Big Fat ADVENTure

December 1 - 24, 2020 | Hosts: Karen Laberee & Doris Leong

A special year demands a special celebration. This year we bring you 24 days of advent calendar-inspired holiday cheer!

Each Sunday at 3:15pm, the elves will open up the Big Fat advent calendar to reveal your next series of routes via Facebook livestream. Routes will be posted on the website shortly after the livestream. All your favourites from the 12 Fattest Days of Christmas will be back, along with a swath of new tracks to expand our Christmas song repertoire.

The elves will be keeping a close eye on seasonal conditions as they evolve. Current directive from the North Pole is that each set of routes can be completed at any time and any day within the week they are revealed. No reindeer sleigh teams or gathering in herds of more than 3. Pairs or trios physically-distanced is probably ok by Santa and Dr. Bonnie, and a good idea for personal safety on trails.

As always, the elves will be cobbling together festive prizes for those (fool)hardy types. We will draw at least one prize at the end of each week. Every event you complete and record on the Yuletide Results Log will give you one draw entry.

Take lots of photos, make creative posts on Strava or Facebook, support your fellow runners (virtually), and have fun! The car bar will be back next year. You can also send photos to islandfatass@gmail.com and we will share them with others on Facebook.

Registration is now closed for the full ADVENTurer's slipper prize draw.

Finally, as with any IFA event – leave no trace, so no trail markings (including gingerbread crumbs) of any kind!

Full ADVENTure Slipper Awardees! You will be contacted for prize pick-up.

• Andrew Barclay, Colleen Auringer, David Campbell, Elaine Galbraith, Greg Carson, Lisa Cyr-Cantwell, Lisa Fehr

*Other honourable finishers:

• Avery Gottfried, Eric Guillemot, Holland Gidney, John Cockburn, Karen Welwood, Kevin Jickling

Prize Draw Winners! Contact islandfatass@gmail.com to collect your prize.

Week 4:

• Spiced Rum: Andrew Galbraith, Greg Balchin, Pauline Nielsen, Roy Ellis, Kari Walker, Adam Nott

• Ornament: Mark Stephenson

• Mask: Lana Smith

Week 3:

• Ornament: Colin Goldblatt, Fiona Peters

• Mask: Kevin Jickling, Faron Anslow

• Marmot Stuffy #2: Alex Kortum

• Chicken Mile Champion Mugs: Armel Castellan, Sarah Burger

• Chicken Mile Best in Show: Pete Dumbelton

Week 2:

• Ornament: Ron Woolley, Lisa Fehr

• Mask: Lois Woolley, Colleen Auringer

• Marmot Stuffy #1: John Cockburn

Week 1:

• Ornament: Sarah Burger, Cory Bargen

• Mask: Greg Carson, Eric Guillemot

Week 4 - Complete between December 21-24 ONLY:

1. Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy

• GPX download: www.plotaroute.com/route/1374918

• RunGo: https://routes.rungoapp.com/route/XvgFniRe4G

2. Five Golden Rings

• GPX download: www.plotaroute.com/route/1349950

• RunGo: https://routes.rungoapp.com/route/XmUBNVFX8G

3. We Wish You A Merry Christmas

   • GPX download: www.plotaroute.com/route/1349967

   • RunGo: https://routes.rungoapp.com/route/85DFf5zm3d

4. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

• GPX download: www.plotaroute.com/route/1374289

• RunGo: https://routes.rungoapp.com/route/7LDpa8LXIq

Week 3 - Complete between December 14-20 ONLY:

1. Good King Wenceslas

• GPX download: www.plotaroute.com/route/1343938

• RunGo: https://routes.rungoapp.com/route/lNKFqYzruf

2. Seven Swans A-Swimming

• GPX download: www.plotaroute.com/route/1369664 *UPDATED Dec 13, 2020 @ 7:30pm

• RunGo: https://routes.rungoapp.com/route/nvhHEXFKAo

3. Three French Hens

• Chicken Mile! Like the Beer Mile but every lap you eat chicken wings. Vegetarian and vegan-friendly options are also available.

• Proof is required by video or photos to get credit for completing Three French Hens!

• Distance: 1 Mile – 400m track is the tradition but any 400m loop will do. In past years, this event was held at the track next to Esquimalt High School, on Colville Rd. (https://goo.gl/maps/8K9droKcRvzBEwCy5)

• French hen options:

  • Official chicken wings are from Chicken on the Run - the “Dusty” Hot Wings make it a challenge! Open Tuesday to Sunday at 3:00 – 9:30 pm - 405 Craigflower Road https://www.chickenontherunvictoria.com/menu.html.

• Homemade or other chicken wings (support local!) are allowed this year to add convenience

• Boiled eggs as a vegetarian option (pre-peeling is allowed)

• Falafel balls (made with CHICKpeas) as a vegan option

• The sequence for a chicken mile is:

  • Start – Eat 1st Wing – Run 1^st Lap – Eat 2^nd Wing – Run 2^nd Lap – Eat 3^rd Wing – Run 3^rd Lap – Eat 4^th Wing – Run 4^th Lap – Finish

• The wing MUST be finished and swallowed before you start running your lap

• A penalty lap is added onto the end of the fourth lap for any competitor that vomits. One lap, regardless of how many vomits.

• Record holders:

  • 2019 Avery Gottfried - 8:07

  • 2019 Sarah Mitchell - 8:35

4. Twelve Drummers Drumming

• GPX download: www.plotaroute.com/route/1349959

• RunGo: https://routes.rungoapp.com/route/qeBoELHgoT

5. O' Christmas Tree

• GPX download: www.plotaroute.com/route/1358042

• RunGo: https://routes.rungoapp.com/route/MXgWeiy7Vu

6. I'll be Home (Holmes) for Christmas

• GPX download: www.plotaroute.com/route/1368943

• RunGo: https://routes.rungoapp.com/route/DBdKgpqAbT

7. Partridge in a Pear Tree

• GPX download: www.plotaroute.com/route/1349960

• RunGo: https://routes.rungoapp.com/route/k4Dm5HfW7s

Week 2 - Complete between December 7-13 ONLY:

1. Six Geese A-Laying

• 6 km or 6 miles, anywhere on the Galloping Goose trail (no Lochside or E&N)

2. Frosty the Snowman

• GPX download: www.plotaroute.com/route/1347782

• RunGo: https://routes.rungoapp.com/route/mHo9yGy8Zu

3. Four Calling Birds

• GPX download: www.plotaroute.com/route/1349949

• RunGo: https://routes.rungoapp.com/route/xsbZQOJOGI

4. Silver Bells

• GPX download: www.plotaroute.com/route/1347779

• RunGo: https://routes.rungoapp.com/route/ZGPhEgIlEs

5. I Saw Three Ships

• GPX download: www.plotaroute.com/route/1349962

• RunGo: https://routes.rungoapp.com/route/4FkmyjKJYu

6. Two Turtle Doves

• GPX download: www.plotaroute.com/route/1349948

• RunGo: https://routes.rungoapp.com/route/Q3iYy8Bd1n

7. Eight Maids A-Milking

• GPX download: www.plotaroute.com/route/1349954

• RunGo: https://routes.rungoapp.com/route/Gs3h3U3Sjn

Week 1 - Complete between December 1 -6 ONLY:

1. Ten Lords a-Leaping

• GPX download: www.plotaroute.com/route/1349957

• RunGo: https://routes.rungoapp.com/route/Yl2Ubd8j2X

2. Jingle Bell Rock

• GPX download: www.plotaroute.com/route/1343950 (original route)

• GPX download Alternative way back. Start once you reach the erratic with the original route: https://www.plotaroute.com/route/1360596

• RunGo: https://routes.rungoapp.com/route/7qVk15fypk (original route only)

3. It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

• Run at midnight, anywhere, for at least 12 minutes

4. Eleven Pipers Piping

• GPX download: www.plotaroute.com/route/1349958

• RunGo: https://routes.rungoapp.com/route/sznCxIy25H

5. Up on the Housetop

• GPX download: www.plotaroute.com/route/1350941

• RunGo: https://routes.rungoapp.com/route/HulxlBjW46

6. Nine Ladies Dancing

• GPX download: www.plotaroute.com/route/1349972

• RunGo: https://routes.rungoapp.com/route/RIGwnnnp4k