Color Me Rad -- No, not the band. The band's name was Color Me Badd. This is a race.

Hi, All!

It was brought to my attention today that there is going to be one heck of a 5k in Pittsburgh on August 25th.  I am jumping up and down super-duper excited about it!  Seriously, I did jump up and down for a quick second.  Nope, I not ashamed enough to keep this fact from you.


The race is called Color Me Rad,
and basically, you wear a white shirt and sunglasses and at every kilometer, people throw colored powder at you. Your shirt gets colored, your hair, your skin, all of you gets colored up. Sounds like a blast :)


It reminds me of the Celebration of Holi in India which is also called the Festival of Colors. That -------->
is a picture of Holi.






<--------------- This is a picture taken at a Color Me Rad race.  Similar concept, different reasons for the coloring of others :)






Sooo, since I'm a big nerd and excited about this race being in Pittsburgh, I posted about it on Facebook and found that quite a few people are interested in running, too.  YaY!

It got me to thinking that I should form a team called, "being.messy.beautiful" since, well, it seem that we will get messy, and color is beautiful, and well, what do you know, that's the name of this blog...

A few hours later, Roo, of Nice Girl Notes, wrote that she knows one of the creators of the race and he asked if she wanted to get a team together for the race in Hartford in two-ish weeks and she agreed. (Btw, she rocks because she totally just had a baby like a minute ago.  Okay, it was a few weeks ago, but it's her 3rd baby, and her other littles are 3 and 2. Oh, who does that sound like? You say me? What? Yeah, she's on the fast track, too, and now she is going to run a 5k? Dude, I didn't do that to #3 was 4 months old. Roo, you go girl.) Anyway, the real point is this:  The creator guy, Jon, offered her a code, "nicegirlnotesblog" for people take 20% off of registration until May 16th.  What?!  Us, too? Yes!  We can have our own team, with our own name, but when the registration box asks about who referred you (I think that it asks?  I'm tired now, and I can't remember even though I did just register), please type in, "Nice Girl Notes".  That's it.  Thanks, Roo, you rock.  You could probably "like" her in FB, too, and throw a little love her way.

I did sign up for the race a little bit ago, received my confirmation email, and I am ready to race/get colored, with you.  Go sign up!

Team name is being messy beautiful.  Last name is, well, my last name.  You should know my last name, but if you don't, email me and I'll tell you. Discount code is nicegirlnotesblog. You'll have until May16th to received both the loyalty price and the 20% off discount!  Let's be messy.beautiful together!

Blessings! and Joy!
nicole mArie




Also, please go and listen to this song.  It's been in my head all day.  Color Me Rad doesn't = Color Me Badd, but I am glad that it made me remember All 4 Love.  Dude, another also: Children of the 90's used text language before anyone knew what texting was.  Boom.