The Best Buddies Challenge: Do It Yourself is a great way to participate in the Challenge your way! Create Your Challenge: ride, run, or walk a route of your choice, hike, swim, paddleboard, or do your own thing! The possibilities are limitless! It’s your Challenge and your way to raise funds to support Best Buddies’ mission of inclusion for all!

The DIY Challenge offers you, or your team, the flexibility of designing your own event. You pick the date, you pick the time, you pick the activity. It’s a great, worry-free way to get your friends and family involved, too! Our Challenge staff is always available to provide fundraising tools, tips on hosting your own event, and our DIY toolkit that includes fun Best Buddies Challenge swag for you and your team.

The Best Buddies Challenge: DIY offers amazing fundraising incentives. The more you raise, the more you’ll receive! From exclusive Best Buddies Challenge gear to invitations to private rides, there’s something for everyone!

Register

Sign up and create your personal Best Buddies Challenge fundraising page. There’s no minimum fundraising commitment required. Register now >

Create Your Challenge

Pick your favorite activity or try something new!

Join us on Strava to track your activity

Join our Strava Club and follow other DIY participants. You can also choose to ride one of our Strava segments or create your own! Get out and set a new PR!

Join us on Zwift

Join our Virtual Training Rides on Zwift! Our rides are led by Best Buddies Challenge staff, professional athletes, and other special guests.

Like to Ride?

Ride our original 100-, 50- or 20-mile Hyannis Port event routes are available to ride on Bkool.

Share Your Challenge

Show off your DIY Challenge! Post, tag, and share on social media with hashtag #DIYbbc so we can follow along with you and give you kudos!

Funds raised through the Best Buddies Challenge: Hearst Castle, presented by Pepsi-Cola benefit Best Buddies International, the world’s largest organization dedicated to ending the social, physical and economic isolation of the 200 million people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).  Our programs empower the special abilities of people with IDD by helping them form meaningful friendships with their peers, secure successful jobs, live independently, improve public speaking, self-advocacy and communication skills, and feel valued by society.

The IDD community that Best Buddies serves includes, but is not limited to, people with Down syndrome, autism, Fragile X syndrome, Williams syndrome, cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury and other undiagnosed disabilities.