Color Me Rad 5K

Saturday was a long day of running....
12.27 miles at a 7:42 pace followed by:
The Color Me Rad 5K!

Getting leggy at the Color Me Rad 5k with my dearest Brittany!!

I picked up my bib on Friday afternoon and met the brains behind the Color Me Rad 5k.

Color Me Rad packet pickup

Race morning started off innocently enough:  as much white as possible and a few scattered RAD temporary tattoos.

Clean as little newborn babies

I was pretty tired after my morning run so we ran slow and easy and just enjoyed ourselves.

As we entered the first color zone, I was getting a little nervous about inhaling all the cornstarch so I used my top as a lil' filter.

Inhaling some colored cornstarch?

Once all the colored cornstarch settled to the ground, some people were rolling around in it for some extra effect.  I wasn't quite that anxious to get rad, but it was tempting!

Neon Heaven

Later in the race, we encountered a handful of other color zones, and plastered ourselves with as much paint as possible.

And I'd say we were successful!

Tappan and me, victorious at the end of the Color Me Rad 5K!

Check out Brittany's blog for more about our
Color Me Rad experience.  She's my running twin :)

While I was standing around after the race, I realized that everything looked sort of 3D shimmery and I couldn't figure out why...until I discovered that my contact lens had been dyed blue from the colored cornstarch!!!

Color Me Rad victim:  my newly blue contact lens

Check out the bright blue contact lens around
the perimeter of my dark brown iris...now THAT is rad!!

I did have to soak in my shower for at least 15 minutes until the majority of the color came off my skin, which did make me a little nervous because I had to work that night...and my clothes probably need a 2nd or 3rd run through the washing machine to get the color out...

But all in all, it was a FABULOUS race.

Very well organized and well attended-- all the Color Me Rad races have been sold out thus far.

Thanks again to the Color Me Rad and Virginia Special Olympics folks for the free bibs for my friends and me!

Have you done Color Me Rad?  Is this sort of thing appealing to you?
This was my first Color Me Rad and I loved it even more than I'd expected to.  It was fun to do a 100% relaxed race where you don't have to focus on running fast and can just run it with your buddies.