For MONTHS, the interwebs have been abuzz with fanfare for The Color Run.
Races were selling out like crazy – I think Seattle was closed within 3 hours.
I caught a whiff of the excitement and spread it around. A group of my coworkers and I had alarms set for the day and time that registration opened, and we signed up real good.
Blah blah. Time passes. Things that are not The Color Run occurred.
And then. It happened!
You know that kid? The one on a bike in The Incredibles who is all agog and then says “That was totally wicked!”
Color Run was like that.
If you’re signed up for one in your town, here’s some stuff you might want to know:
There were about a million more people than I expected. Mostly teen and twenty something girls. Or I don’t know. I can’t tell the difference between a teen and a twenty something any more.
It was not a run. We did our best jogging effort, but most people were walking and it was hard to get through them. If you’re worried about the running aspect, DON’T BE!
The color is dyed corn starch. It does get cloudy and in your nose and mouth, but it’s not too unpleasant. The powder will mix with sweat and form crusty chunks. It doesn’t hurt when it gets in your eyes.
You can open the packet of color you get with registration at any time. You don’t have to wait until the end.
The volunteers won’t douse you in color at a station unless you go up to them and present yourself for dousing. You definitely can’t run through the stations and still get good and colored on.
Definitely a fun event for kids. There were even people with babies/toddlers in strollers.
I had my iPhone in a ziploc, but ended up taking it out quite a bit to take pictures. It got pretty covered in the colored dust, but that all wiped off and it seems fine. Was also wearing my Garmin, which I wiped off and also was fine.
People are throwing color every which way at the end. So if you made it through the race course unscathed, you can still get plenty of decoration just puttering around in the crowd afterwards.
I washed all of our clothes in a separate load. The Color Run t-shirts seem to be ever so slightly stained still and everything else came out clean. I haven’t washed our sneakers, so they are still grody, but wearable.
The pink color does not come off your skin right away.
before
after
margaret edith 