It was a beautiful evening, the sky was clear, the stars were shining bright in the night sky and the roads were quiet.
Dressed in my Brooks nightlife gear and headlamp on my head I headed out for a five mile run. After a quarter mile I left our neighborhood and was running along country roads. Everything looks and sounds different at night.
Very quickly I found myself in a near hypnotic state as I was sucked into the bubble of the light in front of me, but just as quickly as I was sucked in I was shaken from my state of hypnosis as the light reflected in the eyes of a raccoon several yards away. I became acutely aware that out there in the dark were a myriad of animals just out of sight. As I ran by a field I paused as a dozen glowing green eyes stared back at me.
Turning into the darkest part of my run I was shocked to see a large black mass near the edge of the road. It turned out to be several black garbage bags filled with leaves but in the dark of night I couldn't be sure from a distance.
It's runs like this that remind me how much fun running can be. I felt like a little kid on a great adventure, it doesn't get much better than this.
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