Describe your race, distances, and pricing. Makeform creates a marathon registration form for runner details, emergency contacts, waiver agreement, and entry fees.
Send race entries to Google Sheets, Slack, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a race scenario, edit its details, or send the prompt into the Makeform builder.
Audience
Adult runners choosing the marathon or half marathon
Format
Multi-distance entry form with fees and waiver
Prompt size
310 chars
Example form structure
Multi-distance entry form with fees and waiver
Runner identity and contact details
Choose marathon or half marathon
Emergency contact name, relationship, and phone
Expected finish time and shirt size
Waiver acknowledgment and signature
Entry fee
Suggested routing tags
Confirmed entries
Payment follow-up
Waiver review
Ask for an emergency contact who is not participating in the same race, then make the phone number required.
Step 1
Enter
runner, distance, pace, and shirt details
Step 2
Prepare
emergency contact and race-day needs
Step 3
Agree
waiver shown, acknowledged, and signed
Step 4
Confirm
fee collected and entry routed to the organizer
A cleaner start line
Keep runner records, emergency details, acknowledgments, and fee status connected to one entry.
Collect distance, category, pace, shirt, contact, and team details in sortable fields.
Keep a named emergency contact, relationship, and phone beside the correct runner.
Require key fields, waiver acknowledgment, signature, and fee before confirmation.
Built around race formats
Show solo runners, relay captains, charity entrants, and guardians only relevant fields.
Offer several distances, then reveal matching prices, pace questions, and eligibility details.
Capture a captain once, then add every participant and relay leg.
Ask for charity, club, team, or fundraising details only when applicable.
Route youth entries through guardian contact, emergency details, terms, and signature.
Registration workflow
Start with your race categories and policies, then refine the form before sharing it.
Provide distances, divisions, fees, deadlines, participant types, contacts, and your waiver text.
Require essential fields and conditionally show team, charity, youth, or accessibility questions.
Preview each route and check calculations, signatures, choices, and confirmation copy.
Share the form, send confirmations, and route entries for bib assignment and follow-up.
Choose the right registration method
Distance affects price, participant type affects questions, and every entry needs an acknowledgment trail.
Field guide
Adjust these six sections to your event and use waiver wording chosen for your organization.
Runner profile
Collect structured identity and contact fields so staff can reach runners and check age categories consistently.
Race selection
Use controlled choices for distance and division, with conditional follow-ups for specialized routes.
Emergency contact
Require a reachable person who is not running the same event and explain how the information is used.
Race-day support
Collect actionable accessibility or logistical requests and route them to the responsible coordinator.
Waiver agreement
Place organizer-supplied terms above acknowledgment and signature fields, record the version, and seek appropriate review when needed.
Fees and confirmation
Connect each entry to its fee, store payment status, and explain next steps without promising acceptance before review.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for race directors and registration teams building an online entry flow.
Include runner contact details, birth date, distance, division, finish estimate, shirt size, emergency contact, support requests, organizer-supplied waiver, acknowledgment, signature, fee, and confirmation. Add conditional questions for relay, charity, and youth entries.
Yes. Offer each distance as a controlled choice, then show its fee, pace, category, merchandise, and waiver questions conditionally. The resulting entries remain filterable by event.
Require the contact's name, relationship, and phone. Ask for someone reachable on race day who is not running the same event, and keep the contact connected to the runner's entry.
Yes. Display your chosen terms before required acknowledgment and signature fields. For youth entries, use guardian-facing wording and a guardian signature. Seek appropriate review for wording or process questions.
Yes. Set prices by distance, team size, registration phase, or add-ons and show the amount before payment. Test boundary dates and every entry path before publishing.
Collect the captain once, then repeat runner, relay leg, pace, shirt, emergency contact, acknowledgment, and signature fields. Clearly state whether the captain pays once or runners pay separately.
Yes. Makeform provides unlimited free forms and responses. You can generate, edit, publish, and collect registrations without a form or response cap; the paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Review submissions in the Makeform inbox or route them to Google Sheets, Slack, or Zapier. Consistent distance, division, payment, and follow-up fields help staff filter entries.
Open registration with the details connected.
