The walking dead would not have been as fun to evade without the gang.
This is an unedited video frame shot from the sports camera I had. The view was really like a scene out of a zombie movie. This bunch of ghouls were hounding a clearing while we were waiting for our bunch to re-group past the electric shock house and zombie spewed mud pits. They don't look so fast, but their looks are definitely deceiving! But let's not get too ahead... and start from the beginning.
For our group, we all made it on time as planned, with enough time to spare. That's saying a lot! We did the usual prep --> gearing up, getting ready, assessing whatever it is that we can see.
We are at the start. How nice of the zombies to let us decide which meal course we want to be in. The gals can't say no to dessert!
CR getting serious now. Hazmat suit and gloves on! Now imagine running/sprinting/zombie evading while wearing that.
What's da plan?? As we all wait inside the human cage for release time.
Ready.. Set.. Run for your lives!!!
First up, the steep and narrow hill of flying dust balls, which produce National-Geographic-esque flocks of humans perfect for zombie pickings around the bend.
Someone makes the executive decision to take the path less traveled.
Upward we march. We chose trail #2 thinking it may be a short cut, only to find that it is an extended roundabout loop.
haha!! We got others to follow us too. See the people coming up this way from the split in the road? Yup. Wrong way.
Running is easy without them zombies around.
After this point, zombie evasion really goes into full force. Them zombies are EVERYWHERE. So.. sorry, but I ain't stopping to take photos. But, have no fear, hazmatter Chris to the rescue. He braved being the zombie attractor, evasion in a hazmat human oven, and taking some photos and video during the later part of the course.
Obstacles we encountered were steep mounds and pits of mud to crawl over, an electric shock house-maze with dangling electric wires and zombies around corners, chest high walls to climb over, army crawl through barb wires, more mounds of mud and pits, a mud slide, and all obstacles with zombies RIGHT THERE when you come out of the obstacle.
There was a stretch of semi-flat clearing with zombies EVERYWHERE. We would sprint past one group of zombies and evaluate the next group of zombies with the rest of the people there and then be forced to sprint and evade again when them zombies started closing in on us.
Them zombies were sneaky, some would seem to blend in and unsuspectingly grab flags from behind. Ryan could not be caught when he was Usain Bolt-ing, but he fell victim to the unsuspecting lurkers.
We were given tips prior to the race. Whatever you do, DO NOT make eye contact with the zombies and DO NOT STOP. They will zombie-chow you down. Oh yeah. Of course, I did both. Bam! Slip, slide, flag down. In all horror flicks, the victim always trips and falls at the worst possible moment. Yup. That's me! Took such a good wipeout fall, that a nice,still-alive human even stopped in the middle of a zombie infested field to see if I was okay.
Left-right, juke boxing Katy, a zombie-evading naturale, was making flag footballers proud as she was displaying the moves. Run, jump, shuffle, spin, and left-right fakes... right in front of zombies.. and it worked!! Totally awesome.
Mr.Nice guy, Curt, apparently flipped the Dr. Jekyll/Mr.Hyde switch on the zombies and used the "I'm crazier and scarier" tactic to keep them zombies at bay.
And Chris.. all he needed to do was to throw his glove-full of sweat to throw off zombies and humans alike.
Four out of five of us made it as survivors. Really though, I should have joined my hubby in becoming the undead. Before his transformation, Ryan acted as my zombie blocker and helped me make it to the safe zone. Just for that, I'll keep my zombie-transformed hubby. =)
Here are some video highlights. Excuse the raw quality, afterall, the camera man was evading zombies.
We missed having the Chuckster, the KO, and K-Dawg on our team. Maybe at the next apocalypse!?
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