Your plan in four answers
Hot Chocolate Nashville has not announced its next date, so we have estimated February. Change the date below once you know it.
- Distances
- 5K, 10K, 15K
- Terrain
- Rolling
Course
The Hot Chocolate Nashville course
The Nashville stop on the national Hot Chocolate series, starting and finishing at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park. A large, festive field across a 5K, a 10K, and a 15K, with the 15K drawing the more competitive runners and the shorter distances bringing everyone else.
Read the full course notes
The chocolate at the finish is a bigger part of the pitch than the course is.
- Terrain
- Rolling
- Distances
- 5K, 10K, 15K
- Weather on race day
- A cold-weather race by design. Expect a genuinely cold start and dress in layers you can shed.
What to train for
The 15K is an awkward, useful distance: too long to sprint, too short to jog.
Threshold intervals and a long run of ten to twelve miles cover it well.
Sample week
A sample Hot Chocolate Nashville training week
A week from the middle of the build, about six weeks out. Your plan sets the real distances and paces from your own fitness and adjusts them every week as you train.
- Monday
- Rest, or 20 minutes of mobility
- Tuesday Key session
- Intervals: 5 × 1 km at 5K to 10K effort, easy jog between
- Wednesday
- Easy run, 5–6 mi
- Thursday Key session
- Goal-pace run, 7 mi with 4 mi at race pace
- Friday
- Recovery run, 4 mi, or cross-train
- Saturday Key session
- Long run, 10–12 mi easy
- Sunday
- Easy run, 4 mi, then 6 relaxed strides
Taper
Tapering for the Hot Chocolate Nashville
Start the taper ten to fourteen days before race day. Cut your weekly volume by about a third, then by half in race week, and keep a few short efforts at race pace so your legs stay sharp. The course rolls, so keep one short session on undulating ground in the first taper week.
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Hot Chocolate Nashville training questions
How long should I train for the Hot Chocolate Nashville?
Most runners give a 15k twelve to fourteen weeks of focused training on top of an existing base. The plan above counts back from your actual race date, so if you have less time than that it builds the best plan the remaining weeks allow rather than pretending you have longer.
Is the Hot Chocolate Nashville course hilly?
Rolling. The Nashville stop on the national Hot Chocolate series, starting and finishing at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park.
What is the weather usually like at the Hot Chocolate Nashville?
A cold-weather race by design. Expect a genuinely cold start and dress in layers you can shed.
When should I start tapering for the Hot Chocolate Nashville?
Start the taper ten to fourteen days before race day. Cut your weekly volume by about a third, then by half in race week, and keep a few short efforts at race pace so your legs stay sharp. The course rolls, so keep one short session on undulating ground in the first taper week.
Do I need an account to get a Hot Chocolate Nashville training plan?
No. The plan above builds in your browser with no account, no email, and no card. Make a free account only if you want to keep it, log your runs against it, and have the coach keep adapting it as your training goes.