Run for Your Life! (Virtually, that is)

Are you ready to run for your life?

Let’s hope you’ll never find yourself in that predicament, but you can do so in a virtual sense with a clever smartphone app that’s riding the tattered coat tails of the recent zombie craze.

Zombies, Run! 2 is just the distraction you’ll need to turn time on the “dread mill” or your minutes pounding the pavement into a thrill-a-minute game to help pass the time quickly.

Is it sad that it’s come to this — smartphone apps to help get us to exercise? We say “no.” With such a large adult population having grown up in the home video game age, it seems only right that the same digital technology is used to help get those gamers off the couch.

The app entices you with missions in which you rely on survival instincts to retrieve supplies and and rescue fellow humans, all the while avoiding those dreaded flesh-eating walkers.

The game will vary your pace and keep you distracted just enough to get you to your daily goal. Then, perhaps, you can kick off those shoes and grab a healthy snack in time to watch the latest episode of your favorite zombie-themed television show.