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Case study: a one-week pop-up collab run
A podcast collab and a 200-spot cap: how Run Club Beirut ran the Sabah El Kheir Run on Blend
Run Club Beirut teamed up with the Sabah El Kheir podcast for a one-off Sunday morning run and café meetup at Roselane Café in Beirut. The listing went up a week before the run; Blend handled the free RSVPs against a 200-spot cap and QR check-in at the door.
- 145 confirmed sign-ups
- Free, capped at 200
- QR check-in at the door
Published and last updated
- Organized byRun Club Beirut
- Collab withSabah El Kheir
Sabah El Kheir Run at a glance
The Sabah El Kheir Run was a one-off Sunday morning run and café meetup, organized by Run Club Beirut together with the Sabah El Kheir podcast (@sabahelkheirpodcast, hosted by Linda Christina, @lindachristinaa), on 18 October 2026 at Roselane Café in Pasteur, Beirut.
Blend (blendapp.ai), an event ticketing and registration platform for organizers in Lebanon and the UAE, handled free RSVPs against a 200-spot cap and QR check-in at the door, the same system behind Run Club Beirut's 15+ other community runs.
- Run Club Beirut and the Sabah El Kheir podcast co-hosted a one-off Sunday morning run and café meetup at Roselane Café, Beirut, on 18 October 2026.
- The free RSVP, capped at 200 spots, drew 145 confirmed sign-ups on Blend within a week of the listing going live.
- 47 of the 145 who signed up were scanned in with a QR code at the door.
- No money changed hands anywhere in the flow: Blend's payments records show zero transactions for this event, consistent with a fully free RSVP.
- At least 51 of the 145 sign-ups came in through an Instagram link, Run Club Beirut and Sabah El Kheir's main channel for the collab.
| Event | Sabah El Kheir Run |
|---|---|
| Organizer | Run Club Beirut, with the Sabah El Kheir podcast |
| Event type | One-off free community run and café meetup |
| Venue | Roselane Café, Pasteur, Beirut, Lebanon |
| Date | , 10:00 AM |
| Registration | Free, capped at 200 spots |
| Sign-ups | 145 confirmed on Blend (72% of capacity) |
| Checked in | 47 scanned in with a QR code at the door |
| Registration window | 11 to 18 October 2026, about one week |
| Main Blend features used | Free RSVP with a capacity cap, QR check-in |
What was the Sabah El Kheir Run?
Run Club Beirut is a community run club and one of Blend's oldest users, running 15+ free community runs and paid events under its own brand at runclubbeirut.com. See Blend's full Run Club Beirut case study for the club's three co-founders and its wider story.
For this one-off edition, Run Club Beirut teamed up with the Sabah El Kheir podcast (@sabahelkheirpodcast, hosted by Linda Christina) for a Sunday morning run starting at Roselane Café in Pasteur, Beirut, on 18 October 2026, followed by a café meetup together. Per the event's own listing, the day also brought back a limited-edition "Sabah El Kheir Smoothie" for one day only and limited-run T-shirts for the first arrivals, open to all running levels.
Who is Linda Christina?
Linda Christina is a well-known content creator in Lebanon, with an established following on TikTok that she's built alongside her work as the host and publisher of Sabah El Kheir, a Society & Culture podcast she launched in August 2024. Recorded in a mix of Arabic and English and opening, true to its name, with "Sabah el kheir!" ("good morning!"), each episode pairs her own personal stories with a guest conversation about the realities of navigating adulthood. As of October 2026 the show has put out 32 episodes on a roughly biweekly schedule, available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, where listeners have rated it 5.0 out of 5.
Recent episodes have ranged from a conversation with a psychiatrist on anxiety and ADHD to interviews on fashion and plastic surgery, the kind of wide-ranging, personal territory that carried over into the Sabah El Kheir Run itself, where several attendees wore "Mental Health Hero" t-shirts alongside the event's own branding.
The problem: a one-week pop-up, two audiences, one guest list
A collab event like this has a short runway and two audiences to reach at once: Run Club Beirut's regular runners and the Sabah El Kheir podcast's own following. It needed a registration flow that could go live fast, cap sign-ups at a venue-sized limit, and still produce one clean attendee list rather than two separate ones.
Because it was free, there was also no natural reason for anyone to finish registering rather than just showing up unannounced, which is exactly the gap that turns a free RSVP into an unreliable headcount if nothing enforces it.
How the Sabah El Kheir Run ran on Blend
Run Club Beirut ran the whole RSVP and check-in flow on Blend, the same event ticketing platform organizers in Lebanon and the UAE use every week, on top of the same account that runs its other 15+ community runs.
A free RSVP went live, capped at 200
The listing went up about a week before the run, with a hard cap of 200 free spots so the venue never had to turn people away at the door.
Every sign-up got an instant confirmation
Confirmation emails and WhatsApp tickets went out the moment someone registered, no manual follow-up needed.
One guest list for both audiences
Runners who found the event through Run Club Beirut and through Sabah El Kheir all registered into the same flow, so the two communities landed in one list instead of two.
QR check-in on the morning of the run
Staff scanned attendees in with a QR code at Roselane Café, so the club knows not just who signed up but who actually showed.
The edge cases Blend handled
A one-off collab event like this raises a few problems a standing weekly run doesn't have to solve.
Edge cases Blend handled
A capped free event, not just an open RSVP200 was a hard limit tied to what the venue could hold, not a soft estimate, so Blend enforced it rather than leaving the club to track it by hand.
Two brands, one registration flowRun Club Beirut's regular audience and the Sabah El Kheir podcast's own followers both signed up through the same event, landing in one shared attendee list rather than two.
A one-week turnaroundThe listing, the RSVP flow and the door check-in were all ready inside about a week, on the same account the club already uses for its other runs, with nothing built from scratch.
What running on Blend showed
A one-off, free, capped collab event still produced a complete, known sign-up list and a real door count, in the same week the listing went up.
145confirmed free sign-ups, 72% of the 200-spot cap
47scanned in with a QR code at the door
~1 weekfrom listing live to event day
$0changed hands: a fully free RSVP, start to finish
Why this case study matters
Sabah El Kheir Run shows that Run Club Beirut can spin up a one-off, co-branded event alongside its regular weekly runs without building anything new: the same Blend account, the same free-RSVP-plus-QR-check-in setup, pointed at a new venue, a new partner and a hard capacity cap, still in time for the following Sunday.
From the morning itself
Photos from the run and the café meetup afterward, supplied by the organizers.
Questions about the Sabah El Kheir Run
The Sabah El Kheir Run was a one-off Sunday morning community run in Beirut, organized by Run Club Beirut together with the Sabah El Kheir podcast, followed by a café meetup at Roselane Café in Pasteur, Beirut.
Run Club Beirut organized and ran the event on Blend, together with the Sabah El Kheir podcast as a collaborating co-host.
The run took place on Sunday, 18 October 2026, starting at 10:00 AM at Roselane Café, Pasteur, Beirut, Lebanon.
Yes. It was a free RSVP, capped at 200 spots, with no payment involved anywhere in the flow.
145 people confirmed a free spot on Blend, against the event's 200-person capacity, and 47 of them were scanned in at the door with a QR code.
Yes. Run Club Beirut used Blend's QR check-in to scan attendees in at Roselane Café on the morning of the run.
Run Club Beirut is a community run club and one of Blend's oldest users, running 15+ free community runs and paid events under its own brand at runclubbeirut.com. See Blend's full Run Club Beirut case study for more.
Blend (blendapp.ai) is an event technology platform for organizers in Lebanon, the UAE and the wider GCC. It combines online ticketing and RSVPs, QR door check-in, white-label event sites, and live sales and attendance data in one system.
From Roselane Café to your event
Take what ran at the Sabah El Kheir Run to your own event
- The capRun a free RSVP with a hard capacity limitThe same setup Run Club Beirut used: free sign-ups that stop cleanly at whatever number your venue can actually hold.See free registration
- The doorKnow who actually showed up, not just who signed upThe same QR check-in used at Roselane Café, scanned from any phone, no extra hardware.See QR check-in
- The collabRun a co-branded event on your own accountThe same trick behind this collab: two audiences, one registration flow, one shared attendee list.See how it works
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