If something is advertised as the "most fun anything on Earth," I will probably try it. So it was no surprise that when I heard of The Color Run - advertised as "the most fun 5K on Earth" - I was determined to do one. Even though I had only moved up to the Bay Area weeks prior, I traveled back down to Los Angeles in early February to do the 2013 run with Barbara and Marsha.
One of the main reasons why I wanted to do the LA run was because it was held at my beloved Dodgers Stadium. The course consisted of twists and turns around the huge stadium parking lot, with four different "color stations" along the way. We would go under an arch of colored balloons (first blue, then orange, yellow and finally pink) where volunteers would then cover us from head to toe in coordinating colored powder. It was a bit unfortunate that they started with blue and orange, as those colors ended up looking brown for the majority of the race.
Marsha was smart and brought us all red hats which not only protected our hair, but helped us spot each other in the huge crowd. They said 10,000 runners registered for the morning race, not to mention 10,000 more for the afternoon shift. It was a bit crazy, but lots of people got really into it with full outfits, tutus, rainbow socks, wigs, and everything in between.
For $40, it was definitely worth the experience (and the cute free shirt), but it's probably not something I will do again. The girls and I had a blast (not to mention a little exercise!), but the process of getting clean after the fact wasn't so fun! Barb had green-tinged hands and I had blue between my toes for days!
Looks way fun. I've recently wanted to do one of these, but have always heard about the clean-up being crazy.
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