🎄 2024 Advent Challenge: The 12 Runs of Christmas! 🎄

[MissUnderstanding]

Hello Bridge to 10k members!

Welcome to the 2024 Advent Challenge! For a bit of Christmas fun, we’re challenging you to see how many of our “12 runs of Christmas” you can tick off by Christmas Day.

Here’s how it works…

Choose a run from the list below (or see what pops up on your usual run)

Take a photo and/or write a reply below (or write your own separate post)

Keep track of how many runs you’ve done and we’ll see if there’s a winner on Boxing Day

Here are the runs:

1) Santa dash: run in a Santa hat

2) Red-nosed reindeer: put on a red nose or let nature paint yours red on a cold run

3) Berry bimble: spot some festive berries

4) Running around the Christmas tree: take a selfie with a Christmas tree

5) Follow the star: run at night or spot a star decoration

6) Silent night: run without any music or commentary

7) Christmas stockings: wear some Christmassy socks

8) Frosty the snowman: run in the frost/snow

9) Rockin’ robin: spot a robin on your run

10) Light exercise: run past some Christmas lights

11) O run all ye faithful: take a photo of a church

12) Christmas pudding: eat something Christmassy when you get home!

It’s totally fine to walk or use a treadmill. Stay safe and don’t run/walk if conditions are dodgy.

Don’t bin your rest days if you’d usually keep them. It’s absolutely allowed to adapt to suit how you like to run and interpret the instructions as tenuously as you like.

Good luck everyone! Let’s see some Christmassy runs!

[Mummycav Administrator Graduate10]

I’m looking forward to joining in with some of these runs MissUnderstanding …I like an ADVENTure 😛

[Annieapple in reply to Mummycav]

🍏🤗Clever 👏 Mummycav

[MissUnderstanding Administrator Graduate10 in reply to Mummycav]

🤣🤣🤣 I am absolutely going to nick this for next week’s quest title!

[Mummycav Administrator Graduate10 in reply to MissUnderstanding]

🤣🤣🤣

[Mummycav Administrator Graduate10 in reply to MissUnderstanding]

you’re welcome 😝😝😝

[Annieapple]

🍏 Yippee 🥳 I love Christmas fun! My favourite here Silent Night… xx

[MissUnderstanding Administrator Graduate10 in reply to Annieapple]

I’ve been practising the alto line for Silent Night this afternoon just in case I end up singing that in a Carol service. Descants all the way for the others-Hark the Herald is my favourite but I couldn’t think of a pun…maybe next year!

Silent running will be hard for me, although maybe if I decide to take MrU on, he can chatter away. We’ll see! Maybe you’ll tick off a challenge or two….you should definitely have a Christmas pudding (or two, or three…..)

Hope it’s a lovely advent time for you, whatever it brings ❤️

[Sax64 Graduate10]

I've been very quiet here on HU for ages, so this could be just the thing to tempt me back in 🎅 🎄 ⛄️ 🌟 Such a lovely idea to pep up the runs

[MissUnderstanding Administrator Graduate10 in reply to Sax64]

Fantastic! It’s always really lovely to see you. It’s been hard here with general busyness. Luckily I’ve got a quieter month now so I can make the most of it with some silly run fun. Hope it’s a good one for you too! ❤️🎄🏃

[Yesletsgo Administrator Graduate10]

Hoping for a frosty run...love that crunch underfoot 😁

[MissUnderstanding Administrator Graduate10 in reply to Yesletsgo]

Me too!! Frosty pictures are always the prettiest too. I like the right kind of snow but that’s a very specific type-crisp but not icy. We’ll see! Can’t wait to see what we all come up with.! ❄️❄️❄️

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate]

Ooo, I'll try and do a few of those 😁

[MissUnderstanding Administrator Graduate10 in reply to SueAppleRun]

Excellent!!good luck! Looking forward to seeing some pictures!

[drl212 Graduate10]

What a fantastic idea!

I will give it a try with my walks...

[MissUnderstanding Administrator Graduate10 in reply to drl212]

Super! Hopefully the weather will play nicely and you’ll have some lovely walks to report back. Enjoy! ❄️

[skysue16 Graduate10]

Love these ideas, will keep them in mind when I go for my runs 👍😀

[MissUnderstanding Administrator Graduate10 in reply to skysue16]

Fantastic! Can’t wait to hear how you get on! Good luck!!’ 🎄🎄🎄

[smokeysmoke]

My berry bimble run this morning

[MissUnderstanding Administrator Graduate10 in reply to smokeysmoke]

Gorgeous photo! That is a top quality berry bimble!!

[Mummycav Administrator Graduate10]

morning MissUnderstanding …I did the berry bimble on Wed but the birds must be extremely hungry round here, I hardly saw any berries but here’s a photo to prove it 😜

Berryless bush!!

[MissUnderstanding Administrator Graduate10 in reply to Mummycav]

That poor lonely berry!!! You must have some seriously greedy birds round your way! To be fair, with the weather as it is, they need the extra energy to battle the wind!

[Mummycav Administrator Graduate10 in reply to MissUnderstanding]

Absolutely…

[MissUnderstanding Administrator Graduate10]

Here’s my Christmas pudding! Poor old Father Christmas was a bit battered so he was reduced in the sale at the local leisure centre. He was a reward for a short run and a Pilates class where the air conditioning was broken. We accidentally did “hot Pilates!”. I was glad of a bit of sugar to pick me up afterwards!!

Father Christmas biscuit!

[Cmoi Graduate10]

Re 6) Silent night: I can't remember the last time I ran with music or commentary! So 'twould be cheating to claim that!!

Also, am short of sopranos for O Come All ye Faithful descant on Saturday 21st December, if you fancy popping by? Current Venn diagram of "capable" and "available" is distressingly void.

[MissUnderstanding Administrator Graduate10 in reply to Cmoi]

if it weren’t such a commute, I’d be there!!

You can absolutely claim “silent night”!! Not cheating at all. I almost did that one by necessity when I couldn’t find my headphone this morning!!

[Sax64 Graduate10]

On my run this morning I passed our local Church, spotted some Holly berries (very hard to find this year, where are they all?), and then forgot it was supposed to be a selfie in front of a tree, but this is the local Christmas Tree growers opening up for the day. So that's 2 possibly 3 bagged today, depending on how generous you're feeling. Still windy out, but at least it's stopped raining.

Church, Berries & Trees

[MissUnderstanding Administrator Graduate10 in reply to Sax64]

😍😍😍 That’s a really lovely pic and a great run too. Very efficient with all those advent challenge categories ticked!!! I think you can claim all three! 🏅🏅🏅

[Sax64 Graduate10 in reply to MissUnderstanding]

That's great. 3 down 9 to go 🎅 ⛄️ 🏃‍♂️ 🏃‍♀️

[MissUnderstanding Administrator Graduate10]

This was almost a Rockin robin!!! He flew off before I could catch him in the picture!!! I had a nice 5k though so that’s a win. I think I’ll claim the robin run even without full photographic evidence!

Field

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate10]

Better late than never???? I am IN !

Yes, I blinking well am...Life these last months have really taken a toll on me running wise.... and mentally as well as Physically... so... I need a LIFT!

Watch this space !

Is it okay to join i even though I am late?

[MissUnderstanding Administrator Graduate10 in reply to Oldfloss]

Never too late to join in here!! Super pleased you’re joining in the Christmassy fun!!! You e had so much to deal with lately, hopefully it’ll be some (Christmas) light relief ❤️

[Sandraj39 Graduate10]

Tally so far:3

Follow the Star - run at night.✔️

Light exercise - run past Christmas lights✔️

O run all ye faithful - take a photo of a church✔️

These were taken over a couple of runs, both after work in my local village. I did take a selfie with the tree but quality control forbids me from sharing it! Will tick this was off another time!

[MissUnderstanding Administrator Graduate10 in reply to Sandraj39]

Love all these! I will award you the selfie without a need for sharing. I’ve definitely got more than a few that don’t make it past quality control!!

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate10]

Hello...

CB and I ran this morning... and we sort of amalgamated two things... The berry bimble and the running around the Christmas tree..

A real dearth of berries... the cold snap has meant the birds have scoffed nearly all! I had a heck of a job... CB pointed them out !

Christmas tree on the small community board green... I ran around it a few times, much to the delight of some of the high school children... but forgot to take a selfie

... does it count or do I need to head back there tomorrow!

xxx

Treeberry

[MissUnderstanding Administrator Graduate10 in reply to Oldfloss]

It absolutely counts….unless you need an excuse to get out! Sounds like you had a perfect time. It usually is when CB is along for the ride ❤️

[Sax64 Graduate10]

So, I was doing the Christmas decs and I came across my Robins, made with grandchildren a few years ago. So, whenever I return from a run, there they are. I also did a silent run yesterday, we had a trip to Cardiff to see their xmassy festivities and then had a run before heading back home. As Mr Sax64 and I were running on unfamiliar ground, we opted for no headphones as we were constantly stopping and checking our route. Somehow, I don't think I'll get through all the challenges, but hey it's fun trying.

Rocking Robins

[MissUnderstanding Administrator Graduate10 in reply to Sax64]

Those are so cute!!! I’m not sure if many (any?!!?) of us will manage the whole lot. Glad it’s a bit of fun at Christmas time!

[Yesletsgo Administrator Graduate10]

Ooh, just realised I managed the Silent Night run or does the NRC app telling you you've done 1 km, 1.5 km, 2 km, 3 km nullify it?

When Mo Farrar told me that I ran really fast today it was after the run ended so that definitely doesn't count, does it?

[MissUnderstanding Administrator Graduate10 in reply to Yesletsgo]

I missed this! Definitely counts! It’s Christmas and I’m feeling generous….

[Yesletsgo Administrator Graduate10 in reply to MissUnderstanding]

Thank you, sending good cheer back to you