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Mellow Yellow

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The color yellow loves a challenge, particularly a mental challenge. It is the color that resonates with the logical side of the brain stimulating our mental powers and creating new mental abilities.  Surround yourself with yellow before a brain storm  because yellow inspires original thought and inquisitiveness. If yellow is your favorite color you analyze everything and are very methodical in your thinking. We’ll give you a decision to make that’s easy, sign up and get your RAD on.

 

Top Ten Reasons to Run: #5

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Running alone is pretty great, but you know what’s even better? Running with friends. And the only thing better than running with friends, is running for free because you invited your friends! Now you can get a free Color Me Rad 5K registration just by doing all your friends a huge favor, inviting them to get RAD with you. Don’t spend any more time training solo, get a bestie out there to improve your PT.

How to Celebrate Your Finish Line Succes

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Crossing the finish line feels as satisfying as knowing all the right answers on any given Jeopardy round; there really is no other feeling like it in the world.  Here are the top 5 things you should plan on doing immediately following the finish line.

-Do a Little Dance

When you complete a run, you deserve to express through jerky rhythmic movements just how good it feels. We get inspiration for our finish-line moves every time we watch a touchdown dance; pick out your favorite here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV8jsAVJmao

 

-Hug Your Finish Line Friends

These could be your friends waiting for you at the finish line or the new friends you just made getting to the finish line. Share your enthusiasm and put your arms around someone, or high-five if sweaty hugs aren’t your thing.

 

-Eat Whatever You Desire

You just burned roughly a 100-calories-per-mile run, so if you’ve been denying yourself that ice cream cone, now’s your chance to enjoy it guilt-free.

 

-Buy Yourself a Finish Line Gift

You just accomplished a feat of mental and physical strength so treat yo’ self! We plan on grabbing these Nike Flyknits after our next finish line to keep us motivated with our running regime.

-Grab a Nap

You know you want it, and better yet, you know you deserve it.

Pretty in Pink

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The color pink is the universal color for affection, which is pretty universally well known, but what you may not realize is the color pink also nurturing and caring. If you’re favorite color is pink intuitive and insightful, so you go Glenn Coco. In color psychology, pink is a sign of hope. It is a positive color inspiring warm and comforting feelings, a sense that everything will be okay.

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If you’re ready to get covered head to toe in your favorite color, we’ve got the pink station all set, register here!

What Orange Says About You

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If orange is your favorite of all our RAD color stations, it means something! Orange inspires optimism and helps rejuvenate your spirit. In fact orange is so uplifting you should find a way to use it everyday, as that will improve your outlook on all things. The color orange relates to adventure and risk-taking, inspiring physical confidence, competition, and independence. Those inspired by orange are always on the go! If you haven’t had a chance to experience the soul rejuvenating orange station yet, or pick your favorite color station, sign up here

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Achieving Goals

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There’s nothing radder than setting and achieving goals then seeing your life change through your own actions. Here are some tips for successful goal making!

-Set a Date

Put your goal on a calendar when you set precise goals with dates and times. When you set a date with goals, you’ll know precisely when you’ve achieved it and you get to bathe in the warm goal-achieving glow.

-Start Small

Setting small achievable goals will keep you on track to achieve even bigger goals. If you had a goal to start working out 5 days a week, goal set for only  5 minutes the first week. It may sound too easy, but if you can do 5 minutes 5 days a week before you know it you’ll be able to work your way up to 20 mins 5 days a week.

-Commit Publicly

These days social media is all about over sharing, but now’s your chance to use FB for some good. Committing to your goals publicly will hold you accountable, and that’s always half the battle in goal setting.

– Get Excited

That’s right, get excited about your goal! Achieving goals can be hard work, so if you’re not excited you’ll lose steam quickly. Those goals aren’t gonna achieve themselves so get your attitude right and you’ll be crossing them off your list in no time.

Don’t forget to add “Get RAD” to your goal list, then click HERE and just like that, we’re helping you get that goal list achieved!

Top Ten Reasons to Run: #8

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Have you seen how RAD these can be? And the best part is you can wear them as short as you want, and it’s perfectly acceptable in the running world. We’ve compiled some of our favorite running shorts below, so start wearing short shorts with that runners pride.

 

How To Be Awesome

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“Awesome” has become quite the buzzword; seems like everything has been just that lately. We’ve compiled this list to help you become awesome-empowered. be-awesome

*Embrace the Body You Have, Not the Body You Want

Weather it’s the junk in your trunk or extra muffin on your top, quit fighting things and start loving them.  You’ll never be the center of a dance circle without the confidence of Beyonce, and we are 100% sure she embraces all her body.

*Look for More Reasons to High Five

There’s little else in this life more satisfying than the crisp slap of two hands meeting. It’s a non-verbal agreement that something has in fact just been awesome. So quit withholding your fives and start giving them out for any small-life victory. Filled your froyo punch card? Yeah that deserves a five.  Avoided a grocery store run by finding that last stick of butter? High five, you deserve it. You always deserve it!

*Make Achievable Goals

Nothing makes you awesomely accomplished like crossing something off your life list.  And while keeping “become President” on your list of goals is awesome, set some goals that are a little more quickly achieved.  Maybe try running a 7-minute mile, baking a Julia Childs meal, or learning to hula-hoop.  Get some goals on the paper and then get them crossed off.

*Don’t Be Afraid to Make Mistakes

Making mistakes is a part of life, so quit letting the threat of them stop you from being as awesome as possible.  Without mistakes we wouldn’t have chocolate chip cookies, sticky notes, or Coca Cola!  Get out there and make some mistakes and live a lot of life. Now come show the world just how awesome you can be by running RAD!

Color Me Rad Ombre Nails

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You think you’re all ready for your Color Me Rad race. You’ve got your white shirt, your RAD shorts, a tutu and enough color powder to send your friends to the other side of a rainbow.  But you’re missing one important addition ‘cus you’re not fully ready until your nails are did.  Luckily we’ve got a step-by-step tutorial to make sure your fingers look as fly as your outfit.

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Ombre Nails

What You Need:

  • -Make-up sponges
  • -At least two different fingernail polish shades of one color
  • -White fingernail polish
  • -Clear fingernail polish
  • -Q-Tips
  • -Fingernail polish remover

Step 1: Paint your nails with one coat of white nail polish (it will make the colors brighter).

Step 2: Cut the make-up sponges in half and paint 2 stripes with the color combo you want. Repeat for each color combo you’ll use.

Step 3: Sponge onto your nail, patting lightly to slightly blur the color line.

Step 4: Add a top clear coat.

Step 5: Remove excessive paint from your skin using a Q-Tip and fingernail polish remover.

Now you’re ready to get RAD!

Check out our Pinterest for more RAD nails and tutorials.