the color run

 The Color Run was on Saturday

it was so so cold

and it didn't help that I was sick with a cold too.

It was an early morning leaving the house at 7:00 am.

Amanda and I met up with some of her friends 

and we headed to downtown Boise.

It was a fun group of girls.

Here we are before in our white clothes and our super cool headbands 

which made great ear warmers too.

We didn't quite go for the fashion look we were just trying to stay warm

but lots of people were decked out in tutu's, wigs,

spandex, leotards, and some even wearing their underwear on the outside 

of their clothes.

So even though it's called the color run don't let that mislead you,

it's not much of a run.  The funny thing is for the last two months I ran 3 miles three times a week

to get ready for this but it turns out there is nothing to get ready for.

There are so many people everywhere that you can hardly run unless you

want to constantly weave in and out of people and dodge strollers and wheel chairs, 

so we mostly walked and did a little jogging

which made it more fun to visit and talk and watch the crazy people that were out there.

As you run you go through four different color zones where colors get

thrown on you to slowly turn your whites into something more colorful.

They suggest for you to wear glasses to protect your eyes

and breathing in and tasting the stuff isn't that great either but

the atmosphere is so much fun

you can't help but smile, laugh and have a great time

even if you are sick.

At the end of the race they have a color party

where every ten minutes or so everyone throws their

color packs in the air and you dance around in the falling colors

until it turns into a thick smog and you can no longer breathe

and you have to lick your teeth clean because the powder

covers everything.

It was a fun and they are right

it really is the happiest 5K on the planet

 now I just need to run a real 5K.

thanks for the fun Amanda and girls.