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This weekend makes back-to-back weeks of holiday themed road runs for Bill’s Bike & Run.The annual Christmas Gift 5k takes place 10 a.m. Saturday at Snake River Landing, featuring hats, ornaments, hot chocolate and a visit by Santa. Doug Swanson of Bill’s Bike & Run and Live Forward Performance (formerly known as the late Michael Hays’ organization, Personal Best Performance) said the race has become quite the tradition among the eastern Idaho running community and among Bill’s Bike & Run employees.“We’ll have 200 people at it,” Swanson said Wednesday by phone. “We give away a very nice stocking cap hat. Great Harvest puts a cookie in the bags. It’s a good time.”The stocking cap hats and ornaments have become tradition for the Gift 5k also. Bill’s Bike & Run votes on a design for each year’s hat, which are included with registration for each runner while supplies last. The 2017 hats featured penguins while this year’s hats are red, white and blue with white trees and snowflakes on them.Swanson said the ornaments are distributed to runners instead of medals. Last year’s ornaments were delayed by FedEx, unable to be delivered by race day. To avoid that scenario happening this year, Swanson said colleague Gray Augustus purchased several clear ornaments for this year’s race which will be decorated with stickers by AlphaGraphics

What I’ll be doing tomorrow night is putting stickers on the ornaments,” Swanson said.Perhaps what is the most enduring aspect of the race is toy donations — hence the inspiration for the name. Swanson said 120 toy donations were completed by last year’s participants. He added that the Idaho Falls Youth Hockey Association has been a big help in recent years with fundraising efforts that have benefited various locations such as Toys for Tots and organizations who put together Christmas baskets.“We just talk to people and ask, ‘Who do you think is in the most need?’” Swanson said of choosing where to send toy donations. “I think most of our stuff this year will go to St. Vincent de Paul. We’ve donated bikes over there, too.”