Emmjay and Emmlet II – Before the Run
Story by Emmjay, Photography by Ms Phoebe and Ms Bridie
Last Sunday, the Pig’s Arms Humorous Runners hit the road, joined by a few strangers and a couple of trusty pals in the Swisse Color (sic) 5 km run. Twenty thousand others tagged along, raising $200,000 for Children’s Heart Disease Research – HeartKids.
A Bit Less than Half of the Starters – the start line is that arch in the middle of the horizon
Beginning its Australian tour in Melbourne in November 2012, The Swisse Color Run in Sydney was next up as it continues on its national tour, to include Brisbane, Adelaide, Gold Coast, Newcastle and Canberra.
At each kilometre point, runners were able to accept or reject (why be there ?) the advances of teams hurling brightly coloured powders at previously pristine T-shirts and their occupants, culminating in several huge crowd throws at the finish line.
Emmlet II – After
And it ended like this:
Adults behaving like Children – It was Great Fun ! Image Borrowed from the Color Run Facebook Page
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
I can see from from the polaroids Emm that you and Emmlet II are just big kids at heart. Looks like a lot of fun.
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Well done indeed. Lot of fun happening.
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Reminds me of that Hindu festival, with all of the coloured powder.
Well done Emmjay, and offspring.
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Yes, a Hindu festival, Big M, that’s what i thought…Father and daughter look well, with or without the paint..
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Exactly, Big. Why should the sub-continentals have all the fun ? The coloured powders were manufactured in India and a massive three tonnes adorned the runners and the Olympic precinct on the day. I’m hoping the supposedly safe colours were not made from industrial waste or radioactive material, but hey, wouldn’t be the first time one country exported its waste to another less well-informed nation.
I have to apologise to VOR – in case she’s out there – for the plethora of Americal abuse of the language. I will stick with “colour” instead of color until they cart me off in a box.
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Great pictures and a fit looking Emmjay family. How did the five km run go Emm? Fit?
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It went pretty much at a walking pace, Gez. Lack of training, a general disinterest in performance in favour of the great community spirit of being out for some harmless naughtiness.
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Oops! Sorry, I meant Mike and Emmlet II (Wunna theze daze I’m gunna learn howta read the captions BEFORE commenting, inn’ I?)
😉
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Referring to your comment below asty: I think it is perfectly safe to say about Emm and the Emmlet that they are coloured. 😉
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Colorful looking couple you have there! Onya Mike and FM! A well-deserved round of applause!
Hip-hip, hurray! (x3)
😉
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The sunglasses woud have helped to spare the eyes. I wonder what your insides look like.
Well done tho’. We made the first 15, 000 eh? I suppose there isn’t a cup for that. 🙂
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Spot on. Literally. Sunglasses were a strong suggestion and useful on such a sunny warm day as well as for keeping out the powder. Little kids had their swimming goggles on – which turned out to be a very good idea.
I wondered at the state of lungs too, ‘Shoe. My only indication so far is that the interesting hankie check results cleared up pretty quickly. Say no more.
At the finish, the big clean-up station had ……. compressed air guns … which, like leaf blowers merely redistributed the problem 🙂
Right, no cups for us, ‘Shoe. So I brought the T-shirt home with the instruction to spray it with vinegar, and then iron it – to set the colour. FM who was off doing the supermarket shopping while we were off having a whale of a time, kindly washed the T-shirt remarkably clean while I was showering. Helpful, eh ?
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That was careless of you, Emmjay, to leave the T-shirt down after successfully running the gauntlet. Chumpy chap.
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