The latest Colour Run event was held in Beijing on June 20, attracting an estimated 20,000 ‘colour runners’ to take part in the five-kilometre race.
The latest race in Beijing was the newest addition to a global series of Colour Run events, which featured an untimed five-kilometre race where runners were pelted with coloured powder.
The first Colour Run event was held in the US state of Arizona in 2012 in an effort to encourage casual runners to run for fun. It describes itself as an event to promote healthiness and happiness by bringing the community together to participate in the “happiest 5k on the planet”‘.
Some 30,000 runners take part in the Color Run in Beijing’s Garden Expo Park on Saturday @TheColorRun pic.twitter.com/kheYb4r0iT
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) 2015 6月 21日
The hype of bursting colours in Beijing! From the happiest 5K run happened just this weekend! @TheColorRun pic.twitter.com/FQDX72sfn7 — Visit Beijing (@beijingofficial) 2015 6月 22日
At the finish line of the Color Run in #Beijing, #China #Periscope @GlobalPeriscope @periscopeco pic.twitter.com/6l3aPMovqf — miketendstotravel (@MTendsToTravel) 2015 6月 21日
The Colour Run event will return to Hong Kong for the second time on December 6.
