On Saturday, August 10th, we joined 10,000 other Beijingers and travelers at the Beijing Garden Expo for the first Color Run in Asia. We started out with bright white shirts, sunglasses and fun hairdos and hopped in a taxi to meet up with friends before it started. We took some "before" pictures knowing that we would soon be covered in powdered colors. When we registered in the beginning of July, we were determined to run the 5K and had been (sort of) training to be able to run it. Unfortunately, it was 95 degrees out and a pretty smoggy day so it was not a good idea to even try to run it. We made the best of it anyway. Each kilometer we went through a cloud of color - green, yellow, blue, red, and purple. Volunteers threw the powder and it was all over the ground to pick up and throw at each other. For the most part, it was fine to walk/run/dance through the powder, but a few times we got hit in the eyes or had a coughing fit while in the middle of a dance circle. We made it through all 5 colors and at the end there was a big dance party. Our group of friends decided to start a conga line and by the end of one song, we had a ton of people join in! We dance through the crowd and all agreed that it was the most exercise we got all day!
A few news sites posted about The Color Run Beijing - here are a few links! In the Huffington Post, the 8th picture down we are JUST BARELY in it - the girl's ponytail and boys arm are covering us! In the front are some of our friends!
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| At the starting line! |
At the blue station!
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| Pretty colorful! |
Before and after the race!
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