I got up at 5:20 am on a Saturday to participate in the Hot Chocolate 5k along with 20,000 others. This is part of a series or chocolate themed races in cities across the U.S. If I were to go into details on how awful this race was it would be one of those scrolling blogs that no one would read. Instead, I'll just link to this article written in the DCist yesterday that summarizes what is now being called an "Epic Fail". On to the race report. . . .
Apparently all the good local runners have a 6th sense for bad races or didn't make it to the start due to 495 traffic (see article). I ran 18:53 under the name Kevin Kozacek which was good for 3rd overall. The race was sold out 2 weeks ago so I wasn't planning on running until Friday evening when I found out a friend of a friend would not be able to race. Under the circumstances I was happy with sub-19. I ran a hard 4 mile run on Tuesday (a Pat designed Dusty Spike workout) so I wasn't complete rested. Also, this course had two long climbs including the last 1/2 mile which has never been my forte (anyone remember the Penn St. Invitational?) I would have liked to take a shot at sub-18 but that will probably have to wait until Spring.
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