God, it’s like the cops threatened to round up the entire Salvation Army.

There’s going to be more Santas running around than a Dec. 18 fire at the Mall of America.

Opportunity Village is looking to set the record for the largest gathering of Santas at the 5k Las Vegas Great Santa Run at Town Square at 10 a.m. Saturday with Kurt Busch, Oscar Goodman, Sen. John Ensign and entertainment by Zowie Bowie, Yellow Brick Road, Phat Strad, Jeff Civillico and Dr. Zhivegas. There’s both a 5k and a mile run around Town Square

It is, apparently, a good weekend to run, because the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon is going on too, with the Sin City Sinners and Donovan Frankenreiter providing entertainment for the race benefiting the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America. That one starts from Las Vegas Boulevard after everyone gathers at the Mandalay Bay parking lot and the course runs from Industrial to Twain to Decatur to Hacienda all the way up to Spanish Trail for the marathon, with half marathon and marathon-and-a-half taking alternate routes.

This of course, assumes you’re happy to spend your weekend running all over the city instead of nestled snugly in your hangover. We trust you and copious amounts of rum will make the right decision.

By Jason Scavone

They totally should’ve dyed some of the tigers red. (Photo by Ethan Miller | Getty Images)

Siegfried and Roy were at the Great Santa Run on Saturday with more than 5,500 other Clauses (Clausi?) at the Fremont Street Experience, rolling up to the starting line in a Bentley convertible before the charity race to benefit Opportunity Village.

For those more determined to get put through the paces, the Las Vegas Marathon on Sunday saw more than 11,000 finish either the full or half-marathon that started in 48 degree weather before dawn. Hey, look, it’s the three things we hate the most: Running, early morning and cold. When we die and go to Hell, it’s just going to be one endless, bleary-eyed marathon.

There were 178 Elvii running, and 47 couples were married on the course. One man proposed at the finish line. She accepted. Although for comedy’s sake, she should’ve said no to the guy who just ran 26 miles.

Former Palms employee Abebe Yimer took the overall with a time of 2 hours, 27 minutes, 27 seconds, ahead of the second-place finisher, Geoffrey Kiprotich of Coon Rapid, Minn., by 32 seconds.

By Jason Scavone

There’s no way they’re going to have enough cookies and milk for this.

If for some weird reason you want to spend your weekend outside and running (we can’t begin to imagine why you would, but whatever), you can go back-to-back with the Great Santa Run on Saturday starting from the 3rd Street stage downtown, and the Las Vegas Marathon Sunday departing from Mandalay Bay.

That Santa Run, which benefits Opportunity Village, has to be the biggest collection of sweaty faux fur in the country. Even more than Don Magic Juan’s closet. Just a sea of red velvet and gritty determination. Although instead of water stations, volunteers should hand out nog.

Four expert runners are going in the marathon: Geoffrey Kiprotich and Stephen Kibet of Kenya, and Abebe Yimer of Ethiopia on the men’s side and Nadezhda Tuptova of Russia on the women’s. So there you go, amateurs. You have to run against Kenyans. Doesn’t seem worth getting up at 6 a.m. all of a sudden, now does it?

By Jason Scavone