In looking at race schedules you see littered throughout races which provide interesting draws. The rage right now are the mud races. These are races like Warrior Dash or Tough Mudder. In these races, you are getting down and dirty - literally. Themed races though are not limited to mud.
Beer and wine are the centerpiece in many races. Tap n' Run, Wine and Dine, immediately come to mind. In France there is a race or two which has wine along side the water at the aid stations. There are beer miles out there, where you down a beer for each lap around the track.
Now I read there is the Color Race. This is a 5K where you start out wearing a clean white shirt, but as you run you get splattered with dry paint/chalk. At the end of the race, you have one colorful shirt.
There is a Hot Chocolate Tour, where you are rewarded with hot chocolate, and all things chocolate after the race. As long as it isn't splattering someone with hot chocolate, I'm all for it.
What these races do is they bring people into running who may not have run before, or as much. As I talk with beginning runners, more and more I am hearing they got into running, because they wanted to do Tough Mudders. I think this is a good thing. The people who are running purists, or running snobs can hate on these all they like, but in the end, they don't have to run these races, and it brings more people into our sport.
Now.....this doesn't mean I would like to see a Tough Mudder Marathon. 26.2 miles of mud? ICK! But that's just me.
Charlie
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Most of the "mud" runs aren't muddy until a final obstacle -- so it wouldn't be 26.2 miles of mud.
I read about a donut-themed race, where you got 10 seconds subtracted from your time for each donut you ate an aid station. Now that's just crazy :)
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