Fremont hosts underwear-clad runners for Cupid’s Undie Run

Fremont is known for hosting events where Seattle residents strip down. On Saturday, runners, joggers and walkers will once again don a few less clothes.

Cupid’s Undie Run, in its third year in Seattle, is a 1K run/walk event where participants wear their underwear and flaunt what they got while raising money for a good cause.

The event is PG-13, says the Seattle event’s coordinator Rebecca Zeller. “We want to have fun with the fact that we’ve got this undie theme, but it’s not trying to be an incredibly sexy event. We just want people to have a great time. So we don’t want people exposing too much skin. We don’t allow anything like thongs.”

Zeller has coordinated the event all three years it’s been happening in Seattle. Cupid’s Undie Run first started in Washington D.C. as a fundraiser for the Children’s Tumor Foundation (CTF), to help research Neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder that affects one in 3,000 people.

This Saturday, 25 different cities will host an Undie Run, and according to Zeller, they’re expecting to raise $2 million for CTF.

Registration is full for the Seattle run, but that doesn’t mean you can’t come down and cheer on the runners – and even see some crazy underwear, folks dressed up like cupid, a pair of boxers on a participating dog, or some very clever costumes.

“One of my favorite participants is a woman with NF, Tracy,” says Zeller. “Last year she came as a superhero fighting NF. She had a cape and goggles.”

The run gets underway at 2 p.m. and starts and ends at the Ballroom in Fremont. Zeller said participants will spend part of their run on the Burke-Gilman trail by the canal so there should be plenty of room to see the spectacle.