Hot Chocolate 2013
Last March, I ran the Hot Chocolate 5k with my husband and my friend. This is a race recap that is obviously a long time coming. But, sometimes.... well. Things take a while. That explains why I'm still putting photos into albums from when my 10-year-old was three. Ahem. So, back to a race that was only seven months ago... not seven years. Yay! Once I heard about the Hot Chocolate, I knew I had to run it. For the chocolate at the end, of course! We live four hours from Seattle, so we drove over the day before and hung out at the Space Needle. We watched Jack the Giant Slayer on IMAX and then turned in for the night. Race day begins early... really, really early. That morning we just walked to the race start with a few other runners we met in the lobby. Lots of people we met were running their very first 5k. What a precedent! My first 5k was our town's local Fourth of July Fun Run. Twenty-five people, no water...