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A mugful of hot chocolate sits on a trail that thousands run on every year. The Hot Chocolate Run is an annual choice of a 5k or 25k and is hosted by the insurance company, Allstate. (Photo by Pavan Kolluru) RUN FOR WARMTH Few things would make running in freezing temperatures worth it except maybe a nice cup of hot chocolate. That is the purpose of the Hot Chocolate Run, “America’s sweetest race”. “All finishers, from top to bottom, get hot chocolate, a medal and a care package,” Rana Shaker, a sophomore who will be competing in the race for the first time said. “You just have to finish the race.” The race offers a five kilometer run and a 10 kilometer run. The St. Louis race is on Nov. 24 and set in Forest Park. “I just want to stay on track with my running,” Shaker said. “Last year I stopped running after cross country, and that didn’t help me during track season. I just thought that by running [the race] my endurance will stay up and my speed will increase.” Since the Hot Chocolate Run’s 2008 inaugural run in Chicago, it has had over 200,000 participants with runs in 24 cities from San Francisco to Charlotte. A 5k run is longer than three miles. That doesn’t scare Lilian Cash, another sophomore and first time Hot Chocolate Run racer. “I’ll be doing the 5k because that’s what I’m used to,” Cash said. “I’m currently still going to [off-season] cross country practices. The past few months I’ve had consistent practice and I’ve already been doing 5ks so I’m pretty used to them.” The frigid cold presents a change of environment compared to the races one would expect in the summer or spring, a change competitors will have to adapt to. “The air is very thin so it’s harder to breathe and your heart constricts,” Shaker said. “What I do is wear a lot of layers, two layers of pants and three layers on top. It hurts your ears when the wind is whooshing, so I cover my ears.” (Story by Connor Peper) Senior Emma Temper and freshman Emma Landwehr passionately play their flutes in a performance of Freeze, the FHN’s marching band set. The marching band played at every home football game and performed at competitions. The band qualified for finals in the Sullivan Marching Festival. (Photo by Courtney Wortman) THat’s a wrap FHN’s marching band season has ended after months of competitions by Macy Cronin macycronin03@gmail.com F HN’s marching band starts to thaw from their fall Freeze. The show took hundreds of hours of practice and many sleepless nights from students, but with hard work came the successes of the season. “[The show was] about being a kid and having fun in the snow,” Stegeman said “You UPCOMING SHOWS get in your overalls, right. You pad yourself up, put three layers of socks on because you know you are going to get wet. You are trying desperately to not get your body wet with the cold water of the snow. It’s about that, being a kid and going out having fun in the snow.” Each new marching band season jumps off to a rocky start, but this one was especially hard for them because of the intricacy that the show held. “This year was a hard show, you got ‘how big are those ramps out there’ that people are sliding down and you got kids dancing,” senior drum major Grace Sickendick said. “You are teaching nerds how to dance. I love them, I’m a nerd, I am a super nerd, but only a couple of these kids have a dance background or a sports background, so it’s a lot to put into one season.” Nov. 26 Choir/Jazz Concert at FHC January* Knight Pride Trivia Night Feb. 1 Missouri State Jazz Festival *Date not confirmed Throughout the season the band went on overnight trips and spent over 50 continuous hours with one another. “[Iowa] was a hard competition,” Sickendick said. “We had to compete at the buttcrack of dawn, but you know, it’s fun. As exhausting as it is from being together, you are able to go ‘Alright I don’t need to think about school right now, this is my band family.’” This season gave lots of opportunities for seniors. Senior Matthew Juhlin, despite this being only his second year in band, was placed in the position of drum major due to all his hard work. “It means a lot [to be a drum major],” Juhlin said. “It means that Mr. Stegeman trusts me enough to put me in that position despite not knowing me all that well, but I’m really glad he did because it has given me so many opportunities to push as hard as I can.” Marching band ended their season off with performing at St. Louis Super-Regional BOA, Bands of America, where they competed against bands in their class, or bands similar in their size. “I was extremely happy [at finding out FHN placed 11th in their class],” Juhlin said. “I wasn’t entirely sure how the run had gone after performing, but it was great to feel that it had been a really good last competition run.” 10 FHNTODAY.COM | 11.20.19 | NEWS PAGE BY IVY LOWERY
FHNTODAY PRESENTS MORE INFO Check out FHN’S Nerd Culture coverage here: bit.ly/FHNnerdculture NERD CULTURE Find popular nerdy movies and books from Harry Potter to Napoleon Dynamite. Watch an in-depth tutorial of how to play Dungeons and Dragons. Learn how to dress like a modern nerd from students at FHN Test your nerdy knowledge with a quiz on popular nerd culture. Learn about local businesses, ‘The Fantasy Shop’ and ‘The Collector’s Store.’ Learn about card games that FHN community members play and love. Find all this and more on FHNTODAY.COM PAGE BY SOPHIE CARITE FHNTODAY | 11.20.19 | FHNTODAY. COM 11
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