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How long could you run for if zombies were chasing you?

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AbsentmindedWoman · 13/04/2019 19:25

Reckon after 12 minutes I'd be done Grin and after vomming, I'd have to resign myself to a gory fate.

Supposedly there's adrenaline and survival instinct etc but am cynical. Genuinely feel like I'm going to die after a certain point when running. Even as a child, I was slooowww (however, could still keep ahead of most zombies, apart from the especially speedy types possibly) although I did have great stamina back then.

How about you? Do you think you'd find a burst of speed and endurance and could keep going like a machine, or would you be a goner?

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AuntieStella · 13/04/2019 20:15

Probably for about 2-2.5 hours (based on half marathon time rounded up a bit)

If I needed to be fast, probably only about 30 mins.

But I hope I'd not be the slowest in my vicinity, so I can then go in to escape/evasion mode (rather than just running away) whilst they dispatch someone else

Hedgehogblues · 13/04/2019 20:17

Not at all, my legs don't really work very well. My electric wheelchair is a bit of a tank though, I could maybe run some over?

evilharpy · 13/04/2019 20:20

Athena I’ve just restarted and am up to S1 E3. I used it years ago for treadmill runs to help with the boredom (I think there were only a couple of seasons then) and am using it now outside for when I’m on my own and have nobody to chat to. I love it.

Redcrayons · 13/04/2019 20:20

The furthest I’ve run is half marathon in 2 hours and I could probably go another 30 minutes under the circumstances.

However I’d need an hours notice to have my porridge, banana, couple pints of water, last minute wee and poo and charge up my running watch (if it’s not on strava...)
Zombies don’t go fast do they?

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 13/04/2019 20:30

If I was to suddenly find myself in amongst The Walking Dead , I think I'd just run into the crowd of zombies shrieking "Kill Me , Kill Me Now"

Survival and trying to keep going seems futile (especially after how many , 10 seasons of tedious shite? I'd have thrown myself into the zombie mass on episode one ! )

Karigan195 · 13/04/2019 20:33

@Hedgehogblues there is a great zombie book series called surviving the evacuation in which one of the main characters/survivors is in a wheelchair :)

Glitteryfrog · 13/04/2019 20:40

Not long actual running, but I think I'd be ok at climbing out of the way and I could jump in a river and swim away.

Fromage · 13/04/2019 20:43

Can zombies swim?

If not, I only have to run through the park to the river with a lilo, and a tray to paddle with.

Karigan195 · 13/04/2019 20:44

Sorry they walk through the water and just come up the other side....

SmarmyMrMime · 13/04/2019 20:46

I am runner #5. I have survived over 6 series of Zombies Run! over the past 5 years evading shamblers and Z types, experiments, betrayals and conspiracies. Finding a good haul of Curly Whirrlies or Angel Delight along the way helps Wink

I can do a HM in just under 2:15 and a sub 30 5k so my odds are pretty good. I tend to run cross country too so am used to roughing it.

I highly reccommend the app for brightening up long runs.

NicoAndTheNiners · 13/04/2019 20:47

I'm currently watching Black Summer the new Netflix zombie thing and those zombies are fast, they'd catch me in 10 seconds!

TreadingThePrimrosePath · 13/04/2019 20:49

No running, I have a machete.

sar302 · 13/04/2019 20:50

I can't run, else my organs will properly fall out of my vagina - I'd have to decide between Zombiehood with an intact vagina, or possible escape, but with my bladder trailing on the floor being me 🤔

SingaSong12 · 13/04/2019 20:53

I wouldn’t bother, I’d just surrender.

Confuzzlediddled · 13/04/2019 20:57

My mobility scooter goes at 4mph - how fast do zombies move, exactly?

motortroll · 13/04/2019 20:58

I'd like to say 5 hours but in all honestly I've not run for months due to injury so maybe 1-2 hours but I'd probably die of unfitness and I'd be so slow the zombies might get me anyway!

LaurieFairyCake · 13/04/2019 20:59

3 minutes

But I'd just walk up a flight of stairs with a big knife or climb a tree

TheInvestigator · 13/04/2019 21:02

According the one of those silly personality tests, I wouldn't run! I'd be killed trying to show off in a fight with a zombie.

WitchyBollox · 13/04/2019 22:15

Fast? Then maybe 10 mins, slow and steady maybe 2 hours
Guessing I am doomed then Grin

Mammyloveswine · 13/04/2019 22:17

I would die very very quickly... i optimistically downloaded "couchto5k" app... my husband asked me how far i could run now, 2 weeks in. I had to admit i was still at "couch" Blush

AuntieStella · 13/04/2019 23:55

Ditch the C25K then, and go instead for the app mentioned earlier in the thread:

zombiesrungame.com

MyElbowIsItchy · 13/04/2019 23:58

I’d give up at the start..sure I’d be reincarnated as a zombie so why run?

FangsTasticBeast · 14/04/2019 00:00

I’m watching black summer, those zombies are fast!

Singay · 14/04/2019 00:06

I've more stamina than speed. I expect I'd run, hide, plot, plan and hide up a tree and then run back the opposite direction lol.

PickAChew · 14/04/2019 00:08

About 23 seconds. Every joint in my body is knackered.