Color Run

So a couple weeks ago(2/9/13) my best friend Misti and another friend of mine Melissa participated in the Color Run New Orleans . We bought our tickets in November in order to have quite some time to train for this AMAZING 5k!  I cant tell you that we actually worked hard to get fit and blow all these people out the water with our new bods. So that last sentence was def far from what actually happened. I maybe worked out 10 times from the end of November – Feb. Melissa took it most seriously by buying an elliptical  And Misti actually used her gym at her apartment  the week of the race . But I’m not going to tell you the last time she saw the inside of that facility.
Friday Melissa and I made our way to Baton Rouge to Misti’s Apt. After torturing Melissa with everything from Omarion – Taylor Swift on my iPhone playlist Melissa and I were ready to hit the couch hard. Especially since all of us needed to wake up at 4 AM to be ready and heading out the door by 5 am and getting to New Orleans.  Of course we didn’t get out the house in the time that I really wanted but we made it to City Park. We had no idea where we needed to meet and get the packets for the race ( included face sticker t shirts color and bib) . There was about 15 people that where mainly volunteers who were standing outside a building so we decided to stand also. Eventually we realized we were in the wrong spot. The “Color Run Team” had not left any information to contact anyone if we were lost. (STUPID) So after going to Metairie and back and driving around City Park, following strangers cars we finally found The Happiest 5k on Earth registration pavilion. Luckily there wasn’t many people there at 7 am so we illegally parked and got our crap.
Then the hunt really began to look for free and non dangerous parking. It took some time to maneuver around all the random people running out in front of your car and learning that some places were not real parking spots. After some stalking we found the holly land of parking. 20 mins later we were walking back to the packet pick up pavilion because of course I didn’t get pins for my bib. This time there were several HUGE lines of people. ( damn New Orleans people are always late) After playing on the jungle gym and realizing that I am no longer 10 and can not hang up side down we walked to the start line. There were all type of people there. Men, Women, kids,  young ,old, annoying s people dressed in tutus , underwear, fancy running clothes ( dummies) .
There was probably 10000 people there. there was color stations at every half mile. Runners and walkers trampled the streets of New Orleans . It was GREAT!!!
AMN