Fitness, Family and Fun: Color Vibe 5 Km

Color Vibe 5KM - 2015

Wow what a HOT HOT weekend!

But a great one!

Sunday morning we participated in the Color Vibe 5km run.

This run was purely for entertainment purposes.

It was great to catch up with old and new friends this weekend as we had organized a small team to go all together to this event.

There were many families that had participated in this with their children. It was fun to see all the kids playing with the powdered colour and having the time of their life getting all crazy and messy! I'm thinking next year we need to get our kids into this I think they would love it! Especially with our 6 year old! Kids were FREE to participate!

It was nice to have just a casual run alongside friends, kids and families. It was not a hard course, not many hills at all but you're going to want to make sure that your kids can go that distance or bring a stroller or wagon, there were lots of them there.

So are you curious as to what is the colour made out of???
All it is corn starch and dye. It is non-toxic and 100% safe and biodegradable. It is recommended that you wear sunglasses to keep the powder out of your eyes, and lucky enough they give them to you.

The colour WILL completely come off of your skin and shoes and clothes when washing. Don't worry you won't be dyed like a rainbow all week at work.

Thank you girls for a FUN time!!

This is the third year my husband and I have done this run. I like participating in it each year because it's sort of the beginnings of my journey.

Three years ago, after our last child was born, I found my passion for running.

I think running was a way for me to cope with the demands of a new baby, relieve some stress, and to have a little quiet, zone out mommy time for myself.
I found a couch to 5KM app on my iphone and focused on working through it.  I admired people that could just go out and go for a run.  Don't they look so graceful and happy and peaceful?  But here I was huffing and puffing away and couldn't even make it through 30 seconds of straight running without getting a tomato face and jello legs.

But I just followed that couch to 5 km running program.

I started right from the very beginning of just walking 2 minutes and running 30 seconds, etc. And like I said, 30 seconds was HARD!! It was all I could do. I wondered HOW do people run for 30-60 minutes straight? Running those 30 seconds and getting through just the first day felt like a huge accomplishment. So next was a rest day, and the day after that I tried it again. The next day was run 60 seconds, walk for a minute and a half. I pushed myself through that. Had a rest day. I just worked at it week by week, following that program and slowly built up my running time.

After the summer of plugging away with this running program, I signed up my husband and I for the 5km Color Me RAD. After working hard all summer, I wanted to finish it off with a fun run. I remember being so nervous.
They were going to throw WHAT at us ????
We're going to get MESSY???
But we had a BLAST!!!

I remember at the time, coming up on the 4 km mark, 1 km to go and my husband was getting tired. I was so full of adrenaline that I could keep going to the finish. He told me to go ahead so I could finish the whole run without stopping.
It felt amazing to accomplish something out of my element (crazy fun colour everywhere) and finish my first ever 5km.

So what did we do?? We signed up again the following year and did that together again.

aaaaaaaaand then again this year.

It's been nice to reflect and to remember how far we've both come along and that we did this together. I'm so grateful for a husband that has supported me with this.

Color Runs
Top Left - Our very 1st Color Me RAD 2013
Bottom Left - 2nd Colour Me RAD 2014
Right - Color Vibe 2015

If you have ever been curious about running I really encourage you to try a couch to 5km program.
Yes you'll feel like you're dying that first week. But just like with anything, the more you do it, the better you get. Week by week it's amazing how you get better, there is noticeable difference in the way you feel week to week.