Easy running again. 3rd day of easy in a row, because tomorrow I'm going to attempt 26.2 Kilometers at marathon pace on my marathon course. Tomorrow's run will probably be pretty telling on whether I'm in over my head at 6:06 pace or not. Today I had a feeling that I should not run through the gulley into skunk canyon but run around a a few hundred meters and come up the sidewalk. Interestingly as soon as I came up the sidewalk for coyotes were coming out of the gulley where I would have run through. I stopped and watch them for a few minutes as they did their thing running around the hill side back and forth. Then I ran up the hill and came across 4 deer who didn't want to get out of the path on enchanted mesa. So I walked right up to them as they stared at me wide eyed. Finally they walked off as I motioned for them to move on so I could keep running. One of them could barely move as its back leg was clearly hurt and it limped its way across the meadow. Pre-dawn running lately never seems to fail on the wildlife sightings. | 