Thousands Dress For Annual Ugly Sweater Run In Fairmount Park

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- More than 5,000 people bundled up and gathered at the Please Touch Museum for the 5th annual Ugly Sweater Run in Philadelphia.

This is one of those days when you can tell someone their sweater is the ugliest thing you've ever seen, and they'll thank you for it.

"I think it's just fun," Maura from Delran, New Jersey. "We're all getting into the Christmas spirit."

She was sporting a sweater with a big picture of Santa Claus that read: Don't Stop Believin.'

Race director Ian O'Brien says people are even including their four-legged friends in the fun.

"Eight or ten dogs at the first race, grew to 20 or 30," he says, "and I think out here's there's got to be at least a couple hundred."

The event included an award ceremony at the end where a prize was given away for the most inappopriate ugly sweater.

Donations from the run benefit the Save the Children Foundation.

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