color me disappointed

Yesterday was the Color Run in Allentown. I signed up again because we had so much fun doing it in Philly. Color me disappointed.  I came home fairly clean.

The race took place in and around Cedar Creek Parkway and Muhlenberg College.  We all met at Betsy's and Ranger Bob drove us to the start and picked us up. We arrived about 8:30 and the line to start was huge. It took maybe a half hour for the 13th wave, that was ours, to go thru.

First stop, Ott Street and blue. The lack of volunteers was immediately apparent. They had maybe four people throwing color.  It didn't get much better. Mostly you had to stop to get color, and then they really didn't hit you with much.  There was no blue cloud to walk thru. No disorientation.

I can't remember what street we turned up, maybe 31st, but it was a hill. Followed by four more hills. We were hit with orange on one of the hills. It landed in my ear and on my face. Again, maybe 6 color throwers. At Muhlenberg we were hit by yellow.  And finally near the end by pink. They had tons of people at the pink station they were mostly cheering the runners/walkers on. Excuse me stop cheering and go throw color! This was the only station where there was a small cloud of dust.

You can see by the finish line pix how clean we all were.

As people come in they have a color throw in front of the stage. Maybe every five minutes or so. Finally, we got a little color on!