Colorful Wet Fun

 This last weekend, Matt and I did a Color Run with a group of friends. The Color run is an untimed, non-competitive run that is all about having fun and getting colored. At 4 different stations, volunteers throw colored corn starch on the runners/walkers. Usually, you can see the color stations from a distance because the corn starch makes a huge colorful cloud....

 However, this weekend, it rained. Yes, even Phoenix Arizona gets rain sometimes. Its never convenient when it happens, and this day was no exception. First of all, the race requires everyone wear a white shirt to the start line. So the race quickly turned into a wet tee shirt contest.......luckily I wore an undershirt just in case it was going to rain. There was only a 50% chance of rain, but of course it rained all night, and ALL DAY on race day. Luckily I was prepared. 

 We had organized a team of 8 and all the girls had tutus that we had made. By the time we even got to the check in point, one of our members could not handle it anymore. The water weighed it down and made it keep falling off. Mine on the other, just kept sticking to my legs which was super annoying...but at least my bottom was dry! This is a picture of 4 of the girls before the race. We never found 2 of our team members before the race...

 And this is us girls after the race! 

  For the race, we ended up splitting our group of 6 into three groups of two. The men ran the race together, the girls on the outside of the picture did a walk/run maneuver through the course, and the two dirtiest women in that picture walked the race. It was a lot of fun to walk the race and have a lot of girl chat. And of course, by going slow through the color stations, we got absolutely covered!

Matthew got pretty colorful throughout the run, but I think I got it worse. After crossing the finish line, we all got super colorful. When you check in to the race, they give you a packet of colored corn starch to throw on people at the end (or anytime really). Once everyone crossed the line, we let loose with the color. We all went from a nice multicolored person to a super dirty super blue pack of people. The rain didnt help because it made all the colors run together. By the time we walked the mile back to the car, we were soaked to the bone, blue to the bone, but all smiling.

It took a 30 minute shower and a full bar of soap to get the worst of it off...but 3 showers later I was still washing blue dye out of my hair. I think I found all the spots of skin that were colored, but just today someone at work found what looked like a bruise on the back of my next and asked if I needed to talk to the counselor about domestic issues. *sigh*. Once I explained the situation (and showed the pictures) everyone believed me. Note to self: scrub harder!

Next race: Half Marathon in Phoenix!