“With all of our events forced to go virtual this year, we’ve had some time to brainstorm,” said Jamie Monroe, owner of Easy Day Sports. “I read an article about a Costco in Kennewick, WA that sold 14,658 pumpkin pies over three days and thought, who doesn’t love pie… let’s give some away with a Thanksgiving run!”
As an event company during COVID-19, Easy Day Sports has had to get creative because they were forced to transition all 10 of the live events they put on annually to virtual in 2020. Since running events are currently classified as gatherings, there is no foreseeable future to when in-person running events will be back. As the event company for the Crown City Classic (Coronado’s 4th of July Run), they are hopeful that their live running events will be back in summer 2021.
“For us, the Pie Run is a chance to test an event concept to see if it may be worth holding a similar in-person event next year. It has also been a great chance for us to raise funds this Thanksgiving for Community Through Hope – the South Bay’s only Foodbank,” said Jamie. Easy Day Sports is also having some fun with it, hoping they are giving you pumpkin to run about so you can squash your fitness goals or at least burn some calories.
You can register for either a Virtual 5K or a 2418 calorie challenge at http://greatpierun.com for $35. Easy Day Sports will be handing out pies and sweatshirts from their office at 124 Orange Avenue on Wednesday Nov 25th and Thursday Nov 26th from 8:30am-10:30am.