Petts Wood Classic Christmas Lights Running Tour 2023

We're so excited to be twinkling through London's Christmas Lights with Petts Wood running club for another year!

On a brand new route for 2023, your Christmas-loving guides will lead you through the best Christmas lights in Mayfair and the West End, with Christmas tunes pumping as you go, and plenty of pho-ho-to ops along the way. You'll jingle through the lights in small groups of 15-20 runners of a similar pace. Petts Wood Running Club groups 1-4 will run 5k and groups 5-11 will run 8k.

What's included

• See all the main lights displays in the West End/Mayfair
• A Christmas-loving run guide for each group
• Festive tunes as you go-ho-ho
• Loads of photo ops (we'll get some group pics for you too)
• Snack at the finish-line
• 2 hours of free bag storage (more info when you sign up).
• Prize for the best fancy dress

Route highlights

• Carnaby Street lights
• Regent Street 
• Annabel's display
• Bond Street lights
• Trafalgar Square tree
• Seven Dials display
• Oxford Street lights
• Lots more of the big displays and hidden gems along the way.

Pace

When you sign you'll select a ticket based on groups 1-12 of Petts Wood Running Club groups. Please select the the ticket of the group you would like to run with for the Christmast Lights Tour and not the group you would normally run with (E.g. If you are a group 11 runner but want to run with friends who run in group 6, then please select group 6.)  The tour will be 5k for groups 1-4 and 8k for groups 5-12.

Where to meet

The tour starts and ends on Craven Street, next to Charing Cross station, which has the best free public toilets in London! Meet us on the pedestrian part of Craven Street, close to its intersection with the Strand. Please arrive 5-10 minutes before the start of your tour, ready to run.

Will we stop at the lights?

Yes - we stop to admire the lights, take photos and give you a little bit of festive history too.

Duration

The tour usually takes about 1.5 hours, but it varies depending on the pace of the gentlest runner in the group, the number of pictures you'd like taken and how many questions you have for your guide. 

What to wear

Festive fancy dress / Christmas leggings & hats very much encouraged. Please make sure you're wearing enough for the tour which is stop-start by nature. There will be a prize for the best fancy dress.

Can't wait to jingle all the way with you.