Hot Chocolate 5K

I took part in a charity race at the weekend and it was really fun! It was organised by RAM Racing in aid of the Illinois Bone and Joint Institute.


The race started at 7.40am so had to get up at 6am! Not ideal timing if it had been on the Sunday then it would have actually been light outside at that time (clocks went back an hour Sunday morning). Therefore 6am = pitch black + freezing cold!


Luckily the night before I had gone to Old Navy (added onto the Rachel's favorite shops list!) and bought a thermal/fleece jumper and gloves.

It was really fun and lovely to be so near the lake that early and see the sun rise. The only thing that I would say is that the course was not that well thought out; there were 35,000 people racing and lots of bottle necks, in particular when they were giving out the Gatorade.

The best part of all was the end...not just because of the obvious but we got this....

Hot melted Ghirardelli