2Nov/091
Halloween Gorilla Run
No pumpkin carving or trick-or-treating for us this year... but one giant costume party!
Matt, his dad and I were 3 of the 1061 gorillas who took over the streets of downtown for the Denver Gorilla Run on October 31. We signed up to run the 3.5 miles (5.6 km) thinking it should be pretty easy, but it turns out that even a relatively short run can get you out of breath and make you sweat buckets if you are a gorilla - or even if you are just wearing a furry full-body suit with a plastic mask and trying to run at an altitude of 5200 feet (1600m)!