As the name suggests The Color Run features colour - and lots of it.
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| A colourful bunch at the end of the run |
The run is five kilometres long with colour stations sets up at each kilometre mark. Each station features a different colour and is manned by volunteers toting squeezy bottles of fine coloured powder. The volunteers squirt or throw the powder on the runners as they go past. In our case, as with most other people, we took the opportunity to stop a while at each station to get a little extra colour. Ava made colour angels on the ground (think snow angels in the coloured powder), we threw colour at each other, we jumped up and down to make colour clouds and positioned ourselves in front of the volunteers' colour bottles as much as possible!
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| Ava gets blue'd |
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| Action shot! |
We had such a great time doing the Color Run that it well and truly made up for the ridiculously early time our alarm went off! We were up and out of the house around 6am to make it to Candle Stick Park south of the city in time for the 7:30am line up.
The early morning was totally worth it though as the run was so much fun for the whole family. The girls keep talking about it and are keen to go again so we'll definitely be signing up for next year's run. If the Color Run is coming to a city near you I highly recommend you get out there and take part. You'll have a blast. I promise.
Here are a *few* photos showing what a great time we had.
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| Ready to run on this grey San Francisco Summer morning |
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| Two little girls ready for the run in their nice white t-shirts |
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| Warming up by jogging on the spot |
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| Cheeky |
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| Waiting to start |
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| And we're off! |
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| Entering the first colour station |
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| Ava looking pretty chuffed about her first brush with colour |
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| Tutus seem to be pretty popular fun run attire |
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| Entering the second colour station |
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| Oops... colour in the eye |
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| Take that! |
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| Making colour angels |
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| Colour jump |
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| Time for some blue |
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| Ava goes to battle with a character from Avatar! |
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| Der blaue Engel |
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| Blue girl |
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| Lola, Ava and I with a little more colour |
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| A little more colour from the first station as we run back past it |
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| Setting a good example by throwing colour at my children! |
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| Ava walked the full 5kms. Lola walked on and off for the last km or so. |
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| Desperate to walk as far as possible! I think ended up being last across the finish line due to these cute little legs :) |
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| Time for more colour |
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| Lola loved playing in the colour but wasn't too keen on having it squirted on her! |
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| Playing in the colour |
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| Making colour dust clouds |
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| My colourful feet - and Barbie coloured skin! |
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| Lola's feet |
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| Lola and Ava at the finish |
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| Ava's feet |
In our runner packs we were provided with a pack of colour powder each. At the end of the run we threw these packs of colour all over each other. Like we needed more colour!
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| Ava throws green my way. So glad I was using my old camera and not my good one! |
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| The girls get showered in pink. They were pretty happy about this! |
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| Pink leg, green leg |
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| Looks like Kim just got hit in the face with some pink |
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| You've been greened |
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| Lola and I after the run |
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| Throwing more colour |
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| Ava tried to scoop up as much pink as possible |
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| Kim's colour explosion |
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| Little poser |
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| Empty colour packs |
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| The girls chat about colour |
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| Colourful ground |
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| Colourful ground |
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| Colourful ground |
You may have noticed that I've used both spellings of the word colour/color. I can't bring myself to drop the "u" and use the American spelling. However, seeing as the event is officially called The Color Run - with no "u" - I'm happy to use the American spelling in the title ;) I'm going to have to get my head around all of these American spellings once Ava starts school in the Fall! Just started then by calling Autumn Fall ;)
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