Colour Run kicks off Easter Weekend

Bourke’s Colour Run is one of the most popular events on the Easter Festival calendar Photo: TWH

The Colour Run is the first community event to kick start the Bourke Easter Reunion Festival and it’s the perfect way to begin what is shaping up to be four days of fun and festivity.

The five kilometre run is not timed, with the main emphasis on competitors getting as drenched in water and spray on colour as possible by the end of the race.

It has proven to be one of the most popular events on the Easter weekend calendar. Run by the Bourke PCYC, the event attracted more than a hundred participants for its inaugural run last year.

Read more in the printed edition of the Western Herald.