I first got interested in this race because I heard if you donate a small fee to save the last 700 remaining mountain gorillas of Central Africa, you get a free gorilla suit. But really, it’s a great cause, and I’m glad we’ll be there supporting it. In fact, we were so excited that last week when we received our gorilla suits, we immediately put them on and paraded around the Yahoo! campus.

When I started working at Yahoo! almost a year ago, I didn’t expect to find so many people so passionate about so many causes – and we don’t just give money. Many Yahoos donate their time to causes they care about. That’s how I first got involved in racing. A co-worker suggested I join the team called “Yahoo!’s Your Daddy” for a relay competition last month where we ran 199 miles from Calistoga to Santa Cruz to benefit children in need of organ transplants.

If you make it to the race Sunday, keep an eye out for a gorilla wearing a purple Yahoo! cape – that’ll be me. And if you’d like to don your own hairy suit and beat your chest, act fast. There’s still time to join us (registration ends tonight!), or you can donate online to the cause. But whatever you do, don’t call us crazy – we prefer the term bananas.