Just a Splash of Colour

I was planning on documenting my experience with the run, the emotions I felt, the (expected) pain from the run, and so on, but what I found was it was remarkably easy to run this. I made it in well under an hour, and this included the stops for pictures. I ran, on average, a 13 minute mile, finishing the whole event in 39 minutes. Not bad for a first timer.

The Nikon D100 hiccuped a few times (but it had been doing that before the race as well. What do you expect for free?) but once it settled down, it was a real workhorse. In addition, it survived the race and I'll be posting pics of what it looked like after the race.

Running

I entered a 5 kilometer colour run over the weekend. The object was to run 5 kilometers through bystanders (and volunteers) throwing paint bombs at you. I've never run before (I generally view exercise as something other people do) and I honestly didn't think I'd like it, or ever survive. While I am thin, I fully admit I'm not in shape. I made a silent promise to myself that I'd run this in under an hour (20 minutes a mile)

Also, I was going to shoot from within the race, which meant picking a camera to work with. As I'd recently acquired two spare dSLR bodies, a Nikon D70 and Nikon D100, I felt confident I could sacrifice one for this event. So here are some shots from the D100. As you will see, *everyone* loved doing this run!