By: JOY MIHANNI Edited by: ARYA ROERIG From the die-hard runner to the first timer there are many unique 5K races to run. We’ve complied seven awesome 5k races. So lace up your favorite shoes and let’s go! The Color Run – Billed as “the happiest 5k on the planet,” The Color Run hosts 5k […]

By: ARYA ROERIG It’s October. I can’t deny that fall is here and with it comes the loss of all the cool things we get to do outside when it’s hot. My last hurrah for the season started this past Friday when we packed up the car for the 4+ hour drive to Ashland, WI, and […]

By: LINDSEY MURRAY Edited By: ARYA ROERIG This past July I had the opportunity to run a 5k like no other. Never before had I finished a race looking so drastically different then I had when I first started. The culprit of this unrecognizable change in appearance was none other than The Color Run. On […]

By: ALEXIS BLANDINE I was blinded; blinded by the iridescent sun peeking over the art museum, blinded by the bright, shining faces of the participants at the start, and blinded by the sea of white t-shirts that were donned by the twenty-three thousand people that surrounded me. But that was all about to change. Approximately […]

By: JACLYN MCBRIDE Edited by: ARYA ROERIG Nothing brings people closer than those moments during a race when you watch your teammate generously apply Body-glide to her crotch before her leg of the race. To be fair, though, she had the hardest leg of all— 8 miles with over 1,500 feet of elevation increase. She […]