Don't get me wrong, it was still there...everywhere. But the sections I could run were a little longer and more abundant. :-)
My car was the only one in the parking lot....and I was the only one on the trail. It was dark, windy, and spooky as h*ll.
I got a new headlamp this weekend...and it's awesome. I could actually see quite a ways in front of me AND the trail immediately in front of me without moving my head up and down. Score!
On my way back from the turnaround point, I could hear a squeaking. It was off in the distance, but it was there none the less. I stopped running and slowed to a walk.....and the noise went away.
I started running again.
A few minutes later....
I stopped dead in my tracks.
Injured rabbit?? Maybe one of my shoes is squeaky? Monsters in the dark coming to get me?
I turned around...the noise was definitely behind me.
All I could see was the path winding into the distance through the wooded area I'd just come out of.
Yep...definitely monsters coming to get me!
Act cool.
RUN!!!!!
I didn't hear the noise for quite a while.....but when it came again, it was right behind me.
I turned around (still running) and there it was. A dude...on a bike...without a light...and a wheel that needed some WD40.
"On your left!"
OK, so I wasn't completely alone on the trail after all. I'm not sure how that guy could see where he was going, but there were places where the downhill was on a curve, covered in ice. Recipe for bike disaster, if you ask me. :-)
Lake Zorinsky, 3.02 miles, 12:11 overall average pace (after you factor in the ice, the dark, and stopping to look for the monsters that were after me)
(giggle)
:-)
6 comments:
I would have peed in my pants after hearing that noise and not see it at first. I'm such a chicken!
I'm impressed with your running in such darkness. I do run early in the morning but stay in my village where there are street lights.
@ Fran - I've been running in the dark since I started running. Even in our neighborhood there aren't many street lamps at all.....but this was the first time I'd run around this lake, by myself, in the am. Spooky!!! :-)
Well, what can be said about this monster thing......I actually run with my side-arm when I run in relatively new places; esp in the dark.
Does your headlamp have a red light option?
@ Krystal - Rabbits are the worst. Little s*ckers lie in wait along the trail until you get nearly on top of them, THEN they run. Scares the bejeezus out of me every time. :-)
@ C2Iowa - I was just talking to hubby the other day about getting myself a lighter weight carry gun. My current one is fine with normal clothes, but not so much to run with.
Yep, it has a solid red and a flashing red function. It works really well, but not so much when trying to locate black ice. :-)
Oh my gosh, I am such a scaredy cat of *everything*... I would have passed out from fear!! It looks pretty scary even without the squeaking noises!!
My friend and I had a couple of bats swoop at us last summer when we were running on a trail at dusk. Scared us half-to-death!! (However, it did cause us to pick up our pace and get out of there... apparently we're motivated by fear lol.)
@ Faith Ann - running outside in the dark in the morning is getting easier and easier. The more I do it, the less the rabbits, cats and all other spooky sounding things affect me. Thank goodness! :-)
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