Category: Color run

5K, bucket list, Color run, Happy

The Tulsa Color Run

Olof
I’m a bit behind with this post but someone asked in a comment on one of my post and I thought I would share.

My team I ran on!

I did it! I ran in The Color Run! I was on a team with a good friend of mine, Christina and we had fun. She also had a baby a month before I did. We both felt a bit of the mommy guilt that comes with leaving your baby with someone on a Saturday. I left my children with my husband but he had an impacted wisdom tooth that had gotten infected and he was in pain so I felt a bit like I had to hurry up and get back home.

As you can see from my after photo from the run I was the only one that didn’t have a Tutu but I had no time to make one for myself. Next time!

OK, for those of you that don’t know that Color Run is, it is a fun run 5K. At each K you get covered in a new color of powdered chalk. Their motto is that it is ”The happiest 5K on the planet”. 60% of the people that run the color run have never done a 5K before. I would have loved to say that I ran the whole thing but no. No I walked most of it. It was loads of fun though and I was in good company. Christina kept things interesting as usual. I am blessed to have such a fun friend. I have to admit I didn’t like getting the color out of my nose after though and it doesn’t taste all that great. Some of the color stations on the way were so full of the colored dust I had to hold my breath while trying to get through it.

Running a 5K is on my bucket list for 2013 and I could cross it off at this point but the Color Run was untimed and I have signed myself up for the Tulsa Run in October. I am very excited and hope that I will be able to run it all.

My face before stepping in the shower after my run. I was very proud of myself that morning. It took me a week to get all the color off of me though.

The T-shirt I got to run in is nice and soft and has been worn often since I ran this run over a month ago. It’s been a great reminder of my accomplishment too.

What are you doing to cross things off of your bucket list? Do you have a bucket list?

5K, breastfeeding, color, Color run, mother, running, Tulsa

The Color Run- Tulsa

Olof
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OMG I’ve lost my mind and I’ve signed up for my first 5k in 17 years. I have signed up for the Tulsa Color Run. A friend of mine said that she was going to do it and have a blast. Not so much run as just walk fast and have a fun time. I thought this would be the perfect way to start, hopefully, new 5K habit.

The color run is more about the fun of getting out and doing it than a hard core run but it will be a jump start in the right direction.

Of course I need new gear to start getting ready like new running pants and support bra (those breastfeeding milk jugs need to be contained and protected) but boy I’m excited. I haven’t run since before Odinn was born but now I really am excited to start. My body needs the exercise too. Since we have daylight longer during the day I have decided that I will be ready to leave the house as soon as my husband gets home and go for half an hour 3 days a week and when I can do that easy I will add a 45 min run once a week and then when that becomes easy then I will add an hour run. I know I have a ways to go here but boy will this be fun and painful. LOL

Have you done a 5K this year? It has been on my bucket list for a while now. I did a few before I was an adult but I haven’t done any since. Always thought that I had to be a runner that could run for an hour with out stop to do one. Well I haven’t been that EVER so I never went out. I’m hoping to really get into running again. I miss it. I quit while I was pregnant with my first because it hurt so much to run.  Hoping my hips will let me do this with out too much pain. My body after 3 kids in 4 and a half years is not very happy with me.