Mayday, mayday, runners coming through!
They did so as part of the May Day Dash, a community run organised by We Do Creative in aid of the Salt40 Foundation – a local NGO that focuses on youth upliftment through sport.
Runners took on the same route used for the popular race which starts and ends at Hops Ballito on the first Sunday of every month. The route is a 5.6km loop which includes a good bit of hill training up Hillary Drive.
The Hops run was recently rebranded as Rock Up & Run with new partner Balwin Properties, but the rest of the activities remain the same.
'It's the same format on the first Sunday of every month, starting at 7am, and runners get a free beer, wine or coffee at Hops afterwards,' said We Do Creative's Amanda Howard.
'We also do three fundraisers for Salt40 every year, the first of which was the May Day Dash. The next will be the Run Your Roots event on Heritage Day and Run Out 25 on New Year's Eve.'
You can enter via racepass.com/za – search Hops to find them. The first 200 entries at all the fundraising runs receive commemorative shirts.
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