A family-friendly run is sticking to the spooky season while raising funds to support the 2024 Alberta Winter Games in Grande Prairie.
Kinesiology students at Northwestern Polytechnic have planned the Saturday, October 21st event, which will see all proceeds go to support the Alberta Winter Games committee to pay for costs associated with bringing the roughly 2,400 athletes and coaches from across the province to the region to compete in 18 different sports.
Alberta Winter Games Manager Lisa Kerkhof says the unique part about Saturday’s event is that participants can register as runners or zombies.
“The idea is that the Zombies will chase the runner throughout the course, make it a little more fun that way, and you’ll have a flag on. The zombies will try to rip those flags off, so you have to make it across the finish line with the flag intact,” she says. “”We are going to leave registration open as late as we can so you can come and register the day of the run.”
The run will start at 10 a.m. on Saturday at Northwestern Polytechnic and go 2.7 kilometers through Muskoseepi Park.
“There is different rest stops along the way, there are different games along the way, so there is lots of opportunity to rest if you don’t want to run the whole loop.”
Along with the run, prizes will be handed out for the best costumes, and all participants will receive tickets to the NWP Basketball games later that day.
More information, including registration, can be found here.
