What the Colour Run is all about

MOSSEL BAY NEWS - The Colour Run has been called the happiest 5km on the planet. This year's colour run will start in Mossel Bay at Santos Beach on 23 December.

The Colour Run concept has been experienced by more than six million runners worldwide in 35+ countries and now for the first time in 2018, the island of Mauritius.

The 5km event has no winners, no prizes and runners are showered with coloured powder, made of food-grade corn starch.

Forget about your personal best and think more about having the time of your life.

Join the 5km fun run, where you'll be smashed from head to toe in coloured powder, while also dancing your way through dreamy foam clouds and experiencing thousands of perfect photo opportunities.

You can walk, skip, run or dance the course.

According to statistics, more than 60% of the participants are running a 5km race for the first time and more than 70% are women aged 18–40.

Runners begin dressed in clean white T-shirts and pass through three colour stations and two music stations.

The Summer Music Colour Run is a unique brand conceptualised to take place during holiday time and summer.

For the first time this year, the music element will be combined with a powder element, creating more excitement en route for everyone.

All the events are built on three core beliefs. The first belief is healthiness: while the events are all about having fun, the colour run also wants to help and encourage everyone who participates to lead a healthier lifestyle, both physically and mentally.

Happiness: Many smiles have been put on people's faces over the past few years. For the organisers of the colour run, this is the greatest achievement yet, and the pursuit of creating happiness drives them every day.

The colour run promotes individuality.