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Saturday, October 10th, 2026
1600 S College St, Mountain Home AR
5K
56–76°F · low rain risk
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2025
54–75°F
dry
2024
50–79°F
dry
2023
49–75°F
dry
2022
52–80°F
dry
2021
68–84°F
dry
2020
61–80°F
dry
2019
61–82°F
rain
2018
55–76°F
rain
2017
53–76°F
dry
2016
57–75°F
dry
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Race-day forecast · Saturday, Oct 10
Cloudy · 61–83°F
Saturday, Oct 10starts near 61°F · 5% chance of rain · wind up to 14 mph
About this race
Prepare yourself to run (or walk) for your lives! This will be a charity 5k with all proceeds going to Lucky Dawg Rescue Inc. This will be taking place on Saturday, October 10th. There will be a 2.5/5K Jog With Your Dawg fun run at 8:30 am, the Zombie 5 k Run at 9:30 am, a Pet Fair Adoption Event with local shelters starting at 10 am, an Inflatable costume fun race at 10:30 am, Tricycle Race at 11 am, Costume Contest for dog and dog/human duo costume contest at 12 pm. Music throughout the events!
There will be zombies! Zombies, you say? Zombie zones and safe zones along the trail. Oh yes, ZOMBIES!
Unfortunately, for the safety of racers and dogs, we will not allow dogs in the Zombie race event.
If you decide to bring your animal for watching, they must be leashed at all times and not on the race route during the race.
BASIC SURVIVAL
Before the race, you will be given flags just like the overly intimidating game of flag football. These flags represent your health.
The zombies want to take your flags and maybe eat your brains.
If you lose all your health flags, you will be considered infected!
If you finish with a flag, you will be awarded with the survivor prize.
*NOTE* If you form and run with a TEAM, and if any member of that team survives with a flag, the 1st ENTIRE team to finish with a flag receives the "Survivor" medal! The perfect reason to recruit your friends! Teams must consist of no more/less than 4 members.
NOTE There will be medals for 1st-3rd for the individual that crosses the finish line with any flags left. There will also be a set of 1st place medals for the first team (4 members) that cross the finish line with someone in the team still having a flag!
WHAT YOU’RE UP AGAINST
There will be zombies. Their job is to chase you and eat you — but mainly go after your health, in the form of your flag belt. Avoid the zombies to keep your health flags.
Use speed, strategy and your intact brains to make it to the FINISH LINE “alive” with at least ONE FLAG INTACT. If you finish with zero health flags, this means the zombies have successfully transformed you into the “undead”. There will be a start line, and a finish line, and the opportunity to avoid Zombies in between.
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