Color Me Rad

My Family and I went to Color Me Rad 2015 last weekend. IT was so fun. the run was not bad at all. The only bad thing about all this is that my wife has just dyed her hair super blonde and with all the color powder her hair turned BLUE!!! she almost had a heart attack. other than that great event. Blondes out there make sure you don’t dye you hair the day before other wise you will have rainbow hair … lol

Wow, what a fun event held at MCAS Miramar. I’ve found that most 5k events are only done to get in some basic walking exercise, perhaps for a noteworthy cause. Sometimes 5Ks are downright boring. Color Me Rad event is definitely not boring.
I really didn’t want to come here, but family and friends bought tickets so I was kinda lassoed into going against my will. Packet Pickup was at the Sports Authority and was seamless. The Next day, we actually arrived at MCAS Miramar before the one hour suggested arrival time and there was a 10 minute line for car inspections. Before the race began there was a stage with contests and bumping electronica music.
The race started with a thorough pelting of color bombs and away we go.
There were 8 various stations along the oval airport course. Some color bombing stations, some fluid squirting stations.
Closer to the end of the race there were some planes parked close to the path (Osprey in particular). Those made for some good photo opportunities.
At the finish line people started to gather around the stage for the grand. Music was loud, but the ending was pretty fun with all the colors fights. Nobody goes away unscathed.
— Thank god we missed the memo that most people should wear a tutu.
— Not a professional run /​walk /​jog. One female Unilocal reviewer thought she’d be being going up against world class Kenyans, not tutu wearing mommas.
— The only place where a guy could get away wearing the Unilocal Elite sunglasses.
— Recommended.

$ 29.00 registration fee, well worth! My family and I enjoyed the event. By the way the event was not a full 5K and in fact 2.8 miles. Parking was a mess come early.

This 5k was so much fun! Early registration was $ 25, and with that you get a really soft, comfy CMR tee, a totally rad pair of neon sunglasses, and a RAD tattoo & sticker. Plus, there is lots of swag you can grab if you get there early. There were 4 – 5 color stations where you got plenty of color, and in addition to the water station at the half-​way point, there was a spray station to cool you down. The race provided one blaster of each color at the end (which amounted to 6 – 7 FREE blasters), and on a countdown, everyone threw their colors in the air! Everything seemed well organized, and everyone working the event was super friendly. Parking was FREE, and a portion of the proceeds go to benefit the Special Olympics. Plus, it’s a great way to get out of the gym and have some fun with your friends and family. It’s definitely something I will do again next year :)

WTH?!
Thank god this 5k was FREE as my friend won free entries. If you’re a serious runner, this isn’t a run for you. This is more of a «fun» run. There are no timers and there are a lot of walkers.
I did enjoy running the streets of downtown San Diego, then you get to the parking lot with all the switchbacks. I HATE switchbacks! It felt like you were running in circles. Then you get all the crap thrown on you and you can’t see around you, so a lot of people were just running into each other which I totally thought was dangerous given that there were a lot of little kids running this.
At the end you were given color to throw up in the air at the same time, and that was a bust. People were just doing it when they got it.
We took cool pics, but walking around downtown post-​run was pretty comical. The color stains, so buy clothes that you can throw away or don’t care for. My shoes are still stained after putting them through the wash. Also, put a towel in your car so that your interior doesn’t stain. Had I not had a towel, totally would have messed up my interior. My towel had so much color on it!

If you enjoy having colorful corn starch in damn near every crevice of your bodily existence then my recommendation is running the Color Me Rad 5k :)
For $ 40, I not only got to run a nifty 3 miles, but got a Color Me Rad t-​shirt, sunglasses, temporary «RAD» tattoo and a hot shower at home that looked like the death of a unicorn! Lots and lots of awesome run swag to buy at the event, I grabbed myself a pair of shorts that read «RAD» on the booty-​side for $ 10.
On finishing, runners are given «color bombs» (bags full of the same powdery goodness that was thrown on us during the homestretch of the run) for the purpose of breaking open and throwing at one another (safe to say, you might want to run this one with a buddy otherwise, well, I suppose throwing corn starch at strangers could be fun…)
I would certainly award this run 5 stars had my running colleagues and I felt as though our running route was a bit disorganized. The run itself sent us out into the streets surrounding PETCO park, but abruptly has us return to the parking lot adjacent to the one where we started; there we would have to ZIG and ZAG through a cone designated course that would get cramped with people walking and those of us there to RUN. This actually forced runners to walk in a few spots. Boo. On the note of walkers (the walking dead?), those who weren’t running the 5k were asked to remain to the left of the path whereby runners would stick to the right: this was never really upheld and runners then had to maneuver through the clusters of walking-​folk. In addition, the prospect of starting «waves» wasn’t enforced, in fact, I had signed my team up for the 7:15 wave and we somehow corralled ourselves into the 7:05 wave –that being said, if the run commenced at 7:00am, is it not usually the faster people who comprise the starting waves? Probably should make sure those intent on walking take up the rear/​last waves next go-​around.
Good run for kiddos, lots of them were there and adorable as ever with their short little legs trying to keep up to pace with the adults! Oh and GUMBY, he runs the 5k too!
Be advised: Don’t expect every mile of the run to be a colorful wonderland, the color stations (from a far they appeared to be giant dust clouds of a given color) don’t occur until you’re nearly at the end of the run and are each situated with some distance between them (so it’s like: go through the orange station, get large amounts of orange powder thrown at you, exit orange station, run along the course for X amount of yards, then enter the green station. Repeat for pink, purple, yellow, ect.)
Nevertheless, fun was definitely had! I ran the 5k with my 2 best friends and we finished in 26 minutes and got coated head to toe in every color of the rainbow!
I would do it again!