Color Run

My three girls, Madeline, Grace and Frances, participated in the Color Run in Philadelphia in early July. The Color Run is a 3.1 mile (5K) in which at various points in the race the runners are painted with powdered color. 


Clean and white

Participants are required to wear white. So the girls wore matching outfits.

 

First color pink



Post pink

It was a beautiful day in Philadelphia. The event began and ended in front of the Art Museum. A heat wave was upon us, so the organizers decided to start the race at 7 AM instead of 8:30AM.  Since the train from our area doesn't run that early on a Sunday we had John and Henry drop us off near the start . 
 


Last color yellow

Eakins Oval was jammed with runners - over 24,000! Each group of 500 was sent off in waves about 3 minutes apart.

Almost finished

When the girls finally took off I ended up running alongside for the first mile to take photos. Then I doubled back and ran from the finish to mile 2 for more photos. It was a kaleidoscope of color!

Into the crowd of color after the race

At the finish each runner had a packet of color that they threw into the crowd. The girls were covered in color by the end.   

Philadelphia Museum of Art



Multi-colored hair



Frances sweating color



Grace in living color



Madeline's super white teeth

Our plan was to take the train home.  Thankfully the girls weren't the only Color-Runners on the train.  We received lots of starnge looks.  Upon exiting our seats, I noticed a heavy dusting of color was left behind!



Ben Franklin Parkway and City Hall