by Rojas Oliva, managing editor
The first Student Council sponsored 5K Zombie Run, open to all CSISD students, faculty and staff, will begin the morning of Saturday, Mar. 7 in the Transportation Center and will extend from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Admission is ten dollars, and signups are available during all lunches through Student Council. Students can sign up as runners or zombies.
The course promises to be full of mud, the undead and an assortment of obstacles, so The Roar sat down with course director Jason Pratt to get the scoop on just what to expect from this mix of the undead and fitness.
Q: How does the apocalypse start?
A: “They are gonna start you on a bus, I think I’m the bus driver, and we’re all ready to go and smoke [starts coming into the bus] and I’ll check on it and then someone will knock on the door. I’ll open and it’ll be a zombie and he’s gonna eat me and I’ll be screaming and everyone’s gonna dump out the back. Then they run through a course.”
Q: What will that course look like?
A: “They run out and there’s some random wandering zombies they have to dodge. They go over a big log that goes over a crick, there’s a hale bay — lots of things they have to load on to. They run, they dodge they climb, they’re gonna get muddy and they’re gonna get dirty.”
Q: Any other surprises?
A: “There’s a maze area where they make a choice: the right choice is zombies, the left choice mud and the middle choice question mark.”
Q: What’s the end look like?
A: “At the end they’re gonna finish at a big zombie field and that’s where most of the sprinter zombies are gonna be. So they’re already going to be weary and tired, and the last thing they’re gonna do is sprint from other zombies.”
Q: How do people become zombies?
A: “You can decorate yourself or we do a zombie makeover on you.”
Q: What about runners?
A: “If you get grabbed and head-butted or something, I don’t know. We’ll figure something out. [Depending on] If you get infected [or not] you get a shirt that says ‘zombie infected’ or ‘zombie free’. You can go as many times as you want, but it’s an extra five dollars. You can be a zombie in the morning and a runner in the afternoon.”
Q: Why a zombie run?
A: “We wanted to do something that was new, that neither school has done. It’s not going to be about Tigers or Cougars, it’s collaboration between the schools and kids getting together and having fun together. It’s not about us individually, it’s about us as a district.”
Pratt and the district hope to make this an annual event.
I’m excited about this event. I’ll be out there as a zombie – I don’t plan on letting anyone finish unscathed.
Sign up for Zombie Race!