Photos by Brett Phelps and Carrie Legg
- Chautauqua’s youngest — and most enthusiastic — runners are doused in colored cornstarch at the end of Sports Club’s Color Sprint Thursday afternoon beneath the Youth Activities Center balcony. Brett Phelps/Staff Photographer
- A dyed t-shirt lies on the Chautauqua Lake's shoreline after the Color Sprint. Brett Phelps/Staff Photographer
- Wyatt Griffith, 9, gets sprayed with water at the beginning of the Color Sprint’s route from Children’s Beach to the Youth Activities Center. A quick blast of water at the start of the race makes for stickier, more saturated hues from the cornstarch throughout the race — and during the vibrant explosion of colored powder across the finish line. Carrie Legg/Staff Photographer
- Aviv Granek, 6, throws bright blue cornstarch on participants as they run by. Carrie Legg/Staff Photographer
- Thirteen-year-old Austin Walkerly, left, cheers on in excitement as, counterclockwise, thirteen-year-old Izzy Walkerly, thirteen-year-old Charlotte Toomey, and thirteen-year-old Paige Golish surround thirteen-year-old Abby Cooke after jumping into Chautauqua Lake to cool down and wash the colored powder off. Brett Phelps/Staff Photographer
- Aiden Brady, 10, rolls on the ground to get as much colored chalk on him as possible. Carrie Legg/Staff Photographer
- Young Chautauquans rush to finish during the Color Sprint Thursday afternoon, Aug. 3, along South Lake Drive. Brett Phelps/Staff Photographer