Stuart Park was awash with colour when almost 6000 people turned out for the event known as the ‘Happiest 5k on the Planet’.

National race director Woody Sedgman said the fun run, now in its second year at Wollongong, was a major success.

Participants of all shapes, sizes and fitness levels took on the five-kilometre course, some raising funds for their favourite charities.

They wound their way through a rainbow of colour zones from Stuart Park, along Flagstaff Hill and Lang Park and back to the start for the famous finish party.