One Year Ago

One Week Ago

Just over a year ago my grade nine classmates and I ran for our lives in the ‘Zombie Run.’ We pushed our selves mentally and physically for weeks beforehand to prepare for the adrenaline-inducing 5k race and ended with only two survivors; the rest of us were ‘infected’ by the realistic zombies. It was the last 100 meters when we finally split up – we couldn’t exactly stay together in a thick mud pit with an electric finish (literally.)

Just eight days ago a couple friends and I participating in another unique 5k: the ColorVibe. Unlike the Zombie Run, we only knew about the race twelve hours beforehand, and without similar intense training, we woke up and ran. The spontaneity was one of the aspects making the race a blast. The final 100 meters of this race it wasn’t adrenaline or electric shocks that…