I personally can’t imagine anyone surviving long-term around running zombies. Even if fighting them was relatively easy, it’s statistically inevitable that sooner or later you’d get bitten. This applies to walking zombies too, but at least with them, you have the option to avoid physical altercations altogether, at least for the most part. That’s what I think most TV shows get wrong about zombies: even if there’s just one, and you could easily take it down, just don’t. It’s almost never worth the risk. In my view, the best way to survive is to avoid them as much as possible. Fighting is the last resort and should only be done in self-defence.
I don’t now about running but I agree with the non-fighting part. If I postulate than Zombie are dumb creatures that slowly rotten, I want to avoid them as much as I can until they are too rotten to move. It doesn’t mean that I can build defense and even traps but I should not confronte them but I will let the zombie population almost rot out of existence, hoping the disease doesn’t pass from the rotting bodies to the environnement.