Do you want to make lots of money? Well, the solution would seem to stage a Lakefront 5k and give the participants bags of colored powder to pour on top of themselves! There was just that kind of a run held yesterday, called the
Color In Motion 5k. Apparently, there was such high demand for the race that they had to move it from Saturday so the city could accommodate more runners on Sunday. There is also another
similar 5k later this month which is already sold out!
Anyway, the weather was perfect yesterday for a long run, so instead of resting on the day after
my 10k, I went for a Lakefront run. That's when I stumbled upon this 5k.
I think the average age of participants was about 16, so it is kind of a colorful mini-Lollapalooza-5k for the high-school set. Here are some pics:
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| Some race volunteers, yes, the road is pink from the bags of color! |
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| Girl racing while talking on cell phone |
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| Nice color combo! |
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| A bag of color dye. 100g! |
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| Walkers |
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| More walkers and another cell phone (kids these days!) |
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| All blue. A Smurf look, perhaps? |
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| The dance stage post-race with pounding, pounding techno music |
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| Craziness |
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| More craziness |
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| A puff of blue powder |
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| Friend coloring a friend |
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| More blue clouds of color |
After watching the colorful spectacle, and trying to avoid getting any color on my shirt/hair/face, I headed out to the Lakefront Trail for a long run in the pristine weather. It was 50 degrees and drizzling, amazing for early June! The weather reminded me of almost exactly how it was for the
L.A. Marathon was in 2011, when it rained almost the entire marathon. I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt as I was on that day, so I could not take any walk breaks or risk hypothermia setting in. On the upside, it was one of those days when you could just run and run and not worry about breaking a sweat/over-heating!
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| Boston Marathon biker |
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| Rain on my shades! |
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| Nobody on the beach, no life guard either! |
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| An almost empty trail. Yay! |
Finally, I ran to my 'hood and passed our local German Mayfest beer tent (before it opened)!
It was a great day for an unplanned long run!
Total: 15 miles @ 8:01/mile.
Around oak street beach, I thought I saw you with the all white, but I don't think I remember seeing the stripes on your shirt. I saw end of that color run as well! Glad they kept the powder off the pain trail! I was like you, shorts, tshirt, hoping it would warm up. Hands were near numb after a long run!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the photos!
Maybe it was me, as there weren't that many people out there. Yes, my hands and arms were numbing out near the end. No problem! :-)
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DeleteVery cool pictures. I have heard SO MUCH about these color runs but they sound way too gimmicky for me. I don't know many serious runners that would do color runs more than once or twice. Plus, that dye looks kind of scary. It can't be good to be inhaling all of that while running!
ReplyDeleteThanks. Yes, it was a lot gimmicky. I probably would have had fun there if I was 30 years younger or had had a few beers beforehand! :-) Yes, I hope that dye/color is safe for the runners to inhale! :)
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