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Resolution Run 5K & Optional 'Trip-n-Drip' Polar Bear Dive
Club Northwest invites you to Magnuson Park on January 1st for this whopper of a good time! Celebrating the beginning of the new year, the event consists of a 5K run/walk that has an optional Polar Bear Dive into Lake Washington just prior to the event finish line area. The post-race celebration includes a free kids dash for children 10 & under, a beer garden for those over 21 and a free chili feed for all.
Stay Dry or Choose the Polar Bear Dive
Participants in this 3.1 mile run/walk can choose to stay dry and compete in the standard 5K run/walk or they can choose to select the optional Polar Bear Dive 5K that takes a brief detour into Lake Washington roughly 100 yards before the 5K finish line. Results for the standard 5K and the Polar Bear 5K will be scored separately. Roughly 60% of the 1,780+ race registrants last year chose the Polar Bear Dive option.
Important Venue Update
For those who attended the 2010 event, please take note that we are moving the Post-Race Celebration area to the cement parking lot adjacent to the finish line rather than on the grass area near the lake that became a swampy mud pit last year. Rain or shine, the changing tents won't have ponds in them.
You can find a partner and compete in the Polar Bear Dive portion of the event as a two-person team. Times of the two team members will be added together with the fastest teams in each of our three age categories (male-female, male-male, female-female) winning prizes.
Where:
Magnuson Park (7400 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle)
Enter the park at the NE 65th street entrance and follow the event signs to the water. Please review the course map that includes recommended parking lot areas.
Day of Race Schedule:
9:00 a.m. - Registration & Packet Pickup opens
10:00 a.m. - Beer Garden opens
10:30 a.m. - Start of all 5K run/walk events
11:30 a.m. - Free Kid's Dash starts
11:45 a.m. - Awards Ceremony
1:30 p.m. - Beer Garden closes
Post-Race Celebration:
Celebrate the New Year after the race! Located steps from the finish line area and the Polar Bear Launch location, the Post-Race Celebration will include free chili, free hot chocolate and free other tasty foods from our sponsors. To help keep you warm, we will have lit wood in the fire pits. More details available here.
Washington Energy Services Heated Changing Room Tents:
Thanks to Washington Energy Services, we will have two heated gender specific changing room tents onsite for the Polar Bear Dive participants to use to change into their dry clothes.
Post-Race Beer Garden:
Those 21 and over can celebrate the New Year in our onsite beer garden. We will have multiple beer types for sale. Cure your hangover or start a new one.