I have been running on the Des Plaines Rive Trail lately. I didn't know this before we moved in, but it picks up right next to my house! I run over to Rockland Rd (as a warm up), then I stop and stretch. Then I continue my run a short while down Rockland to go over to the trail.
This past weekend, I ran up to the Old School Forest Preserve and it was so cool! I probably would have had a better run (physically) if I didn't stop to take all these awesome pictures of the landscape, but I had a better run (aesthetically) when I stopped to take all these awesome pictures of the landscape. You know?
Anyway, tonight I decided to go the opposite way on the path. I ran through boglike forest (which was super cool), down along the river, and even got to see a train go by! On my run back along the trail, I was running with my head down and something caught the corner of my eye so I looked up really quick.
Good thing I did! There was a deer right in the middle of my path and I would have seriously ran straight into it! I stopped DEAD IN MY TRACKS (and hurt my leg in the process! ouch) like a dear in headlights (hahaha). It looked at me and froze, and I looked at it and froze and I kept thinking "Do deer attack people? I mean anything that feels threatened will attack right? oh shit should I run away? Will it chase me?" and by the time I was done thinking all of these thoughts, the deer walked slowly into the forest and I sat down in the middle of the path to let me heart slow down. I seriously thought I was going to have a heart attack.
Then I realized that it was getting dark and I was in the middle of a foresty-bog probably surrounded by deer and I got freaked out and ran to a neighborhood so that Tommy could come and pick me up!
Needless to say, it was an interesting run!
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