This year we found another great reason to get outside and try to walk/run off some of the holiday treats!
As much as I would love to call myself a serious runner I am really in it to stay semi in shape and have a reason to stay motivated. This year my friend found a new race coming to Tennessee called “The Santa Hustle”. The race organizers promised a Santa hat, Santa beard, T-shirt and free chocolate chip cookies! Wow sign me up…oh yeah I am trying to stay in shape but really, what could one cookie do? ha
So the entire family signs up to travel east one hour to the fun and crowded town of Pigeon Forge TN at the foot of the Great Smokey Mountain National Park.
The race was held at The Wilderness Lodge which has an indoor water park and the kid has been wanting to try it out so we booked a room with the special race discount! We packed our warm running clothes and our bathing suit (which is just odd to do mid December in Tennessee) and we had a blast. The water rides and huge hot tub, wave pool and surfing was a huge hit with the kids.
The watepark kept us busy all night and we even played arcade games and lazer tag. I had to make everyone get to bed if we were going to be down to race at the crack of dawn!
The race itself was a flat course, although a little boring on the main travel road-the volunteers made it fun however by offering chocolate covered cherries along the way, hot chocolate, and more . The after race party had of course, Santa’s favorite-cookies and milk (I did have more than one). There was music playing and huge Christmas character blow ups and cheering crowd! We all had an amazing race day and the people were so crazy in holiday costumes.
We will try to make this a new Christmas tradition and next year I may have to dress up!
Here we are in our freebies! Aren’t we cute?
The grounds were all decorated…
And so were the people!
Everyone had a great time and it was very festive!
Outside Fun and Inside Fun all at Wilderness Lodge!
