Color Run - Saturday 21st September - Brighton.

On Saturday I completed my FIRST 5K run which is a massive achievement for me as lets say I'm not the healthiest person. Back in July I persuaded my fiancé

 to sign up to The Color Run with me as I didn't want to train on my own. We both signed up and started training. I have to admit our training schedule wasn't perfect and we hit the gym when we had free time which wasn't as often as we both liked but we felt sort of prepared for this run when it came around to the day.

The color run is known as the happiest 5k on the planet which started in america (hence the spelling of colour) and has started to expand across the globe. The race celebrates health and happiness through colour. The race is un-timed event and every time you run a kilometre you arrive at a different colour station and are covered by friendly volunteers in different coloured powder which is made from cornstarch.  There is no age limited on participants wanting to join in on the fun.  

When you sign up for the colour run you can decide on different locations across the UK, we decided on Brighton as we thought it would be lovely to run along the pier and beach. You have to pay an entry fee of £25.00 plus £4.99 post & packaging. The entry fee includes your entry to the race, a color run t-shirt for the day, a color run sweatband, a poncho, some temporary tattoos and your race number. My color run pack was delivered two weeks prior to the race and definitely got me excited for the race! 

The race we choose was at 4pm as we knew travelling down to Brighton would take at least an hour and a half, we arrived in the morning and looked around the lanes and grabbed a bite to eat before starting to walk down to the start line. We left with plenty of time as there is entertainment in terms of stretching and dancing which got us ready to head over to the start line. We started to walk over the start line a few minutes before 4pm and got ready to start, as there are so many people taking part in the run they let you off in waves of 900 people a time, we were in the first wave. The race was a lot of fun and we loved running through the different colour zones. We managed to complete the race in just over a half a hour which wasn't too bad considering we had a breaks where we walked to help pace ourselves. Once we hit the finish line we were given packs of the colour cornstarch and told to go back over to the entertainment area where you all open your colour packs and the same time and through the colour into the air, it was really amazing to see all the different colours. 

I will definitely be doing this run again next year and will be more prepared then this year, it was such a lovely day out and I left Brighton feeling very happy and colourful! Here is the link if you want to see more, the last event is this weekend but keep an eye on the website and sign up for a color run near you!