20 August 2012

The Happiest 5k!


I hope you all are ready to look at A LOT of photos.
This was one of the best days of my life, hands down, and I want to share it with all of you.
This weekend, Adam, his sister, the babies, and I all did The Color Run.
When they say it's the happiest 5k on the planet, they aren't kidding.
This is the first time I have ever done anything like this and I will admit I was a bit nervous while we were driving there.
I am, in no way shape or form, a runner but when I saw that this run was coming to St. Louis, I knew I had to do it.
Having my friends and family be so supportive and pumped about the race definitely helped.
Adam and I did a pretty good job "training" for the 5k and it totally paid off.
I will let the photos do the rest of the talking for a bit...


The race took place in our beautiful downtown area. Here are our before shots!


Jamie met up with us when we got there and we were sooooo blessed that she decided to do the race with us!!! Yay!!!


Faith and Ali came all the way from Massachusetts to do the 5k with us!!




At every kilometer, you run through a "Color Zone" where you get covered in a different color.  Here we are getting close to the Pink Zone!!


and the blue zone...




And the finish line, with the beautiful Arch behind it!!



This is my "I finished my first 5k!!!" look :)



 After everyone finishes the race, there is a Color Festival at the finish line!!
It was AMAZING!!!!


























Besides this being such a FUN day, it was also really empowering.  I never, in a million years, thought I would be so excited about 5k or prepared for a 5k.
I totally rocked this race and had a blast doing it.
I can NOT wait for the next one!!!
I am now on the look out for more FUN runs.  I don't know if I would have liked the idea of a 5k (at all) if it didn't have this fun and colorful aspect to it.
I finished a 5k.
It was amazing.
If The Color Run is coming to your city, I encourage you to sign up!!! 
If I can do it, you can do it.

xo
janel

P.S.  Here is a little video to get you even more pumped about The Color Run


11 comments:

  1. Ooooh! This just made me so excited for TCR I'm doing in November!! Thanks for sharing your fabulous memories and awesome pictures with us! xxo

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  2. Oh man. That looks like a blast!

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  3. I am doing this in my town in mid-November! It is so great to see real pictures of what it was like instead of just the advertisements. I am even more excited now! Congrats on running your first 5K...the feeling of awesomness never gets old!
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  4. wow!!! that looks like soooooooooooo much fun!!!!!!!

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  5. I just read about this (in the Southwest in flight magazine. Ha!), and it looked like a lot of fun. Your pictures turned out great, and it looks like you all had a great time. Good job!

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  6. I just read about this (in the Southwest in flight magazine. Ha!), and it looked like a lot of fun. Your pictures turned out great, and it looks like you all had a great time. Good job!

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  7. I just read about this (in the Southwest in flight magazine. Ha!), and it looked like a lot of fun. Your pictures turned out great, and it looks like you all had a great time. Good job!

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  8. I just read about this (in the Southwest in flight magazine. Ha!), and it looked like a lot of fun. Your pictures turned out great, and it looks like you all had a great time. Good job!

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  9. I just read about this (in the Southwest in flight magazine. Ha!), and it looked like a lot of fun. Your pictures turned out great, and it looks like you all had a great time. Good job!

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  10. I just read about this (in the Southwest in flight magazine. Ha!), and it looked like a lot of fun. Your pictures turned out great, and it looks like you all had a great time. Good job!

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  11. I love your pictures soooo much!!!! It was definitely one of the happiest days!!! I'm so glad we got to do it together!!!! xoxo

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