Racing "In Style"

Mark Remy noted a few months back that there was an increase in the number of people who were running marathons in costumes. He chalked this up to:

1. A general lack of costume parties (he wasn't invited to the awesome TAF 80's party)
2. Wanting to stand out from the crowd (being that Boston filled up in 9hrs and 3min, I'm pretty sure he's right on the whole "blending in" phenomenon)
3. Racing times are getting slower (true... but I did run one of my fastest 5K times dressed as The Flash... guess I need to start training harder)
4. Costumes aren't more common, there are just more cameras to capture them (yes... but I'm pretty sure that of the 18 runners that competed in the first Boston Marathon, 0 were wearing costumes)
5. Those aren't costumes (AWESOME... Darth Vader totally IS running the marathon)

So, I did some additional "research"... found that it's a tradition in some races (ok, mud run and costumes, why didn't we know about this?!?), it's fun, and superheros have more energy. I can't wait for the Monster Dash! #20