Day 259 – Color Run

Today may have been my favorite intention this year so far! I have never run a 5K and having my first one be The Color Run was probably the best way to go. I can totally see myself doing this A LOT more often.

Tammy, Katie, MacKenzie and I met up first thing this morning. We headed into downtown Providence and were pretty shocked to see just how many people turned out for what they call “The Happiest Run On Earth”. There were literally thousands of people. They released us in “waves”- we were in the third wave, so we got off nice and early.

For those of you that do not know, the Color Run is just that- a 5K run where every ½ mile or so you run through color “stations” of sorts, where people are standing on both sides of you dousing you with colored powder. There is a huge puff of the smoky powder lingering in the air so you can see clearly which color you are approaching. There were people cheering us on along the path. A lot of the roads were closed but at certain parts of the roads you could see drivers staring and smiling and enjoying the sight of us all.

I must say, running through the finish line- all of us girls holding hands with them raised high to the sky- was a moment I will never forget. The pure feeling of such accomplishment was so awesome! The end of the run was up a fairly steep hill, so the push was on but we just kept going. After passing the finish line we received our medals. We were all high-fiving and just smiling, laughing and enjoying the moment. The sight of seeing everyone covered in so many colors was such a happy sight. They had all kinds of goody giveaways and after we collected our things, we headed over to the stage.

The music was pumpin’, the crowd was jumpin’ and we made our way right up close to the front. All of us girls were singing along with the songs, screaming, jumping and dancing around. Every 20 min or so, they counted down and released tons of more color into the crowd. We all had packets of color too and threw them around as well. They tossed gifts and party goods into the crowd and even had a couple of dance offs. MacKenzie got picked to go up on stage and dance! She did SO good and we were all so happy and proud of her.

After partying it up for well over an hour (maybe close to two), we went ahead and left. Tammy took us all out to lunch afterwards which was so sweet. We all have so much fun together and I am so happy to say that when I was leaving the girls asked what we were doing next. I can’t wait to plan our next outing!! But this….this FAR surpassed any of my expectations and I will definitely be at any upcoming Color Runs and strongly encourage anyone reading this to take part as well. #lovetryingknewthings #thatswhatthisisallabout #HGAL