Evening run - not quite dark. Podrunner's Native Sun mix playing. Humid as heck. I just had one very interesting running partner this evening. My neighborhood is on the outskirts of town so we have lots of forest land just outside my neighborhood. This brings a lot of wildlife out onto our streets early in the morning and at dark. I see the normal animals when I run: dogs, cats, occasionally I see possum, raccoon, or an armadillo. Tonight for nearly a mile I was accompanied by a bat. Seriously a bat! It was flying up and down the street above my head. Often it would dive down right in front of me into a pack of bugs just before I went through them. I can't say I've had a running partner do that for me before! It must be the fluff of it's fur as it looked like a rolly polly furry thing with thin and delicate wings that didn't seem like they should have been able to support it. This was such an amazing run! |