Attention: Vengeful Deer Crossing!
June 15, 2007 | Tags: animals • deer-crossing • kandi-hanson • revenge
Many runners encounter animals during their daily runs. Usually, it’s a neighborhood dog, or cat, rabbits, skunks, or possibly a few ducks. Runners have told tales about being chased by angry geese in local parks. Adventurous trail runners have reported seeing mountain lions, snakes, turtles and other members of the wild life community.
For the most part, animals will quickly depart upon the approach of a runner. Unless, of course, you are Kandi Hanson and you are running in a 10K in Minnesota. In that case, the animals are motivated by revenge.
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You’ve gotta watch out for those deer. A similar thing happened to my wife when we were bike riding in South Carolina.
http://chicagourbantribe.blogs.....olina.html
At least she took home some hardware.
Rotten deer.
Matt Tillinghast in the Freescale Marathon in 2006 was tackled by a deer when it tried to bandit the race.
The same thing happened to me just last week. I think the deer have organized…
Di, thanks for remembering my encounter with the geese…I still get nervous on that route. Can’t imagine having a deer charge at me though!!
A deer took out a runner last July at the Rileys Rumble Half-Marathon in Poolesville, MD. We ran by a guy down, out of it, attended by medical personnel and thought the worst–heat prostration. Nope, Deer Crossing, trampled him, and he was in the hospital 3 days with a concussion.
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