NOBODY RUNS — The 90-Day Urban Family Preparedness Program
A complete 14-document training program, plus a customer README and a sources list, for a household of four to five in a flat, rowhouse or small lot — built around the slowest member, not the fittest. Print-ready PDFs, checklists, assessments and a household record.
Same ZIP either way. Pay on the channel you prefer; after payment you land on our download page.
Free: The 72-Hour No-Utilities Drill
A two-page printable checklist for the first 72 hours with no power and no running water — the fridge and freezer clock, the water you already have in the house, and the one temperature reading that decides whether food is still safe.
It is built to the same sourced standard as the $39 program, with every figure checked against FDA, Ready.gov and NWS. Download it, print it, and see how the program thinks before you decide anything.
PDF · 2 pages · 218 KB · free forever
Also free: One-Room Blackout Drill
A two-page printable for one dark room and one hour — lighting placement, safe movement, one outside check-in, and a post-drill checklist. Built for apartments and rowhouses; companion to the 72-hour drill.
HTML printable · 2 pages · free forever · no signup
Before anything else, what this is not.
This program does not cover weapons use, weapons handling, or weapons construction. It covers home security, deterrence, door and visitor protocol, neighborhood mutual aid, and knowing your local law — the parts that a family in an apartment can actually use and that we can source honestly.
Written for households in the United States. Local law, local agencies and local services are US ones; nothing here has been adapted for another country.
It is not medical, legal or tactical advice. It is not an accredited qualification. The certificate in Document 13 is a self-assessed household record — a dated page your own household fills in and keeps. It is not a credential, it certifies nothing to anyone outside your front door, and buying this is not "getting certified."
How long it actually takes. The full program is about 82 hours across twelve weeks. There is a core path of about 59 hours — roughly five hours a week — that still reaches Stage 2 by the end of the ninety days. Those are the real numbers, measured from the chapters, and they are printed before you pay rather than discovered afterwards.
The honest ninety days: store → harvest → treat → ration by activity. You build a store you can actually fit in your home, you learn to harvest water and heat you already have access to, you learn to treat what you harvest, and you ration by what the household is doing that day. We do not promise a 900-gallon water store, because it does not fit in an apartment and we are not going to pretend it does.
Most preparedness material is written for a fit adult who can lift forty pounds and leave on foot. That describes almost nobody's actual household. Your household is only as mobile as its slowest member — and if that member is elderly, very young, or cannot carry weight or walk far, a plan built for a runner is not a plan, it is a list of things you cannot do.
NOBODY RUNS is a twelve-week training program written the other way round. It starts from the household you have, in the home you have, and builds up through a staged curriculum with a threat model, a decision tree, assessments with answer keys, printable forms, and a competency passport that records what your household has actually practised.
It is a study guide and a training program — not a gear catalogue. Where a number could not be verified against a current standard, the chapter says so and tells you who to call instead of printing a figure that might be wrong.
What's inside — 16 documents (14 numbered chapters, a customer README and a sources list)
- 00 — Start Here. The program's shape, the twelve-week timeline, and the day 1 → 90 sequence.
- 01 — Threat Model and Decision. How to decide what your household is actually planning for, and the three-branch decision tree that every later chapter hangs off.
- 02 — Water. Store, harvest, treat, ration by activity — including what a real apartment can and cannot hold.
- 03 — Food. A working food plan for a household that cannot rely on bulk buying or a chest freezer.
- 04 — Heat, Shelter, Sanitation and Clothing. Warmth without power, sanitation without running water, and clothing for the slowest member first.
- 05 — First Aid. What to recognise, when to call, and an explicit line where physical skills require a course and a manikin.
- 06 — Medicine When the Pharmacy Is Shut. Prescription continuity, what to ask a pharmacist, and what not to improvise.
- 07 — Security and Community. Doors, visitors, deterrence, neighbourhood mutual aid and knowing your local law — no weapons content.
- 08 — Slow Movers and Bug-Out. Movement planning for a household that cannot move fast or far.
- 09 — Training Matrix and Curriculum. Thirty-nine modules across six tiers (0–5) with per-module hours, prerequisites and a pass standard.
- 10 — Forms and Checklists. Printable inventory, rota, drill and visitor forms.
- 11 — Sourcing, Budget and Fuel. Where to buy, in what order, at what cost — and a chapter that deliberately prints no fuel quantity and explains why.
- 12 — Assessments and Answer Keys. Written assessments for each stage, with keys.
- 13 — Competency Passport and Certificate. The household record of what has been practised, signed and dated at home.
- Plus CUSTOMER README (start here — load, refund and errata) and SOURCES (the sources behind the chapters).
What the buyer gets
One ZIP download containing:
- All 16 documents as print-ready A4 PDFs — 175 pages, vector text that is selectable and searchable, no header/footer clutter, ready to print or read on a screen.
- The same 16 documents as plain Markdown, if you want to edit a form or keep notes in your own tools.
- A large-print variant of every document — same text, larger type and wider line spacing (333 pages), for a household member who needs it.
- The Customer README as the first thing you see, so the load, the refund policy and what the program refuses to cover are in front of you before you start.
No app, no subscription, no login. Files you keep, print and reuse.
Honest notes
- Figures are sourced or absent. Where a standard is paywalled or a figure is edition-dependent, the chapter says so and routes you to the authority instead of inventing a number. Document 11 lists every figure it refuses to print.
- Physical skills are not taught by a PDF. Choking, CPR, the infant method, extinguisher use on a live fire — the program tells you what to recognise and when to call, and says plainly that the hands-on part needs a course and a manikin.
- No testimonials, no statistics we cannot source, no countdowns. The price is the price.
Refunds and errata
30 days, no interrogation. If it is not what you expected, ask through the channel you bought it on — the refund link on your Gumroad receipt, or a reply to your receipt email — within 30 days of purchase, and you will get your money back.
Version 1.0 · Errata date 2026-11-02. Corrections are recorded and dated, and a corrected version is sent free to every previous buyer at the address the purchase came from.
Support: reply to your receipt email, or use the contact link on the product page you bought from. A reply reaches us with your order attached — no account, no login, no form.
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