2 miles with Miles, AP: Dog fast with a weight attached to the end of the leash.
3 miles without Miles, AP: 9:15
Running Adventures with Stacy and Miles
Miles is a black lab mix. He has a nose like a bloodhound and enough energy to power a small factory. We run on rural roads with ditches on each side and corn and bean fields beyond the ditches. There are birds everywhere and they insist on antagonizing him by flying right over us or running ahead on the road. I keep him on a longer leash when we run so he has a little more freedom. Not always the best idea. :0 I try to see the furry critters before he does so I can reign him in before he is dragging me down the road. Today I spotted 2 deer on the edge of the corn field. Fortunately his nose was glued to some other scent so I was able to spook the deer and get them moving on down the ditch before Miles saw them. However, he smelled them and being curious deer they stopped to check us out. So there I am running, telling Miles NO and STOP and yelling at the deer to move along. I finally got control of the whole situation and Miles and I stopped and watched the deer bound out across the cornfield in the fading sunlight. It was really quite an amazing sight! :) I will save the turtle/racoon incident for another day. ;)
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