Fitness Swellness: The Color Run

August 20, 2013

Newbies and seasoned runners alike are sure to have a blast participating in the Color Run, which has launched this summer in Canada!

The 5k race’s focus is most definitely on fun and happiness (it’s not a race where participants will be aiming for personal best times): as the runners make their way through the course, a coloured powder is sprayed into the air at each kilometre, landing on the all-white clothing of the runners. Hello, rainbow-bright fun!

Each event benefits two local charities, and this year an estimated 100 Color Runs will be held with about one million participants. Two have already taken place (in Windsor and London), but if you’re in Ottawa or Vancouver? You’re in luck as each city has an upcoming Color Run (August 25 and September 14 respectively).

I’ve never run it, but it sure looks way more fun than the marathons I’ve got planned for fall. Toronto, you’ll have to wait til 2014 to run it, though–that’s when the first one is slated for the T-Dot.

Have you run The Color Run? Share your colourful race report!

Want to register for a race? Check out The Color Run for more details.

(Photos courtesy of rockitpromo)

Filed under: Fitness Swellness

Tags: 5k, Color Run, race, run, running