The Color Run

Last January while browsing on Pinterest I discovered The Color Run. It looked amazing!!!! I told my husband that I wanted to run it. Last January I couldn't even run 5 minutes so I looked up a good Couch-to-5k program. I started the beginning of February. The Color Run got rescheduled three times and I was worried it wasn't going to actually come. Finally the big day was here!! I trained for many months and was dressed in white and ready to get colorful! I ran with a member of my new running group and I knew my husband, kids and Mother-in-law would be waiting at the finish line for me. This wasn't my first 5k but it was the reason I started running so I feel like it was a very important race. They have a different color every kilometer or so. The first one we reached was pink. my running buddy and myself didn't get very colorful :( so we made a goal of getting more saturated at the rest of the color stations. The next station was yellow, we all looked like bananas! It was awesome. Then came orange! I must have paid extra attention to orange considering my hands were stained orange. The last color station was blue! For some reason most of the runners thought that the race was over way before you actually reached the finish line. I had to dodge people standing around taking photos. We made it to the end and I was all smiles! I did it!! I ran the Color Run without stopping. I poured blue powder (each racer was given a packet of color) on my kids after the race. We still have blue in our hair after a few washes. It was the happiest 5k I have ever done and so excited that I was able to be apart of it. I felt so good after the race was over that I decided that I have to run a 10k soon. I need to get back to my training and continue improving!  A year ago I couldn't run, now I am running a 5k with my running group! Life is pretty awesome!