It’s that time of year again! No, not indoor track season. It’s the holiday season, and most importantly, we are squarely in the 25-day period when Hallmark, Lifetime, Netflix, and pretty much every other network and streaming service fart out a bunch of low-budget, barely coherent made-for-TV movies that mix up a reliable recipe of ‘90s heartthrobs, fake snow, and titles made from every Christmas-related pun in the book.

At the pace they’re going, sometime in the next 1-3 years, they’re going to run out of ideas for new films. And hey, if Hot Frosty can go from silly tweet to fully-realized Netflix film about a sexy snowman coming to life, maybe our newsletter can generate some new original content. (If any studio execs are reading, TLC owns the rights to all these but we are willing to negotiate a fair deal.)

By next December, you could be mixing up some hot cocoa and cuddling up under a blanket to watch one of the following films:

Dashing Through The Snow: Local run specialty store owner Joe reunites with Olympic champion-slash-college-sweetheart Emma, who’s returned to her hometown in Colorado for the holidays. Together, they use her fame to stage a Christmas Eve 5k and save the struggling small business when the whole town signs up for the road race.

Home Meet For The Holidays: Oh no! The last big home meet of the year is in jeopardy as Holly, an assistant coach at Rudolph University, finds a winter storm has damaged the track right before the big Holiday Invitational. Lucky, local track repairman Olli saves the day – and the indoor season.

Meet Me In Boston: All-American Habtom meets the girl of his dreams at the NCAA XC Championship, but they don’t exchange names and numbers after the race and all she has to remember him is his lost racing spike (yes, this one is also Cinderella-themed). Will she reunite with her Prince Charming after all when he heads to the BU track two weeks later for a fast 5000m?

A Club Nats Christmas: Inspired by true events, two cross-country runners happen to meet in the finish chute at Club XC Nationals. Zack needs a date for his family holiday party later that day, and the mysterious distance runner from out of town just might be the Christmas gift of his dreams.

All I Want For Christmas Is A PB: Two runners from rival run clubs always seem to be battling for team points at the finish line. At first, it seems like the beef between Jingle Bell TC and the Racin’ Reindeer might be too much to overcome, but after the big New Year’s Eve race, Chris and Kari realize that the real team trophy was true love.

Running Down The Leads: This murder mystery meets PG-rated, hamfisted romance opens with dedicated local jogger Grace Faith happening upon a corpse out on the trail. (A murdered corpse. Wearing holiday regalia!) She reports her discovery to jocular small town cop Mike Jawline, and a steamy and decidedly not by-the-books investigation leads to a discovery that will rock the town – and their courtship.

The Miracle Miles: Former state champion runner Sharlene, now 32, something of a mess, and a few glasses of bubbly deep, accepts a dare on New Year’s Eve: run the town record in the marathon that year. Well, it’s December 21st… and she hasn’t done it yet. So with two weeks to make good on her promise, she sets to work with a little help from all sorts of endearing townies! Halfway through the movie cuts out abruptly and is replaced by an infomercial for a weighted blanket that is attached to a small microwave.

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