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SKECHERS Hot Chocolate Run Nashville

07:207:20 AM Nashville
Nashville
© OpenStreetMap Nashville. Photograph by Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons . Course line © OpenStreetMap contributors

The course

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A slow rise of 35 m to km 9, then downhill home.

Start, finish

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  2. Photo: Kaldari, Public domain

km 0.8mile 0.5

Tennessee State Capitol

The organiser says all courses run in the shadow of the Capitol building.

Photo: Kaldari, Public domain

Height drawn many times taller than life. Heights: GEDTM30.

Course elevation profile, 8× vertical exaggeration Elevation along the course from km 0 to km 15. The trace runs between 127 and 164 metres, a range of 36 metres, drawn at 8 times vertical exaggeration so the shape is legible. Smoothed over 1 km before this profile was derived. An unsmoothed urban surface carries the buildings and would assert a climb that is not there. The dashed stretches are bridge decks: Church Street, km 5.2 to 5.7; Church Street, km 13 to 13.5. A bare-earth model reads the ground or the water beneath a bridge, not the deck the runner is on, so those runs are interpolated between the ground either side rather than measured, and they under-report the real climb across a span.
0 5 10 15 km
0 2 4 6 8 9.3 mi

Dashed: bridge

  • slow rise to 9
  • downhill home
The course in short 2 lines
  • A 15K between 127 and 164 metresLowest at 1.6 km, highest at 9.5 km, 55.9 m of climbing.
  • Start and finish at the Capitol MallOne park for start, finish and the post-race party.
Course notes 2 short reads on the course
km 0 to 15.2GradientA 15K between 127 and 164 metresLowest at 1.6 km, highest at 9.5 km, 55.9 m of climbing.

The road rises and falls inside a band 36.2 m deep. The low point, 127.4 m, comes at 1.6 km, soon after the start in Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park; the high point, 163.5 m, at 9.5 km.

Measured

Whole courseLandmarkStart and finish at the Capitol MallOne park for start, finish and the post-race party.

The organiser lists the Tennessee State Capitol, the Parthenon in Centennial Park, the 95-Bell Carillon and Bicentennial Park as the Nashville course highlights. The 5K starts at 6:30 AM, the 10K and 15K at 7:20 AM, with 10K and 15K runners in their corral by 7:05 AM.

Sourced

Race fuel

Energy gel
An energy gel sachet
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Race fuel for Nashville

One gel every 40 minutes once you are past about 75 minutes of running, plus a spare.

Our pick: SiS BETA Fuel gel, box of 6, strawberry and lime. 40 g of carbohydrate a gel, about twice a usual gel, from two kinds of sugar your body takes up side by side.

Easy to forget on race morning: pack them with your bib the night before.

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In Canada the button opens GU Energy Gel, Salted Caramel, 24-pack, the best seller there.

Outside the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the UK and Ireland, Spain and Portugal, Italy, the rest of the EU and Canada the button opens GU Energy Gel, Chocolate Outrage, 24-pack on Amazon.com, the best seller there.

Anti-chafe
Compeed Anti-blister stick
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Compeed

Compeed anti-blister stick, 8 ml

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An invisible layer before the start keeps seams, straps and shoes from rubbing skin raw.

Put it on before you leave for the start: heels and toes, inner thighs, under a bra or heart-rate strap.

Try it on a long run first, like everything you use on race day.

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Number belt
A race number belt
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Compressport Race Belt

Holds your bib without safety pins through your top, with loops for up to 8 gels.

Clip the bib on the night before, so it goes on with your shorts in the morning.

Keep the number on the front, where officials and photographers can see it.

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Electrolytes
A tube of electrolyte tablets
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SiS Hydro electrolyte tablets, tube of 20

One tablet in a bottle puts back some of the salt you sweat out.

One tablet in 500 ml of water in the hour before the start.

Only if you have used them in training: nothing new on race day.

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Blister plasters
Compeed Blister plasters, medium, 6
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Compeed

Compeed blister plasters, medium, 6

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One in a pocket cushions a blister if one starts.

Put it on clean, dry skin and leave it until it comes off by itself.

Give a couple to whoever comes to cheer, so they are there at the km you need them.

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climb
55.9 m183 ft

The SKECHERS Hot Chocolate Run Nashville course has 55.9 m (183 ft) of climbing. Its lowest point is 127 m (417 ft) and its highest 164 m (538 ft) above sea level. Next race: Saturday 27 March 2027, starting at 7:20 AM.

Race week

Timetable

Friday 26 March Expo

  1. 10:0010:00 AM–18:006:00 PM

    Expo and packet pick-up Free and open to the public. There is no race day packet pick-up.

Saturday 27 March Race day

  1. 06:306:30 AM

    5K start Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park. Gear check opens 60 minutes before the start time.

  2. 07:207:20 AM

    10K and 15K start Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park. Runners must be in their corral by 7:05 AM.

Times as published by the organiser, in Nashville time, checked .

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Trip

Getting a place

Entry through the organiser

Entry details on the organiser’s site →

The organiser, a third party. We take no entries and have no part in the race.

Sources and licence

Last checked.

Course line matched onto OpenStreetMap road geometry: (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License 1.0 (ODbL). Elevation sampled from GEDTM30, Global Ensemble Digital Terrain Model at 30 m (v1.2): Elevation: GEDTM30 (Ho & Hengl, OpenGeoHub), CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

Elevation gain computed by us from that line, smoothed over 1 kmsmoothed over 0.6 mi.

The line follows the road down its middle, so it measures 1.55% longer than the certified distance, which is measured on the shortest legal line through every bend.

Date and entry information from the organiser.

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