Destination: Color Me Rad 5K in Pittsburgh

My sister and I made a lightning run to Pittsburgh to participate in the "Color Me Rad 5K" over the weekend.  We left at about 2 p.m. on Friday and drove to the Country Inns and Suites in Washington, PA. The run was originally scheduled for the North Side of Pittsburgh, but so many people signed up to do it that they had to change it to the Washington Fairgrounds.

Nancy ready to head to "Color Me Rad".

The folks at Country Inns and Suites were very friendly and the room was nice. When we asked for directions to "packet pick-up", we found out the spot was in downtown Pittsburgh, about 50 minutes away (Oiy!) We headed out, but called the organizers on our way.  When we explained our situation they said, "Don't run the whole way up here! Just pick up the packets tomorrow." Awesome.

We were famished so we headed for dinner at the Cracker Barrel. Then it was time to relax in our comfy room and have some girl time before lights out and 6:30 wake-up for the Saturday race.

It was only a seven minute drive from our hotel to the fairgournds. After we parked we got our packets and looked around.  We saw the "Color Bomb Squad" volunteers getting their directions on how to bomb us with brightly colored cornstarch powder. CMR DJ's were already getting the crowd pumped up with music. At the starting line CMR workers were shooting colored powder and free t-shirts from a gun into the crowd. We were in the 5th starting wave.  There looked to be about 100 people or more in each wave.

Starting the waves of participants...all day long!

This was a "fun race".  There were no clocks timing anyone and most people didn't run the entire time. Nancy and I walked. I'm glad because running would have made it end too soon.   The Color Bomb Squad did their job well and painted our white t-shirts, shorts, hats and socks with a rainbow of color. A few of the colors were mixed with water to give us some cool down stations on a hot day. "Flo-photo" photographers were stationed throughout the course to get pictures of the fun. When we finished, we received our own packets of color to bomb people finishing after us.

Sensational Sisters

It was a fun way to end our summer and now we have the souvenirs of tie dyed shirts, shorts, hats and socks to remember our big, colorful, outdoor party in Pittsburgh!