By Anne Halliwell

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Runners caked in bright pink, purple, orange and green powder streamed through the ending arches of the 2015 Color Me Rad 5K on Saturday morning.

The ground throughout Masterson Station Park was streaked with more color as the crowd made its way through the area and dusted each other with the contents of more color packets.

Alpha Delta Pi hosted the color run for the third year in a row to benefit Lexington’s Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Bluegrass. Philanthropy chair Mallory Zaino said that although she didn’t have a final number for how much money was raised, in the past the run has raised about $12,000 for their philanthropy.

“I know we were worried that the cold would keep people from showing up, but it looks like everyone who signed up showed up,” Zaino said.

Zaino commended the ADPi volunteers who manned the eight color stations, which splattered the runners with powder and gel paint as they passed.

“Regardless of the cold, they had a really great attitude,” she said.

Many of the runners wore light-colored clothing to better display the paint streaks.

Georgetown resident Rachel Isaacs drove about 30 minutes to attend the color run. She said the most fun part of the day was watching the other participants dress up in neon accessories and get colored at every arch.

“You have fun and you also get families meals to eat,” Isaacs said.

Laura Howard, a recent dietetics graduate from UK, attended the run with her mother and sister.

“We just thought it looked like fun,” Howard said. “We pretty much walked the whole way, but it was.”

Howard and her family paused at the ending arches to take photos and empty more paint packets over themselves before leaving.

“It seemed like a really fun spring activity,” Howard said. “Even though it’s actually cold.”