If you do not use one of these apps you can also log your fitness activities manually.

Follow these steps to track your KMs automatically:

1. Download the Fitbit, Strava (Apple watch/Health) or MapMyFitness app and set up your account.
2. Log in to your account on The Long Run and in your Dashboard go to the My Fitness Activity page.
3. Under the heading ‘Connect your preferred Fitness app’, click your chosen app.
4. Follow the prompts to connect your account.
5. When you next work out, select ‘start your workout’ in the app on your phone. Once you end your workout, save your workout and your distance will be published to the tally on your page the following day.

If you have synced your app already but it is not working, please log in and reconnect it.

When using Fitbit, you must ‘start’ an activity and save it. Your cumulative daily kms will not automatically add to your page. If you are having issues, try syncing through BOTH your Fitbit and the Fitbit app on your smartphone.

Your tally will be updated each day with the previous day’s distances. 

Click here for your step by step guide. 

It may take up to 24 hours for your fitness data to sync with your fundraising dashboard. If this has not occurred, please attempt relinking your app and adding any missed workouts manually on the “My Fitness Activity” page.

If you have synced your app already but it is not working, please log in to your fundraising dashboard and reconnect with the fitness app.

You can manually add your kilometres to the tally in your My Fitness Activity tab of your profile after registering. This is a great option if you’re using a pedometer or don’t want to sync your fitness app.

Follow these steps to manually add your KMs:

1. Log in to your account and select ‘My Fitness Activity’.
2. Under ‘Add activity’, enter the date and distance.
3. The number of KMs will now appear on your fundraising page!

Definitely! We’d love to see what you’re up to. You can tag us in public posts and stories on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram. And don’t forget to use the hashtag #TheLongRun so we can like, share or retweet your post!

We're always here to help. Give us a call on 1800 22 00 99 or email us at thelongrun@pcfa.org.au.

We are also available on our social media channels. Get in touch!

You can email 100 contacts per 24 hours by logging into your dashboard and navigating to the 'Get Support' tab. 
 
To dispatch bulk emails to over 100 contacts, we recommend using an external mailing application — GMail, Outllok etc.

1. Share your fundraising page URL on your Facebook page.
2. Connect a Facebook Fundraising event by tapping the button in your dashboard under the Fundraise tab
   

• Donations made via your Facebook event will pull across onto your Long Run page and display as 'Facebook Donation'
• Donations made via your Long Run page will tally up into your Facebook Fundraising page

Donations made on your Long Run page can not be individually synced into Facebook as the platform does not support this feature. However, the tally on your Facebook Event will update to reflect the total amount raised on both your Long Run page and Facebook Event page. 

You can create a team when you first register – it’s part of our simple 3 step registration process. Alternatively, you can go to your Fundraising “Dashboard” and select the “CREATE A TEAM” section, and follow the prompts.

Login to your dashboard and click “YOUR TEAM”. You can share the link to join your team from the “Invite others" section. Once you've shared your invite link, your new team member simply needs to click it and create an account. 

Another way to join a team, is by simply clicking the 'Join Team' button on a team page. 

Yes. As team captain you can change your team name in the Team section of your dashboard. However, any links you’ve previously shared will not work. If you are having difficulties with this or urgently need to change your team name, please contact us at thelongrun@pcfa.org.au or on 1800 22 00 99.

Yes. You simply go to the “MY TEAM” section and then the “Team Page Settings” tab, where you can adjust your team's fundraising target. To find out how to adjust your personal fundraising target, head to your Dashboard.