Okay, the pressure is on.

My gym is offering a free month's membership to the best fitness-related Hallowe'en costume. A Free Month! Last year only one woman dressed up and even though it was the saddest excuse for a costume I have ever seen, she won by default because the rest of us were too slackitudinous to even try.

A free month. As you can well imagine, my Inner Cheapskate is now beating her chest and making scary, territorial gorilla sounds. This year That Free Month MUST Be Mine.

Except ... well, except ... when it comes to ideas for a fitness-related Hallowe'en costume, um, er, ah ... I got nothing.

I know that many of my three loyal readers are creative souls. Throw me a bone, toss me some ideas.

There are a few restrictions:

1) I'm cheap so it can't be expensive to make
2) My patience levels are only slightly above that of the average two-year-old so it cannot be insanely elaborate or time consuming to pull it together
3) I have to cross from Canada into the U.S. so if make-up is to be involved, it will have to be make-up I can apply in the parking lot of my gym since the border guards like to make sure the face in the car matches the face on the driver's licence. In other words, relatively simple make-up.

Must. Win. Free. Month.

I'm counting on you guys.

--Marn

P.S.�Check out the
Brittney Spears cover. It made tea come out of my nose.

Mileage on the Marnometer: 738.42 miles.
Oh man. This is going to be hard
Goal for 2004: 1,000 miles - 1609 kilometers