Can You Paint With All the Colors of the Wind.....

Yesterday (4/6/13) my sister, Donna and I met up with some of her co-workers to participate in the COLOR RUN at Fair Park, Dallas.  It started out to be a bit chilly but was perfect once the run started.  We decided to park downtown where my sister works - free parking after all! Then we would catch the train and ride to Fair Park.  Well, this was my first adventure on the train and apparently a few other people had our brilliant idea too because the train was packed and so were the stations along the way.

The official start time for the race was 8 a.m. but there were so many people (and we were close to the front) that we didn't even get started until close to 8:30 and there were people behind us as far as we could see.
We had to take some before shots while waiting for the train to arive:

There was a homeless man that was entertaining everyone by giving a play by play of the group of girls that were standing beside us and what they were doing while waiting for the train.  It was pretty funny.

The run was great.  It was hard to tell exactly what my time was because when you got to the mile and 1/2 mile markers is where you would get "colored".  There was a lot of congestion at these stops but everyone was having the best time - you didn't even care how long it was taking (and really not long at all - just a matter of walking instead of running at those points)

So we all met up at the finish line to look like this:

We were all given a packet of "paint" to throw at the finish line but I saved mine until Donna got there and the wind kind of carried it away but it was fun. 

As I was running, I was so overwhelmed that I was actually doing this.  I had said for about 3 years, I was going to run and never stuck with it.  It's so amazing to accomplish a goal!  Now, I will be training for a 10K and working toward that.  I told Donna that I can't imagine running for an hour at a time, but there was a time not so long ago that I couldn't imagine running 30 minutes at a time and I'm DOING IT!!!  I want to always keep challenging myself - just as I teach my 4th graders.  It's not enough JUST to reach a goal - no matter how sweet - it's about "WOW- what can I do next?"