The Zombie Run is a 3.1 mile racecourse of gut-wrenching, blood-pumping, sweat-dripping fear, which will come to town on Sunday, April 7, as part of a 16-city nationwide infestation, for the most exhilarating 5K of your life… if you survive. The Zombie Run is not your typical hometown 5K run, unless of course, your hometown is infested with an army of marauding Zombies. By using the popular Zombie theme, The Zombie Run creates a running narrative on a racecourse designed like a Hollywood Apocalypse movie-set, where participants either run through the course as Zombies, or living Zombie prey. Participants must run to safety, while dodging an imaginatively harrowing barrage of apocalyptic carnage. The Zombie Run is the only nationally touring Zombie race that takes over the actual streets of each city, and focuses on a fully scripted, suspense-filled back story. Professional, on-site make-up artists transform normal, everyday, warm-blooded runners into blood sucking, flesh eating Zombies. If you survive, there is a party following the race. The Zombie Run benefits Active Heroes, a volunteer-led charity helping veterans, active duty military and their families. A portion of proceeds from each event also will be donated to a local charity. The Zombie Run is the brainchild of 19-year-old Andrew Hudis and 20-year-old David Feinman. Hudis attends the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, and Feinman is currently studying at Bucks County Community College in suburban Philadelphia, with plans to transfer to Temple University’s Fox School of Business next year. “Three years ago, I told David that I always run fastest when I’m being chased,” said Hudis. “We joked that we should start a race where actors chase the runners to the finish line. Eventually, we realized that our idea could actually be a fun race.” What makesThe Zombie Run so different than other racing events? “Our race really focuses on story,” Hudis says. “Like a ride at Disney World, we create an alternate reality over an otherwise mundane experience. We focus a lot on runner experience, and spend the money that other races use on obstacles to enforce our theme and add more carnage to the racecourse.”
THE ZOMBIE RUN, SUNDAY APRIL 7 @ FDR PARK, CLICK HERE TO REGISTER