Electric Run

Why did today have to be the first day all year, and pretty much in a whole year, that it decides to snow?!
Basically the day started out dry on my way to work at 6:30am and was dry most of the morning. Throughout the busy day there were heavy rain showers, but not continuous rain. Then at 4pm when I finished it was sunny and blue skies, right up until I came through the door when they sky turned that odd shade of yellow grey jest before it throws it down!
I fed Ted his dinner and got changed ready for the first Electric Run in Ireland later that night.
I was unsure what to wear in the end due to the bad weather but decided to go for normal run clothes with layers added to keep warm and dry. Rain mac out and hoodie on I braved the torrential rain to walk back into town to meet Ali Kelly and Hayley for the run.
I saw Ciara off for her Paulo Nutini concert and met the girls in the Store and we waited for Luke to finish work to all set off together on the bus.
The first bus was full so whilst we waited for the next one in the freezing cold, we snapped all our glow sticks and attached lights for shoe laces and tried to keep warm. We were a little late so by the time we arrived at the RDS there were so many people all waiting behind the start line, and many who had already started running in waves. In total we were waiting, moving forward a few hundred runners at a time for over an hour in the cold.
We met some very odd and interesting runners in front of us, 3 girls who were Canadian and another group with an overly camp guy who used to do gymnastics (and demonstrated) who had a sport bottle of white wine in his hand!
As glow sticks were strewn from the DJ above the start line, we crossed and began our 5k run/jog/dance beneath neon and UV lights and Avicii anthems blasting out into the crowd.
The run wound its way through the out buildings of the RDS and for each section there was a theme - there was the dance shed where we stopped to have a little rave,there was lollipop trees bedecked in coloured paper lanterns, there was the rainbow run with lit up air-filled arches And there was the umbrella room where umbrellas were hung upside down and lit with green lights that danced to the beat of the music. They were hypnotic and especially beautiful.
The last leg was beneath the rainbow arches and we half jogged, half raved our way along to a remix of Billie Jean and Mario Kart, which was epic, and crossed the finish line into a huge concert warehouse filled with racers and a stage where a DJ was blaring out great raving tunes for strobe lights to dance to.
The first thing we all did was join the queue for chips and we ate in silence as we each inhaled our warming supper before having a mini dance sesh as the back of the crowd and having the last photos taken together.
The most running we actually did was after we got the bus back to town and raced up to Grafton Street to McDonalds for burgers and mozzarella sticks before grabbing a cab home.
Today I am grateful for my hot water bottle after feeling so cold and numb from the race.