Last weekend we had the fun experience of running The Color Run! Ok, so I sat out, along with Christy, Adrian's mom as well as Hailey, Colin and Leah. Still, we were there for moral support and it was fun!
The whole gist of this particular 5K is that 4 times throughout the race you go through color checkpoints where you're doused with powdered color. It's just dyed cornstarch, but glancing at the pics, you get the idea. You start the race with a while shirt and clean hair and you end the race looking like a Smurf. Or something along those lines. I got the tickets for free from blogging about the race, but it was so much fun I think we're hoping it becomes a yearly tradition!
Thomas and Adrian ran, along with Tiffany, Adrian's sister, her son Matthew and a few of their friends.
Thomas has gotten to be quite the runner! He and Adrian trained for the race by running on weekends. He's to the point where running 3 miles isn't such a big deal anymore. Here they are stretching and getting ready to run!
Thomas and Matt, before the race.
We positioned ourselves outside the starting line. They did several heats of runners, so we were constantly scanning the crowd as they ran by, trying to see Adrian and Thomas. Luckily Adrian decided to look at his phone and reply to my text, so eventually we had a decent idea as to when they'd run by.
See Adrian? He's towards the right raising his hands in the air. I literally just had to raise my phone above my head and click, crossing my fingers someone we knew was in the frame, lol!
See Thomas there in the middle. It's his back. He was running too fast!
We then went over to the finish line to wait and catch them as they came in. We had snacks and watched all the runners go by. Then Hailey and Colin saw piles of color powder on the ground and decided to join in on the fun. By the way, I'm writing this a week later and Hailey STILL has a hot pink scalp, despite the 3 showers she's since taken!
Thomas towards the right, coming into the finish line.
It wasn't really a timed race or anything, so they stopped and posed for a picture for me.
Here are Hailey and Colin towards the end. They got worse though. Much worse. Funny though, the race coordinators had these guys positioned with big leaf blowers after the race was over. You stand in front of them and they attempt to blow as much color off you as possible, so that you can drive home without dumping color all over the car. It kind of worked. Still fun though!
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