A couple of weeks ago, early on a Friday morning I was taking out the trash. One of my cats- Ruby- loves to try to get out every time the front door opens and sometimes when I'm just runing out for the mail or to take out the trash, I let he "escape." Of course I grab her and bring her back inside after her 2 minutes of fun. On this particular morning I did not let Ruby out. As I dropped the garbage bag at the edge of the road I glanced down the road and saw a dog. Like I always do, I said something to the dog, just a simple "hi puppy" and turned to head back in the house. The dog barked at me. "Oh, the dog likes me" I remember thinking and then watched as the dog ran towards me. Just as the dog started running I caught a rabbit out of the corner of my eye as he ran around the corner of my house. Now it started to become obvious, the dog was going after the rabbit, not saying "hi" to me. Then, as the dog ran past me to go get the rabbit, I noticed- the dog was not a dog at all, but a fox. Suddenly my mind went to Ruby- did I let Ruby out? Did she sneak out without me noticing? Was that Ruby and not a rabbit that I saw out of the corner of my eye? When I got back in the house I immediately searched for Ruby and found her. All was right in my world and in fact I just witnessed a little nature, right there in front of my house.
Last night my workout called for "strides." I've explained these before, but in case you have forgotten- it's a running drill- a 20 second burst, turn around, hop 30 times on one foot, hop 30 times on the other foot and then walk back to the start line and do it all over again. I live pretty close the the Pheasant Branch Nature Conservancy in Middleton (the words "Nature Conservancy" in the title should have clued me in to what was to come), so I often run there. I decided to do the strides in the nature concervancy and it was going well, until I saw the fox. He crossed my path, just about 10 feet from where I end each of those 20 second bursts. He was not aggressive in the least, in fact, he made no move toward me at all, but all I could think of was the fox taking off after the rabbit on that Friday morning. Would the fox sense that I'm injured (seeing me hopping down the path) and think "Mmmm, lunch?" I never saw the fox again, but he was in my head. I did another set of 5 strides, looking over my shoulder constantly every time I was hopping back to the start line. I started my last set of 5 strides and decided it wasn't worth it, so I finnished the workout off by running and hopping home again.
So, the workout looked like this...
2 sets of 5 really good strides
1 set of 5 really hesitent strides- constantly looking over my shoulder and wondering if I was about to become lunch for the fox and his family.
1 set of 5 strides, running for 20 seconds down the sidewalk toward my house followed by hopping 30 times on each foot down the sidewalk and repeating until I got home again.
I'm guessing the neighbors and the folks driving down Century Avenue had a pretty good laugh last night.
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