Businesses across Birmingham are being urged to lace up their running shoes and take part in the team challenge at the city's 10k and half marathon races next month.
The competition returns again for both events and has been simplified for 2022.
Teams can be any size from four people upwards and are all inclusive, with no upper limit on the number of runners, their age or gender.
And for the first time ever, the Great Birmingham 10k and Great Birmingham Run will take place on the same day - Sunday May 1.
In the team challenge, the times of the fastest four finishers are taken together to create an overall time, with prizes being awarded to those teams finishing in first, second and third places.
All finishers will receive a medal, T-shirt and goody bag and there is also a special prize for the largest teams taking part in the two races.
Organiser Great Run Company said companies from a wide variety of sectors had already signed up to take part in this year's challenge and the entry window was still open.
Among those to have joined is Mark Brider, chief executive of Birmingham Children's Hospital Charity, who will be running the 10k to raise awareness of the charity and its work.
He said: "One in five children from Birmingham and one in eight from the wider West Midlands are treated at the hospital each year.
"Charitable support makes such a difference to the life of our hospital and the treatment and experience we're able to offer our brave patients and their families.
"Every year, our supporters make us one of the biggest charity teams on the day and this year I'm delighted to be wearing my red balloon vest with pride and running alongside them."
The 10k and half marathon were last held in Birmingham in 2019 due to the covid pandemic.
The two races will follow similar routes to previous years, starting in the city centre before heading through Digbeth to Edgbaston, and onto Selly Oak for the half marathon, before heading back to the finish line in Jennens Road.
Andy Street, West Midlands Mayor and a very keen runner, will also be on the start line, leading a team of 20 from the West Midlands Combined Authority tackling the half marathon and raising funds for Birmingham-based charity Cure Leukaemia.
He said: "I am really pleased to be supporting Cure Leukaemia at the upcoming Great Birmingham Run. In what is sure to be a mega year of sport here in the West Midlands, I would encourage our local businesses to join me on the start line and help raise funds for this fantastic charity engaging in lifesaving work on our very doorstep."
Visit the Great Run website for more information about the team challenge or to enter as an individual - there is also 20 per cent off the price of the 10k until entries close.
