For some, running can be an excruciating experience. To many others, it's what they live for. But however you feel about running, there's no doubt the experience can be improved by the donning of a ghoulish costume or  vampire teeth and a cape. Enter the Black Cat Five-Mile Fun Run, a family-friendly jaunt through Point Defiance Park set to go down at dusk this Saturday. Organized by Metro Parks Tacoma, the event caters to runners and walkers of all levels, and the registration fee gets you free glow sticks, black fleece running gloves and hot cocoa, tea or coffee at the finish line ... or water if you're, like, a really hardcore runner and stuff.

Be sure to pick up this week's Weekly Volcano for our prediction of what will happen during the Black Cat Five-Mile Fun Run.

Black Cat Five-Mile Fun Run

Saturday, Oct. 23, 5:30 p.m., check in 4:30 p.m.
$25 until midnight, Oct. 21, $35 on the day of the race.
Point Defiance Park's Five Mile Drive
5400 N. Pearl St., Tacoma