The wait is over. The Color Run will be in town in October.

(Cape Town, 2 October 2015) The Color Run™ 2015 will be painting Cape Town from the mountain to the shore in shades of Technicolor.
Color Runners country-wide have been eagerly waiting for “The Happiest 5k on the Planet” to arrive in their hometowns. The Color Run is a five kilometre un-timed race in which thousands of participants, or “Color Runners”, are doused from head to toe in different colours at each kilometre.
 
Mark your diaries:
When: 17 October 2015
Where: Green Point Stadium
Time: 09H00 for 10h00
“The Color Run is bigger and better than ever, and that’s thanks in part to the fact that South Africa’s happiest bank, Capitec Bank, has come on board as the headline sponsor,” says Leon Swanepoel, The Color Run South Africa event producer.
 
 
Heart FM, the city’s biggest radio station, is the official media partner to The Color Run in Cape Town for the third consecutive year. Heart FM DJ’s will be on the decks to welcome Color Runners with awesome beats as the run gets under way.
Brighter, shinier and happier this year, with the introduction glitter powder, the event is designed to uplift and inspire runners to stand out from the crowd, sweat sparkles, and continue to live their lives in a happy and healthy way. Get ready for special shine elements at the Finish Festival. This is the year to unleash your inner sparkle!
 
“And, it is about so much more than just one day, which is why we are thrilled to have a sponsor that shares The Color Run’s passion for social upliftment,” says Swanepoel.
 
“Capitec Bank, like The Color Run, believes in health, happiness, individuality, giving back, living life in technicolour and having fun, while caring about the community,” says Charl Nel, head of communications at Capitec Bank.
 
Capitec Bank and The Color Run have partnered with Adopt-a-School Foundation and are donating R10.00 from every ticket sold to support education in each city hosting The Color Run. “To raise awareness for Adopt-a-School, we built a giant tekkie in which we will display the materials needed and purchased for the school identified in the area. The giant tekkie has been touring along with The Color Run, so don’t miss it in Cape Town!” says Nel.
 
Charity and school fundraising is a big part of The Color Run. Register your own school or charity on the Fun Raiser programme and raise money for every ticket sold under your unique Fun Raiser code. To give back, contact The Color Run on hello@thecolorrun.co.za. Tickets are available online from The Color Run website (http://thecolorrun.co.za) and Facebook (www.facebook.com/TheColorRunSouthAfrica). Individual ticket prices are R245 and R220 for groups of 4 or more. Manual entry points are listed on our website.
 
Stay tuned to Heart FM on your frequency for updates on The Color Run. Color Runners will each receive a race pack with includes a 2015 edition Race T-Shirt, headband, bag of colour powder, temporary tattoos, and a race number. Additionally, every Color Runner will receive a R200 voucher from Takealot.com for the purchase of The Color Run powder and merchandise, as well as a R200 voucher from
Superbalist to be redeemed against a minimum spend of R250.
 

About The Color Run
The Color Run is a feel-good, happy, colourful event. “Color Runners” of all shapes and sizes happily go from wearing pristine white clothing, to being covered in prismatic colour. At each kilometre mark, a different colour of powder fills the air and covers the participants, creating an ever-increasing spectrum of colour and beauty. At the finish line, the colour festival kicks off and the air is filled with millions of vivid colour combinations as participants get in on the colour throwing fun as well. For more information, go to www.thecolorrun.co.za or follow us on Facebook.
About Capitec Bank
Capitec Bank (JSE: CPI) is South Africa’s fastest growing full service retail bank. With 6.2 million active clients, R11.6 billion in equity and R53.9 billion in assets as of February 2015, Capitec Bank offers affordable, simplified and transparent banking with personalised service. Using innovative technology to drive down costs, increased accessibility and simplified, transparent client interactions, Capitec Bank’s Global One facility offers a range of transacting, saving and credit options accessed in real-time using paperless processes and the country’s first in-branch biometric client identification system. Capitec Bank was recently named South Africa’s best service and *best value bank in the South African Consumer Satisfaction Index (SAcsi), South Africa’s best priced bank in the Solidarity Report and the best customer service bank in the Ask Afrika Orange Index awards.
For further information on Capitec Bank visit www.capitecbank.co.za or follow Capitec on twitter.
About Heart FM
Heart FM is Cape Town’s Beat! The station broadcasts in the greater Western Cape region including Cape Town and surrounding areas the Drakenstein (102.7FM), West Coast, Swartland (106.3FM), Overberg (88.1FM) and Overstrand (88.8FM). Heart FM listeners have
strong family ties, are socially aware and committed to enjoying life to the full. Listeners are very brand conscious and are fiercely loyal to the Heart FM brand. The station attracts more than 586 000 listeners weekly (RAMS 2015/2) with its mix of jazz, soul, pop, old school, house and disco – a perfect mix of old and new. Listeners are also spoilt for choice with intelligent talk and entertainment spanning across shows. Heart FM broadcasts in English and Afrikaans. For more information visit www.1049.fm or follow us on Facebook at
www.facebook.com/heart104.9FM or twitter on www.twitter.com/heart1049fm