One - There are a lot of new-fangled races these days with mud and obstacles for people looking to spice up their workouts. Makes a lot of sense considering how boring running is. Those crazy race ideas are now making a fortune. The Spartan Race alone is forecasting $35 million in sales this year! With that kind of money there have to be other ideas out there for a different sort of race.
Two - There are tons of people who know how much they are going to indulge on Thanksgiving and to counteract that they do some sort of turkey run during the Thanksgiving holidays. These runs have become more and more popular in recent years and there is one held in most cities in America.
Now, to the idea - combining adventure and the holidays to produce...... The Running of the Shoppers! This run would be around the main shopping district of your city and would always fall on Black Friday. After the start, runners would have to run to a designated store where they would have to navigate the crowds of crazed deal-seekers to get to the very back of the store where they would take a token of some kind to prove they completed that store. The runners would then have to re-fight the same shoppers to get out of the store and run to the next one. That would go on for however long, probably around 3 or 4 miles.
Positives:
- People who hate shopping can bowl over the insane people and actually get rewarded for it!
- People will pay to do dumb/crazy stuff so you get some money
- When shoppers see the runners coming though their stores, there will be incidents and people talking about it which means free advertising for next year
- Giving poor guys dragged along to shop at 5 in the morning something to laugh at
Negatives:
- Haven't thought of any - pretty sure this is a fool-proof idea
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