it says "aaah! zombies!" i wonder what that means?

[dilletante]

this morning moominmolly and i ran a zombie obstacle race. this was pretty fun! it's a 5k race with obstacles, and also there are zombies chasing you

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[chienne_folle]

What a wonderfully goofy idea for a race! Thanks for telling us about it.

[bloodstones]

This sounds like a ton of fun, although the fact that I went through their website thoroughly and couldn't find anything about how much registration costs irritated me to no end.

[dilletante]

oh, that is irritating. looking at the receipt, it looks like we paid $63 each, including some sort of $10 discount which I think was them trying to drum up extra signups at some point when they were afraid they wouldn't have enough and a $6 charge that's listed as an "online registration" fee. i gather that's about twice as much as one would generally pay for a regular 5k road race.

[twoeleven]

I'm glad y'all are in training for the zombie apocalypse, tho better luck next time. :)

[maighread]

There were not nearly enough zombies, at least in the AM, when you were going through. Although zombies were not supposed to take your third flag until zones 7 through 10, there were some hungry zombies in the beginning that weren't paying attention to that rule of thumb I think. Most of the people coming through our area of zone 7 just past the smokehouse either had lost all of their flags already (oops), gotten great at dodge & weave (awesome!), or were actually holding or hiding their last one or two flags (lame

[dilletante]

oh, you were one of the zombeez! hah. :) i loved the zombeez.

(4 zombies wearing yellow shirts with black tape stripes around them, and antennae. the course folded back on itself, so you'd pass by where they were and see them early on without going through them, then come back and go through them towards the end.)

i'm sorry i didn't recognize you!

it sounds like one gets a very different perspective as a zombie! now i really want to try it as both

[maighread]

I bet it is better to group up at the end, especially since there are fewer people alive at that point, which means more meat shields to hide behind and more people working to protect the last few alive. It may also depend on the type of obstacle and the number of zombies in a particular zone

[moominmolly]

Wow! Yes, early zombies didn't know the flag pacing rules - I lost all three by mile 1!

So delightful that you were one of the zombeez. How did the make up work - did you do your own?

Definitely want to try again next year!

[fanw]

Sounds absolutely fun, and a definitely like the serial sprinting part! (Kinda like a foreshortened soccer game as a midfielder -- with ZOMBIES.) Let me know if you need more teammates next year!