Blog: This 5K Race Idea Bites, But in a Good Way

Given that runners now have multiple options for races almost every weekend, it helps to have something that sets your race apart. In my area, I've seen races that incorporate running up the steps of a baseball stadium, races that start at the stroke of midnight, races through tunnels that have been closed to traffic, races in costume on Halloween and races held on Thanksgiving where you can win a frozen turkey.

As it happens, I'm a sucker for weekend warrior events like 5Ks, and the latest one I'm diggin' is the Run For Your Lives 5K Zombie Race and Apocalypse Party, planned for Oct. 22 in Darlington, Md. It incorporates a few of my favorite things - the as-yet-unfulfilled prophecy of the world ending, Halloween and, of course, zombies, which are way cooler than vampires, no matter what the little Twilight groupies say.

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