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Fun run flyer for a club's annual harbour run
The only decision a reader makes on a fun run flyer is which distance, so the flyer has to make that easy. These three are for Bayside Athletics Club’s Harbour Dash, a fictional event with a 2 km kids run, a 5 km and a 10 km, and each prints the three distances with their start times and fees as one block rather than burying them in a paragraph.
The 3 designs
The same business laid out three ways, on three templates and three colour themes. Every price, name and time on these was written for this example, so you can judge the layouts on real content rather than placeholder text.
Distance poster
Harbour Dash 2026
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Three column programme
Run the Harbour
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Event card
Harbour Dash Event Card
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What each layout is doing
The poster design is built for a shop window: a dark page with the event name and the three distances in the hero, a wide foreshore photo, then three icon rows carrying distance, time and fee, and nothing else below them. The programme design is the one for the school bag, with a full width photo band, a headline stack, and three columns that each get 110 characters, which is enough room for a cut-off time or a rule about parents. The card design is the digital one: a big date, the meeting point, and two paragraphs that together carry every fact, which is what you post to the club page where a reader is scrolling rather than standing.
How to adapt these
For a charity run, put the cause and the amount raised per entry where the fee sits now, and keep the fee visible rather than replacing it, because a reader who cannot see the entry cost assumes it is high. For a school cross country, drop the fees entirely, use the three columns for year groups instead of distances, and add the wet weather rule, which is the only thing parents will ask about. For a trail run, keep the distances and add elevation to each column, and describe the start and finish in words: the map element here shows world countries, not a course, so a route map has to be a link.
What makes these work
Three distances, three times, three fees, in one block
2 km kids at 7:30am for $12, 5 km at 8:00am for $35, 10 km at 8:30am for $45. The poster prints them as three icon rows, the programme gives each one a column, and the card lists them in a single 128 character sentence. Whichever design a reader meets, the comparison they came to make is on the page in one glance.
The close date is on all three and none says enter on the day
Entries close Friday 30 October, three weekends before the run. It sits in the poster’s hero paragraph, under the programme’s ENTRIES CLOSE heading with the no entries on the day line beside it, and in the card’s footer. Saying it three times in three places is deliberate, because the single most expensive thing a run organiser does is print numbers for people who never entered.
Each distance carries its own rule
The programme design has room to say what the poster cannot: a parent may run the 2 km alongside a child for free, the 5 km has a 60 minute cut-off at the bridge turnaround, the 10 km is chip timed with two drink stations. Those are the three questions the organiser gets by email, answered in the column where the reader is already deciding.
Questions people ask
What goes on a fun run flyer?
Six things: the date, the distances with start times, the entry fee for each, the start and finish point, what a finisher gets, and the date entries close. These three carry all six. The sponsor logos, the road closure notice and the parking map are website material, because on an A4 page they push the distances below the fold.
How do I show three distances?
As three parallel lines with the same three facts in the same order: distance, start time, fee. The poster does it as three icon rows and the programme as three columns. What does not work is a paragraph, because a reader comparing 5 km at $35 with 10 km at $45 has to hold both in their head, and a sentence makes them read it twice.
Should I print the course map?
You cannot on the flyer itself. The map element is a world countries map with highlight and choropleth modes, so it can shade a country but not draw a street. Describe the start and finish instead, as these do with Kerr Street Reserve, note the drink stations, and put the course link or a QR on a design that ships a QR slot.
What about a waiver line?
Put the fact that entry includes accepting the conditions on the flyer, and the conditions themselves on the entry form, which is where a signature can be captured. A flyer cannot collect consent. Public liability cover for a community event is worth sorting before the flyer goes out, since your council or venue will usually ask for the certificate before they approve the date.
How early should run flyers go out?
Far enough ahead that the close date is not a surprise. These are dated for a Sunday 8 November run with entries closing Friday 30 October, and the flyers went to schools and cafes from early October. Four to six weeks gives a family time to enter, and it gives you two weekends of reminders before the cut-off.
Which size works for a school newsletter?
A4 Landscape at 1754 by 1240 is a native size for all three designs, so the landscape version of the same design is swapped in rather than the portrait one being squashed. Add a page at that size, check the shorter layout still carries the three fees, and export that page as a PNG or JPG, since both export the page you are on.
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