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Narrator: It was another dark and cloudy day in
the farmlands of Massachusetts until all hell broke loose!
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without warning, the road was packed
with thousands of people running for their lives!
Hot on their heels...a ravenous zombie hoard
And I was right there with them.
Hungry for brains!
How did it come to this?
Well, that's gonna require a flashback...
[farm music, rooster crows]
Morning on the Buckner farm, dawn just about as cool and easy as can be.
But something just wasn't right...
[sniffs]
Rocket: Smell death on the air...
Narrator: That was the morning the zombies came.
[scary music]
And it wasn't just 1 or 2 undead stragglers, no sir!
It was an army of them!
[scary music]
It didn't take long for the virus to take effect.
[growls]
Slowly, I began to understand just why everyone was running
from zombies. This was the 'Run for Your Lives 5k Race'
Derrick Smith: My name is Derrick Smith
Co-Founder of Run For Your Lives we're in
Amesbury, Massachusetts, at the site of a zombie apocolypse.
Derrick: It's differnet than a regular 5K.
We have the non-participant interaction, so not only
do you have to get from start to finish,
not only do you have to get through all the obstacles,
we have zombies throughout the course and their
mission is to pull the runner's flags.
You have 3 health flags and you go ahead and try to get
through the course
and if you loose all your flags, you still
finish the race, but on official timing
you'll be listed as dead.
There's no physical contact from zombie to runner, from
runner to zombie. It's a big thing.
We have 10 more events in 2012, that's
9 in the states then we do 1 in Canada in September
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[zombie noise: hungry]
Narrator: But these empty calories could not satisfy my
zombie belly. I needed something more
nourishing. I needed..I needed...I needed the future
of digital journalism!!
And now I had him. Right where I wanted him.
ARRGGHHH!
[screams!]
[groans]
[high beat music]
AARRRHHHH!!!
From beyond the grave, for The Daily,
this is Justin Rocket Silverman.