Clean Lakes Alliance is set to conduct an ice drill on Lake Mendota on Monday to assess ice thickness for the upcoming Frozen Assets 5K Run/Walk.

Clean Lakes Alliance crews drilled through Lake Mendota ice Monday to measure conditions ahead of the world's only run-walk event held entirely on a frozen lake surface.

We’ll it is official-- the ice on Lake Mendota is ready for this year’s frozen assets 5K run walk.

Lake Mendota typically freezes over a week after Lake Monona, which covers a third less surface area. But Monona was ...