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Attacked By Skunks

July 16, 2009 (Night)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: Nice and Buggy

Comments:
So there's this wildlife refuge near Lauren's house that we realized had some very good trails on it. The place is named Helen's Island, and it's kind of neat.So we thought a 15-17 min out and then the same back would be a great run. Explore new territory get some hills and get off the freaking road! We, most intellegently, left at dusk to go for a run on the trails. It got real dark real quick. Did I tell you that it is a wildlife refuge? And We saw tons of critters and Deer and everything and ate a few pounds of mosquitoes. Maybe even got west nile virus. On our way back Lauren noticed somthing black on our path. We stopped and stepped closer to check it out thinking it was a cat or something. All of the sudden the large ball of furr split into several clearly marked SKUNKS!!! Not only were there mom and dad skunks but baby skunks. Peppi-le-pew had a blast making babies i guess. Well after we discovered they were skunks, we quickly backed off. However, at that point they atarted chasing us!!! I was so scared I pooped. as I was running backwards away from our car I grabbed stones and threw them at the skunks. I then kicked dirt and stones at them. They stopped their pursuit and ran in the bushes. waiting a few seconds thinking they were scared of humans We then approached cautiously. Lauren's asking "what are we going to do our car is that way and there is swamp all around us except for this one path. So we continued to approach cautiously, and the little buggers made a dash for us again!!! I turned around and smashed into lauren but caught her and we took off once again in the wrong direction since they were on the only path. SEVERAL times this happened. Finially, I decided to sprint by them and if I got sprayed that would just make the story that much better. I picked up two huge handfuls of dirt and stone from the path as did lauren. we threw one and sprinted as fast as we could by them throwing the other dirt at them....


I thought they were gonna get us for sure, or worse they had rabies... I would have had to do the 5k for people suffering from rabies with Michael Scott this year... (THE OFFICE) Anywhom since we were several miles still in the WILDLIFE REFUGE STILL we took off continuing the warcries we started when we bullrushed the skunks. I think that was the fastest we have ever run together! Ya'll shoulda seen us. we were yelling, scuffing our feat and singing praise songs all at the same time, to scare off all of the other animals. Did I mention we have a high coyote, racoon, and other critters that would like to harm us out here, in this wildlife refuge? Whata run. Lauren and I were eaten alive by mosquitoes too.

Overall, Great place to run i think, in the Daytime!