We EDMers and festie-heads are in a constant struggle.

Why?

Because somewhere in between (insert 9-5, 18 credits, or replaying all your favorite childhood videogames from start to finish in your parents house here), constantly refreshing webpages to get first round tickets to our beloved events, selling our bodies and souls for said events, and attending that very event for however many hours of however many days, were supposed to find the time to work-off every last piece of candy and insidiously expensive fried food platter we’ve consumed and look like this:

So, what to do?

Pursue your new-found obsession for the body improvement equipment you ordered on late night tv while coming down from a friday night double-fisting fishbowl bonanza? Not likely. Although you love electronic music, electric ab stimulators aren’t scientifically proven to work, yet.

Get yourself one of those expensively attractive personal trainers at your local gym to help you stretch your legs over head and help get your disenfranchised respiratory system in tip-top shape to compete in the next New York Marathon?

Well thankfully the folks at VAVi Sport and Social and the founders of Ragnar Relay thought this one through soberly and they made a combination that blows Eminem’s chimerical tornado/volcano meeting out of the water…

NO, YOUR EYES ARE NOT DECEIVING YOU.

This is the real deal. A 5k on crack. Well, a 5k on psychedelics, more likely. Beginning this year the ELECTRIC RUN is making its way across the United States and (if you’re lucky) to a city near you. Hitting NEW YORK CITY in JULY 2013, this BAMF of a race is gonna give all us all a run for our money (PUN GRANDSLAM).

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A fusion of “a 5k run, a show, participation art, and celebration of life” Electric Run is without a doubt going to be an experience unlike anything you’ve ever done before

and it

looks

AWESOME.

For all the logistics on the race you can check out www.electricrun.com where they have upcoming locations, registration dates, prices, and more photos.

And in case, for some strange reason, you find yourself on the fence about the whole thing, as if this editorial hasn’t surely sold you on the idea yet, heed Shorty’s warning: