The fundraiser for the Cancer Society was held at the Abbotsford home of John and Julie Moyle on Saturday and dozens of people joined them in running or walking around their section and sampling what was on offer from a barbecue.
Mrs Moyle said they had wanted to raise $5000, but hit $10,000.
A revamped Relay For Life had been planned for Dunedin’s Forsyth Barr Stadium this year, but had to be called off because of risks associated with Covid-19.
Gatherings cannot exceed 100 people under the Covid-19 Red traffic light setting.
"We decided to adopt Relay Your Way," using the flexible format to enable a smaller-scale event to go ahead, Mrs Moyle said.
It started with an opening ceremony featuring bagpipes, and 2021 Gold Guitar Awards runner-up Casey Dixon, of Dunedin, provided entertainment.
Powerful elements of the regular event, such as celebrating survivors and carers, and lighting candles to remember people lost to cancer, were retained in the programme.
Mr Moyle has had cancer twice.
He had to confront testicular cancer in 2006 and throat cancer in 2020.
Mrs Moyle said it was important to fight back against the damage wrought by cancer and to do something about reduced funding for the Cancer Society that resulted from Covid-19 causing disruption.
She had vowed last month Covid-19 would not get in the way of an alternative relay event.
"Having John in hospital during our first Alert Level 4 lockdown proves cancer doesn’t stop for Covid-19, so neither will we."
Mr and Mrs Moyle own the FreshChoice supermarket in Green Island.
They have taken part in every Dunedin Relay for Life event since its inception.
