creepy 5 mile run

OK so for the first time I was creeped out on my run this morning. I guess because not only was pitch black out, but everything just looked.. well, creepy. No sign of the sun off in the horizon at all this morning.. Alright, I can deal with that..the street lights usually help with that anyway. Well a street light was out on the only street in the neighborhood where they are still finishing up building two houses. The houses are on the left and an empty, small field is on the right. Someone decided to store a huge backhoe in the empty field and a couple of tractors on the other side of the street. In the dark w/ no lights at all it just looked creepy... And I remembered the drunk homeless guy who stumbled out of a house under construction last summer as I was running by.. nice..

I turned the corner and in the middle of the street running straight toward me was a good size deer!! And given that he was running toward me and just a few feet away, he was way too close for comfort.. I stopped, he veered off and ran into someone's backyard and disappeared and I regained my composure and took off running again... Beautiful deer in the daylight slightly off in the distance is great... in the dark running toward you? Not so much!

Next as I was crossing north cotton hill to go into the other subdivision, a guy out of nowhere came up and started running right behind me.. I caught him out of the corner of my eye just as he turning off of nch as a I was crossing over.. it was still dark and I couldn't tell if he was the guy I always see out running, or what. This guy had a reflective vest on and the usual guy doesn't.. I speed up a little and made the first left I could and watched behind me.. he kept going straight. good! About this time I could hear Kevin in my head: " I keep telling you not to run in the dark!!"

Finally the sun was up a little to lighten things up a bit and the rest of the run was fine except for the hawk that swooped down over me, within a few feet of my head, to catch something.. no big deal I suppose, but given the run so far, it was fitting.

Got the 5 miles done and was quite relieved to be back home after a creepy run like that!