Hundreds try to escape the undead
Scott Laing and Chelsea Bruggeling were survivors.
Their friend Sarah Meissner, however, didn’t fare so well.
The St. Catharines resident was among the “infected” on Saturday after she was unable to escape the marauding zombies at the Zombie Mud Run at Campark Resorts in Niagara Falls.
“Yes, I’m a victim,” she said with a smile. “But, it was a lot of fun.”
Bruggeling, also from St. Catharines, found the event online and convinced her two buddies to join her on the muddy five kilometre obstacle course at the Lundy’s Lane campground.
“It was super fun,” she said. Laing, from Mississauga, earned a survivor medallion for completing the course unscathed by the horde of the undead.
“It was very tiring,” he said. About 500 people tackled the 21-obstacle course during the fifth annual event.
Similar to flag football, participants each had three flags — called lifelines — which they had to protect from the zombies on the course.
If they finished with at least one lifeline, they received a survivor medal. If there were no lifelines left, they were awarded an ‘infected’ medal.
“People love it,” said Campark Resorts owner Phil Van Kleef.
Funds raised from the event benefited Crohn's and Colitis Canada.
“We look at this as a warm up to our Haunt Manor season and it’s also a chance for us to support a charity,” Van Kleef said.
The hugely popular Haunt Manor attraction takes over the campground later this month.