In my quest to do anything and everything and anything that does NOT resemble normal road racing this year, I stumbled across this ridiculousness:
Yes, not only do you have to face the traditional obstacles, mud, and chaos of a typical mud run…but now you have to run from zombies trying to eat your brains (or steal your flags, same thing). I’m not even joking. This is a very real event.
talk about some inpromteau speed work… “There will be a start line, and a finish line, but what happens in between is up to you. There are multiple routes to reach the finish. Choose wisely, or your 5k might turn into a 10k.
(uh oh…anyone else remember that time I got LOST on the trail marathon?)
Got that? It doesn’t matter how fast you are, you simply can not win this race unless you can avoid the zombies. And it appears, they are EVERYWHERE.
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“Be. Aggressive. B-E Aggressive! (and don’t get eaten!)” |
What’s not to love about that? (says the girl who can’t even bring herself to go to Halloween haunted houses/forests/whatever because I’m such a pansy).
I can’t wait 🙂
Pittsburgh – Sept. 1, 2012
So how many of you crazy kids are going to join me? Check out www.runforyourlives.com to find the nearest race near you or to register today!
I’d love to hear your race experience!
That looks so fun.
omgosh!!!! this looks SO FUN!!!!!!!!
That. Looks. Awesome!!!! I would totally do it if I was anywhere near you!
I signed up for the Austin run to be a zombie! You get to scare other people and get to race for free. It’s another great option.
I so wish there was a close one for us Canadians…I would be there in a heartbeat.
or lack of heartbeat if you are a zombie.
I’ve seen this online before; it looks like a hoot! What are you going to wear?????
Saw this one online via a friend that knows I’m big into running. There isn’t one very close to us, but if it comes here, I’ll definitely be in. The flags bit kind of makes me wonder if the other runners will attempt to sabotage you by pulling them off as well. It’d be pretty weak to do that, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it happens.
What a coincidence. I just heard about this today at the Y and came straight home googled it. I found one 4 hours away near my anniversary and called my husband and convinced him we should do it! I’m so glad you blogged about it today to increase how excited I am about this race!
That looks like so much fun!
This is so flipping amazingly awesome!! I am jealous but at the same time I am waaaay to scares to do something like this. I absolutely CANNOT go to haunted houses!
Amazing! That looks to be so much fun and surely a breathtaking event for the runners like you heather. It seems like plants VS. zombies, when you have to protect your house not to be eaten by zombies. LOL, here you have to protect your flag inorder to be a survivor. You have to run for your Lives! Good luck girl!
No way! I would have nightmares for weeks. I let my imagination get the best of me. Best of luck!
I’m going to be a Zombie at the MD event (Oct!) I’m also doing Hero Rush (herorush.com) It’s the Firefighter-themed 5k obstacle race event
Holy Crap! I have no words!! I have never heard of this before. I am terrified of these type of things…BUT this has got to be one of the craziest races I’ve seen. However, I do love Zombieland, so maybe I might have to check this out. Will def be posting about this soon. Ha ha!!!
How do you get to be a zombie??
That race will be here later this year. I am hoping I will be all healed and able to run it!
This is a trip! Looks like a great race, and… if there are any believers out there, I had this same idea for a run and I had blogged about it two weeks ago. Same deal with zombies and the flags, but not the mud, and in my version, once your flag is taken, you yourself are a zombie and try to steal others flags. Here is the link: http://markmatthewsauthor.blogspot.com/2012/03/walking-dead-season-two-and-running.html
Obviously I’m not saying that they stole my idea, only saying that I’m one cool as hell kinda dude.
i know lots of people who did this one in MD and had a blast! And its a race that actually pays to be middle of the pack aka the faster you are the less runners are around you the the zombie to runner ratio is higher. when you are middle of the pack there are more people around you aka the zombies are dispersed to more runners ; )
I saw this but thought the price seemed kind of steep. Just me?