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''[[The Color Run]]'' is an irreverent, [[carnival-like]],  running event in Port Elizabeth
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''[[The Color Run]]'' is an irreverent, [[carnival-like]],  annual running event held in various cities across the globe, including South Africa.
  
Run over a 5 km course, it claims to be the world’s largest untimed running series. It was founded in 2011, with the mission of bringing people together to make the world a happier, healthier place. Color Runners are encouraged to roll, hop, skip and run through the streets of the city.
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Founded in 2011, it is described on its website[] as "a five-kilometer, untimed event. At each kilometer mark, Color Runners are doused from head to toe in a different colored powder. Participants wear white at the starting line and finish the race plastered in color. Once the race is over, the fun continues at the Finish Festival, a larger-than-life party equipped with music, dancing, photo ops, activity booths, vendors, and more massive color throws, which create millions of vivid color combinations."
  
Participants begin the event in their white The Color Run T-shirts and complete it coloured from head-to-toe. The 2018 version for example included stilt walkers, balloon shapers, music, good-natured clowning around, and plenty of colour.
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'''''NOTE: The use of the American spelling of "color" is correct in the name of the run, in view of its origins. South African usage is normally "colour"'''''
  
'''''NOTE: The use of the American spelling of "color" is correct here. South African usage is normally "colour"'''''
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South African cities listed on the website include Port Elizabeth, Johannesburg, Benoni, Pretoria, Durban, Polokwane, and Cape Town.
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The 2018 version of the run was dubbed '''''[[The Carnival Tour]]'''''.
  
 
==Sources==
 
==Sources==
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https://thecolorrun.co.za/
  
 
https://www.grocotts.co.za/2018/12/13/colour-run-carnival-in-pe/
 
https://www.grocotts.co.za/2018/12/13/colour-run-carnival-in-pe/
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https://thecolorrun.com/
  
 
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Latest revision as of 06:22, 29 March 2019

The Color Run is an irreverent, carnival-like, annual running event held in various cities across the globe, including South Africa.

Founded in 2011, it is described on its website[] as "a five-kilometer, untimed event. At each kilometer mark, Color Runners are doused from head to toe in a different colored powder. Participants wear white at the starting line and finish the race plastered in color. Once the race is over, the fun continues at the Finish Festival, a larger-than-life party equipped with music, dancing, photo ops, activity booths, vendors, and more massive color throws, which create millions of vivid color combinations."

NOTE: The use of the American spelling of "color" is correct in the name of the run, in view of its origins. South African usage is normally "colour"

South African cities listed on the website include Port Elizabeth, Johannesburg, Benoni, Pretoria, Durban, Polokwane, and Cape Town.

The 2018 version of the run was dubbed The Carnival Tour.

Sources

https://thecolorrun.co.za/

https://www.grocotts.co.za/2018/12/13/colour-run-carnival-in-pe/

https://thecolorrun.com/

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