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another nighttime run

June 5, 2008 (Night)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: dark but humid 72

Comments:
I ran up the ginormous Pennsylvania-sized hill to the park, which is technically closed after dark but there is a big hole in the fence, so I went through that. And then I ran a mile around the track, which is square. Two sides of the square border these woods, which are basically the only woods in the immediate vicinity due to all of the housing development that's been happening recently. And so all of the local animals go to these woods to live. And so, as I'm running past, I'm thinking "lions and tigers and bears, oh my" and speeding up a little as I ran on that half of the track. On my last lap, I heard this really loud crashing noise... some animal running out of the woods towards me. Or that's what it sounded like. So I seriously sprinted my last lap. And then, on my way back home, I see a deer coming out of the woods. I think it was me that scared the deer, and not the other way around. That's what I'm telling myself anyways... I might not be going for anymore nighttime runs anytime soon... at least, not around that track!