![]() I've never done anything quite like this color party, and I'm really, really happy that I did.Īndrew is caked in colored powder, and he is very happy.Īfter everything was over, it was time to clean up. We danced, jumped, screamed, fought for the freebies being thrown from the stage, and got progressively more and more caked with color. When it was fired at the audience, people went crazy. Everything about him screamed, "Korean-American," but I enjoyed it.Įvery so often, the MCs would toss packets of color powder into the crowd and do a "Color Countdown": on zero, everyone attack each other with colored powder! The end of the race definitely didn't mean the end of the messiness.Īlso, someone had managed to get ahold of a fire extinguisher and had filled it with orange powder. After that, there was a performance by a member of the K-Pop old guard known as Brian Joo. Some ladies up on stage led the crowd in awkwardly suggestive dances that they billed as "Sexy Zumba". The dance party! I had my phone in a plastic bag to protect it from the powder. What did we do for the rest of the time? Take pictures and party! Up near the starting line, they had set up a stage and were blasting dance music, so of course everyone flocked to it. Nope, the "run", stops and all, took no more than forty-five minutes. Photo courtesy Katelynīut that wasn't the end. Thanks, corporate sponsors!įulbrighters at the finish line! Note the prevalence of green. And once there, hey! Free Vitamin Water and 물티슈. All of us ended up quite green by the time we reached the finish line. You could just grab a handful of powder and smear it into somebody else's hair. And at the last station, which was green, was chaos. We rolled around on the ground to pick up more yellow. So we hung back and joined the crowds of people haphazardly flinging colored powder into everyone else's faces.īy the time we got to the yellow station, we were just looking for ways to get as messy as possible, not gonna lie. Then, we realized that our pace was actually preventing us from getting as colorful as we wanted to be! While sweating helped the color stick (as did generally being wet: I was intensely purplified when some dudes brought water guns, poured purple powder into the tanks, and went for it), running too quickly through the coloring stops did not. My friends and I were determined to get some exercise out of this and jogged almost the entire thing, stopping only for water at first. Oh, just rolling around in yellow powder, no big deal. So many people were just casually walking along the race route, only picking up their pace to a jog before they entered a "coloring" stop and pranced around while they got covered in more colored powder. Well, the hundreds of other participants - most of them Korean - didn't really feel the same way. ![]() I mean, I've never done any kind of race before this was my first 5k, so I wanted to make it count and, you know, actually run. The $35 registration fee got me a t-shirt, a pair of sunglasses (to look cool and to protect my eyes at the same time!), and a chance to have a wild, crazy time with my friends.įellow Fulbrighters and me (yellow sunglasses) before we began! Look at how clean our skin and shirts are. and Canada, arriving in Asia just this past year. The Incheon race was organized by Color Me Rad, which has taken the event all around the U.S. ![]() During the race, participants are covered with colored powder - literally as they are running - various times, until they finish the race with their clothes, limbs, and faces tinted green, blue, pink, purple, and yellow! You start off with a clean white tee and finish looking like, well, like I do in these photos. So, what made it special?Īnswer: the "color" part*. When I told my Korean friends I was doing a 달리기, they invariably replied, "Oh, a 마라톤/marathon?" Well, no, not quite that much. ![]() Last weekend, I went to Incheon, a city way up north, next to Seoul, for an event known as a "color run". You might be wondering about the photo above - what happened? Did my friends and I fall into a garbage truck? Have we been painting murals? Did we somehow grow mold on our t-shirts while out for a run? Nah, none of those are nearly exciting enough. Left to right: Kaley, Tracey, Katelyn, Connor, Rachel, (another) Andrew, and me.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |