Color Run Day!!!!

Here is our before pic. Last night I was so nervous. I kept telling my husband that I was afraid for today. So here is what I would say about the Color Run. It is fun but not what I expected. All the pictures show color powder going everywhere & people covered in color. So I expected at each color station it would be raining that color powder. Well there were people at each station squirting you w/ color liquid. We didn't get much color until the finish line. At the finish line is where the color powered is squirted about and you get a color packet to go to a general place and throw them at people. Now that aside I have to say I am SHOCKED at how fast we did it.  I jogged and walked the whole thing.  We did two 12 minute miles! WHAT!?!?!? I told my BFF that her watch must be wrong cause that is not possible. she said even when I was walking I was really walking fast and that I did it much faster than she expected. I told her me too. We did the whole thing in 40-45 mins. Last week she did hers in an average of 9 min miles.  I thought for sure this would take me the whole hour because at home on my flat treadmill I am at 20 min miles while walking & jogging in my C25K program. My heart rate was way higher and I think maybe to high but what do I really know about how high is to high for my heart. it was in the 160-170's and the machine at the gyms always yells at me at around 160.  So I always try to stay in the 150's.  Now I wasn't feeling like OMGosh my heart is going to explode or even that it was beating out of my chest. But the point being I didn't die and I did it faster than I expected. Here are some more pics from our day.

This was a little over 1/2 way through. 

Only about 50 feet from the finish line.
See how we don't have that much color

Even after going thru the powder my tongue
was blue.

This is where you really get covered w/ color

After!!!

So it was a great morning & Mother's Day. Dinner was very tasty & I did splurge and eat more because I did the 3.2 miles but I am still tracking every bite and I officially ate all extra activity points I've had for this week. So I am a little worried about the weigh in so we will see.