Got in the miles, a little slow, but felt ok - better than the other night.
More adventure - Halfway through the first 4-mile loop, there are cars backed up on the main road, and it is pretty dark. As I get closer, I see that in front of the first car in the lineup are two dogs walking down the middle of the lane, and the woman in the car is trying to protect them from getting hurt by trying to herd them over to the side with her vehicle. They are walking kind of slow, and at first I thought they were my dogs that somehow got out and made their way over here, but has I get closer and can see them in the headlights, and can tell that they are old dogs about the same size as mine. The woman yelled out the car window telling me what she was trying to do, so I followed along on the opposite side of the road until I could cross to try to catch them. When I did cross, they shied away and got up on the sidewalk and started walking back the other way but soon went into the road again near the curb. By this time the cars that had been lined up behind the herding woman have driven off, and I'm following the dogs to see if I can get them out of the road. After a few near misses of the dogs by cars and me waving my arms at the cars and the dogs, they finally turn into a church parking lot and cut across the lawn. It is so dark it is hard to see where they are going but at least they are out of the street. The poor things were scared of me but not the cars and looked like they definitely were not used to being out on their own - they stuck right together. The original herding woman drives up from where she had been and is trying to call animal control and the police to find out if someone can come get the dogs but by now they've disappeared into a neighboring yard. So I wished her luck and continued the run. | 