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LAWRENCE
'Happiest 5K on the planet'takes stride Saturday
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TARA BRYANT
tbryant@kansan.com
As runners and walkers pass through the blue station of The Color Run in Kansas City on July 1, most participants slowed down, or rolled on the ground, to cover themselves with as much color as possible.
University of Kansas students are ready for the "happiest," craziest 5K run of their lives. The Color Run will paint Lawrence red and blue... and yellow, orange, green and pink on Saturday, Oct. 6.
The excitement surrounding The Color Run attracts experienced runners and amateurs alike, and it introduces more people to an active lifestyle.
"It appeals to anyone, whether they're intense athletes or just looking for a good time," said Rachel Seitz, a sophomore from Hutchinson. "I know girls who have expressed interest in the run even though they don't run or like running."
Jackson Cozzens, a spokesperson for The Color Run, said The Color Run has motivated all types of runners.
"The Color Run has been an
inspiration to a lot of people to get out and get active", Cozzens said. "Although we do see a lot of serious runners come out to experience a non-timed event, the majority of people are less-experienced runners."
Participants will run five kilometers (slightly more than three miles.) and will be doused with colorful powdered paint at each of the four kilometers leading up to the finish. At the end of the race, runners enter a color explosion. The Color Run's video on YouTube explains the race best.
The run gained popularity quickly through social networking sites. Pictures and videos of paint-splattered runners dressed in all white blew up on sites such as Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter. This year, The Color Run became the fastest growing running event in history, according to a Color Run news release.
Seitz and Rachel Volk, a freshman from Newton, both heard
about the run on Pinterest. Seitz and Volk will run with a group from Miller Scholarship Hall, where they both live.
"I was going to do it on my own, but I asked people if they
Cozzens quoted Travis Snyder, the executive director and creator of The Color Run, about the idea of creating a nontreat
ening running event.
"Doing The Color Run is more about being social, a little more about the experience and mostly just about being," Snyder said. "It's less about expectation; it's just fun."
Stephen Opskar, a junior from Derby, is a personal trainer at the Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center and plans to run in The Color Run next weekend. He said the social aspect of running helps to get people more involved.
"I especially with me, if I don't want to go run and I don't have someone else to go with me, then I won't do it," Opskar said. "If you have a partner, it holds you more accountable."
A study by Gallup and Healthways supports what some students have already noticed: Americans are exercising more this year. Opskar he sees more runners at the Ambler recreation center this year than last
year.
"I know a lot of people that don't really run, but they want to do The Color Run, so they start running," Opskar said. "I think people are realizing that they need to get out there and do something."
More people have started running because of The Color Run, Volk said, and it appeals to a variety of runners.
"It's not your typical 5K," Volk said. "It's more of a friendly get-together 5K; an activity rather than a workout."
Bob Sanner, the executive director of the Lawrence Sports Corporation, said more than 6,300 runners and walkers signed up to participate as of Sep. 24. The Color Run will be in Downtown Lawrence this Saturday at 4 p.m.
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CAMPUS
Author Eula Biss will visit campus today for a literature discussion with students at 5 p.m. in the lobby of the Kansas Union. Biss is the author of "Notes from No Man's Land," a collection of essays chosen by the University for this year's KU Common Book reading program.
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Common Book author visits campus for student forums
HANNAH BARLING hbarling@kansan.com
Eula Biss is the author of the KU Common Book and will be visiting campus today to discuss "Note from No Man's Land: American Essays."
"I'm trying to unravel the knot of experiences, to figure out why I feel uncomfortable," Biss said.
The book addresses issues including race, place and identity. Biss said a lot of her essays come from experiences that left her unsettled, wondering and full of questions.
Christina Kerns, program coordinator of Office of First-Year Experience, said it makes the whole experience more useful for students. Kerns said attending the event will be beneficial because it encourages critical thinking and dialogue that has already been happening but will now take place on an even higher level.
Biss earned her BA in nonfiction writing from Hampshire College and her MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. She now is an Artist in Residence at Northwestern University teaching writing.
"My work is so concerned with thinking about the community, and it is very meaningful to me that a whole community across a campus is engaging in my book," Biss said.
"Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays" was chosen as KU's first common book, described by the Office if Public Affairs as a "campuswide initiative to engage first-year students" in a discussion of important modern issues. Biss said being chosen was a "tremendous honor" for her.
As a writer, Biss said that it's interesting to talk with readers, because most don't get that opportunity.
"It puts a face to a work the students have seen as academic," Kerna said. "It's a unique opportunity."
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Some of the questions laid out in the book are some of the fundamental questions of identity that college students deal with.
Biss wrote a lot of "Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays" while she was very young, just out of college. It is a coming-of-age story and took her seven to 10 years to complete. The book addresses the process of growing up and parallels it to America's maturation from a young nation to a more adult nation. It explores how to come to terms with issues of our nation's past.
"I'm trying to reckon what it means to be a young white woman in this country and my responsibilities as that," Biss said.
Student Union Activities' Tea at Three will be hosting a casual conversation with Biss in the
Traditions area on the fourth floor of the Union. "Who, Then, is One's Neighbor?" will be a conversation with students about Biss' book "Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays" at 5 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom. The Commons of Spooner Hall will be hosting "Coffee and Conversation" with Eula Fusa on Friday at 9 a.m.
"In the deepest sense, it's kind of picking up where I left off," Biss said
Biss is currently working on a book about vaccination and its history and politics, a completely different subject. She's discovered that some of the concerns are surprisingly similar.
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