So, I've never liked to run. I've never liked to exercise. I was the clumsy teen who signed up for "racewalking" as her sport of choice in gym. Yoga is right up my alley but I don't even get off my butt to do that. But, I'm 25 lbs lighter than I was when I got pregnant with my last kid, and I'm able to run after them in sprints, or chase a soccer ball around the back yard. So, I'm not totally sedentary.

But I'm inspired. I want to escape zombies. My husband's band is playing Run for Your Lives (aka the zombie 5k) in MA on May 5th. I had gone with him to the one in the fall that they played as well, and it looked like a lot of fun. So my question is this: how much effort would I have to put in to be able to do this? Could I prepare for it without doing something really regimented like that "couch to 5k" that all my facebook friends have done at some point, ad nauseum?