A run, a coyote, and a jog strap??

Yesterday, even though it was only about 30 degrees outside, I decided I had had enough of the treadmill and decided just to bundle up and run outside!  I am sooo glad I did because I ended up having a great run!

During IMAZ training I took a break from running in my VFF Bikilas.  But, now that training is over, I've been wearing them on every run alternating them with my Brooks Racer ST5 in order to slowly build up my mileage.  I started with just wearing them for 1/4M, then adding 1/4M more each run.  Now, I'm up to wearing them for 2M.  So, for this run, I wanted to try out my New Balance Minimus trail shoes.

I drove to the Cherry Creek State Park, laced up my trail shoes, and hit the trail for a 1M out and back course.  IT WAS AWESOME!!  I LOVE those shoes!  They are really comfortable and I cannot wait to take them on longer trail runs.

 

Don't my feet look happy?

As a side note, back in my high school days when I ran cross county, this is how I would do my shoe laces to keep them from coming undone.  It works like a charm!  That was WAY before I knew anything about Yankz..ha ha!




Anyways, after my 2M trail run, I laced up  my Brooks and set out for another 2 miles.  This time I decided to run on a paved trail.  About a 1/2M into my run I looked over to my left and saw this:

It stopped me DEAD in my tracks!  Coyotes around here are known for attacking small dogs and even runners, so I was a little scared.  But then, I noticed that it was NOT moving.  I starred and starred at it, but it did not move!  WTF??

So, I looked just a little bit closer and noticed that it had a stick down the middle going into the ground.  WHAT??  I was soooo confused and thought that some high school kids had put it there as a prank.

Here's a close up...can you see the stick in the middle??

I started running again, and I started seeing more and more of these coyote signs!  WHAT was going on?  Then, I saw 3 hockey fields covered in geese.  Were the coyotes a way to keep geese away?  At first, I thought it must have worked because there weren't any geese by the coyote I saw.  Then, as I ran longer, I noticed that there were geese even in areas that had a coyote sign.

So, I have no idea about those coyotes!!











Although this has nothing to do with my run, I thought I'd share one last thing that I thought was hilarious!!  Enjoy!!  I hope you all have a great weekend!