I recently participated in Run For Your Lives, a 5K with zombies and obstacles. The day before the race I went to my hairdresser and got highlights and lowlights- the lowlights being red! Here is a pic of me in my hotel room before the race.
I obviously didn't take my camera onto the mud encrusted obstacle course, but here is a picture of my friends Mary and Kathleen after our shift as zombies. (If you want to see more pictures of what we looked like, you can see them on facebook) We got there at the crack of dawn and waited in a mile long line to be transformed into zombies. I wanted to do my own makeup and prosthetic pieces, but they wouldn't let you. They airbrushed us a little, splattered brown paint on our faces, added some chunks of blood, then we had ice cold blood thrown at us while we stood in front of a tarp. Needless to say, I could have done a better job if I were allowed to make the latex piece that I wanted (which would have had claw marks going through my cheek).
Our obstacle where we were placed was by far the best one. We were in the smoke-filled shock house! Runners had to crawl through the windows of the house which was filled with ropes hanging from the ceiling, which delivered 10,000 volts of electricity if you hit them at the right time. And this is while we were standing inside scaring you and making fun of everyone who was scared of the electric shocks.
Then we ate a quick snack and got ready to go run the race ourselves. This was not a fun time, and I don't want to do it again. I already had a pinched nerve in my back, so I couldn't do any of the obstacles where there was bending. We were completely covered in mud and then had to stand under freezing water in a big mud pit to "clean off". The original plan was to camp there overnight and enjoy the festivities, but with no actual showers or bathrooms...that would have been gross! So we got as clean as we could, changed clothes and went to Denny's or IHOP...I can't remember. Which is where I went to the bathroom and saw all of the paint still caked on my neck...I wonder what the waitress was thinking? We then all proceeded to head home and crash from exhaustion. Here is a pic of my 2 medals for being a zombie and running the race, unused drink ticket, and flag that I took from a runner.
Picture of my ever growing tomato plant!
Forget-me-knots...blooming on one side and dead on the other...
Blooms coming out of the tomato plant.
Here is the video of the whole race! You can see us as zombies inside the shock house around the 18 minute mark!!
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