Color Run 2019

Y'all, the Color Run has finally returned, and in Provo! Closer to home! Of course we had to take part this year, it's such a fun run usually. Unfortunately for us, they started about 30 minutes late, and in the cold weather that this June has been, it was just the worst! Finally we got going and then had a mediocre walk with occasional color. It wasn't great, but hey, we made it.

Plus we got some cool cool medals after the race, and that makes us champions.

Color Run 2015

Today was the glorious Color Run, and it was as fun as always! This year, they introduced glitter/silver, and that was a lot of fun. Before, clean and fresh:

And after, not at all:

This was a fun day, and while I didn’t take as many photos as years passed, I still think I got some good ones:

It felt so good to get home and wash it all off. It took two shampooings to get the color out, and much scrubbing, but it finally came out! Happy Color Run day!

Color Run 2014

Yesterday morning, I participated in the Color Run once again! Instead of running it, we walked it this year, and I think I much prefer that. Here’s some good action pics.

I caught a bag of blue color powder straight in the face, depicted in picture #1, but still had a great time. Can’t wait for next year!

The Color Run

Today, I ran the Color Run. I had never heard of it before this year, but it’s very simple to the Hindi Festival of Colors, just done while you’re running. I lined up at the race chute at 8:00, ready to get going, then off we all went. After about a half mile, I approached what was a GIANT ball of powder. As I got closer, I saw that it was a group of volunteers, with squeeze bottles full of purple powder. After we got done with the race, I had been through the chutes for the following colors: purple, yellow, green, orange, pink, blue. The blue was the lasting color, and this is what I looked like:

Colorful, but not too bad. Then, we went to the Color Party, where basically, they played loud music, got us all pumped up, and then they had us all release packets of color they gave us, and we were drenched in color.

There was soooo much powder that it was actually really hard to breathe for a few minutes, and my body was almost in super panic mode after not being able to breathe. Finally, the air cleared, and we were dancing once again, until a few minutes later, and then we did some more color again, and then, I was needing to get out of there and into the fresh air. This is how I looked then:

We saw that they were doing another color throw, and I wanted to see what it looked like from the outside.

Finally, I had to call it a day. It started to rain, and it was hot, and I was covered in color, so I wanted to get home and shower.

It took me three washings of my hair to get the color out (and I still had some blue in it, when I was running my fingers through it later) and three loofah scrubbings to get all the blue off my body, and I actually still have some on my parts – my armpits, my ankles, and fingernails. When I took my clothes off, I had blue on every inch of my body. Toes, fingers, hands, shins, back, shoulders, everywhere, even where clothes were. But this was a great race, and I hope they do it again next year. I’d love to get everyone I know going in a large group – so prepare, friends!