You Start I Finish, established in 1986, has over 20 years of experience providing overall race management and finish line coordination services to over 60 races in the Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia area. Distances ranging from 5K to Half Marathon.  YSIF provides a wide range of pre-race, race day, and post race services, and these services are listed and described in more detail under the Services toolbar option.  Exciting news!  You can now rent our Start/Finish Arch for your event, with or without our finish line services.  View the Arch on our Services page.

For information on upcoming events managed by YSIF, please click on the Events toolbar option. This page provides links to our current clients and their websites, if available, for more detailed information and if available, a link to their electronic race entry webpage, race application, and/or certified race course maps.  Current year race results are also posted under the Events toolbar option.  Click on the Archives toolbar option to access results from past races.

The History toolbar option lists all of the races that we have worked and displays them in a table format.  One table shows the races we provided finish line coordination services and the other one overall race management [race director] services. The tables list the name of the race, and the years we have provided services, with the most current races listed at the top.

Our Toolkit toolbar option provides Race Directors with tips for race directors, sample forms and documents for preparing for and conducting their race, for instance, Race Timeline, Financial Spreadsheet, Community Notification, Volunteer Signup Form, Sentry Instructions, Registration Instructions, just to name a few which can be downloaded and customized for your event. It also provides links to USATF which shows how to get your course certified, apply for sanctioning, and obtain liability insurance for your running event. The toolkit page also provides a link to a national, searchable, on-line website calendar to list your running event.  Runner related calculators are also assessable on the Toolkit page.  Furthermore, our toolkit has a link to great fundraising ideas.  IdeasFundraising will help you get creative and come up with ways to make money, whether you want to raise money at work, get children involved in fundraising, or hold a seasonal fundraising event.

The Resources toolbar option provides links to running publications, area running clubs, area running stores and other running related vendors, and running organizations.

Please use the Contact Us toolbar option to contact us with service requests and questions about our services.