My first 5K

Well technically it wasn't my first 5k, but it was the first one I've done with a group of people, and not on an elliptical.  My roommate had actually saw the flyer somewhere around school and thought that it looked fun and suggested we do it.  It was a color run, which in my opinion is a lot funner then doing a regular 5k but I also don't like running a lot, so that could be it too.
The flyer said the first 200 people to register get a free T-shirt, and who wouldn't want a free T-shirt to remember this day?  Filled out the form, and turned it in the monday before the race, and lucky enough that was enough time in advance to get a t-shirt.  Our initial thought was to be at the place exactly at 8 to make sure we got one, but when Saturday came the line was long, and all the free t-shirts (or at least those in a proper size) were gone.  Yay for early registration!!

 Here's a picture of me, my roommate Jodi, and our RA, Jen, all nice and clean before the race started.  Did I mention it was a Color Run?  Yes, its was a 5k color run edition, which is probably why it was fun.  Sorry, but no one really likes running at 9am on a Saturday unless there is some fun involved.

 The event started and finished at our school's gymnasium.  It ended up being a two lap run, since even if we ran the entire perimeter of the school it still wouldn't have been the 3.1 miles to make it a 5k, we would have had to find another .6 miles somewhere.  So instead they tracked it inside the campus, and I guess divided in half some how.
I guess that was some what the good thing, so that at each lap you got attacked with color.  I mean when the run first started they just kind of sprayed the air, so we were lightly covered in color, but it was more like a thin layer of saw dust, if you know what I mean.

 So, two laps making it 3.1 miles.  You got hit finishing the first lap, and finishing up.  They had actually put a plastic tarp type thing down so that the color wouldn't get everywhere on campus. And the area where we started was big enough that it was perfect.

 So like I said, it was 9 am on a Saturday, and I wasn't going to run the whole thing.  I wasn't even going to run 50% of it.  I ran/jogged maybe 10-20%.  I did get over lapped by maybe one or two people (as in the few people who actually ran the entire thing).  My friend Taylor was the first to finish in 18:25, he got a medal and everything.  I finished in 46:03, no medal, no congrats, just a big bunch of color everywhere, and I MEAN everywhere.

The shirt they gave us, I thought would be enough, and maybe because of the running and sweat and whatever it made it soak through, but my chest, my skin, my undershirt had color.  IT SOAKED THROUGH!!   Not what I expected to happen at all but being covered in color was part of the fun, and having to scrub all of that color off in the shower wasn't.  The only sad part is, is that I would have loved for the color to stay on the shirt, but after washing everything else I wore that day I know that isn't going to happen.  After I wash it, its just going to be a plain old boring white shirt, with a warrior head on the front and says Run4U on the back.
It was mostly a good day, besides the somewhat lack of sleep, and I would be willing to do it again, now that I know what I'm up against.