A new smartphone application called Zombies Run is a hit, only two weeks after its initial release people have already downloaded the app almost 100,000 times.

You tie your shoes, put on your headphones, take your first steps outside. You’ve barely covered 100 yards when you hear them. They must be close. You can hear every guttural breath, every rattling groan – they’re everywhere. Zombies. There’s only one thing you can do: Run! You are “Runner 5″ and hundreds of lives are counting on you!

While you run the application narrates a tale of a zombie laden environment in which you are running. You must evade the zombies and collect supplies for the surviving humans at the base camp. The longer you run the more supplies you collect. The application records your distance, time and supplies you collect.

Writer Naomi Alderman had the idea while in a class for beginning runners. When the class was asked why they wanted to run one of the students said “to outrun the zombie horde,” I guess Alderman took the quip more seriously than the rest of the class.

Here is a video on Zombies Run

Here is a link to the Zombies Run website should you choose to accept this mission.