Show us your Ghoulies - Halloween Run Challenge Page #4 (Page 10)

disturbed275 - 2009-10-27 5:43 PM I got in a lovely nine miler tonight.  55 and sunny skies.  Can't argue with that

iowagander - 2009-10-27 7:45 PM

Great run Neal! The midwest can be so great in October, as long as Old Man Winter isn't trying to kick in the door early.

serendipity - 2009-10-27 7:41 PM For the record, I'm not going back and reading all the pages I missed.  I'm just going to pretend I know what's going on.

disturbed275 - 2009-10-27 5:48 PM I probably shouldn't admit this, but the highlight of my run came one of the big hills on my route.  A girl was heading up the hill on her bike.  I passed her while running up

serendipity - 2009-10-27 7:41 PM For the record, I'm not going back and reading all the pages I missed.  I'm just going to pretend I know what's going on.

aspeelma - 2009-10-27 6:14 PM Good evening Ghoulies!!! I have a story for the ages. So go get your favorite beverage, sit down in your favorite chair and enjoy my adventure.

I had planned a semi- easy 4 mile run this evening. This morning it was pouring down rain, it rained most of the day, but by the time I got home it was nothing more than a mist and 54 degrees. I got dressed and realized my jacket that I love to run in was in my husbands truck which was in Gettysburg. I got new arm warmers the other day, I'm thinking it's not raining I can wear them. So I finish getting dressed and head out the door at 4:30.

I'm running along thinking about which way I want to go. There is a side road off of the road that I usually take that I've been thinking about trying. It goes out a little way and hits the highway, but that's ok because I'm only going 4 miles, an out and back. I'm still running along and I get past my halfway point a little bit and decide to turn around and head home. I run farther than halfway because I despise running up the hill I live on so I usually walk it as my cool down. I hadn't headed too far home and 2 BIG Rottweiler's come flying across a yard barking at me in that way that I don't like to hear dogs bark. I want you all to know here that I am a dog person, I love dogs. I have 2 dogs, my friends have dogs, dogs don't scare me, these dogs did. There's a fence along the road so I jump up onto the fence quick near a tree thinking I can climb onto a limb if I have to, my luck it's a tall tree... no low limbs. There is a creek there and the dogs wouldn't cross the creek, but I'm still scared. Since I didn't see them on my way past the first time I'm thinking someone got home from work and let them out. If my dogs had been out barking like these two I'd have gone outside to see what the problem was, no one did that. I had my Garmin  on, for 12 minutes I'm on top of this fence wondering what to do next and the dogs never stopped barking at me. In the mean time it starts to rain.

I finally decide I've had enough of this. I know if I keep going out the road I'll come out at the highway and I can get home from there. I start slowly moving myself back across the fence further and further away from the dogs. I get about 50 yards away from them and climb down from the fence and start walking beside it. I finally get around a tiny bend and I start running, the dogs were still barking but they never came after me. I thought that the road I was on could come out at a gas station and I could just cross the highway and head into town and head home. Today just wasn't my day.

I get to the end of the road and it comes out on the highway but not at the gas station. Across the road is trees. There is a lane there that heads back in the direction I need to go but there is no outlet. The lane was called Long Lane, they weren't kidding, over .75 miles. I get to the end and decide to cross the highway. I can cross, run down along the guard rail and cross someone's yard onto the road that will take me to the road I need to get to to go home. I cross the highway no problem and realize the guard rail is a lot longer than I thought and I wanted to get off the side of the highway. I decide to run through someone's field. Sorry Mr. Field owner about the footprints. Running through a plowed field in the rain and mud is not the best idea if you have other options, I did not. I stayed along the edge, along the woods and finally into his yard. Then I hit the main road. I had already gone past my 4 miles. The rest of the way home is pretty uneventful other than the rain.

5.33 miles later I was home, wet and muddy, but home. It would have been easy to give up and walk, but I ran for my Ghoulies! When I was sitting on the fence, literally, I told myself to HTFU and get myself out of that situation. So that's what I did. My extra 1.33 miles puts me at 49.95 miles of my 50 mile goal. I am 99.9% complete.

Tom - I don't care if you are on top tonight, my legs are tired.

Have a good evening all, I hope you enjoyed my run.

disturbed275 - 2009-10-27 12:05 PM

We were very close to sending out the search parties