In trail running there are moments of grandeur and then
there are, well, moments of idiocy. I feel one must keep these in balance to
call themselves a real trail runner.
I’ve decided I’m not going to bore you with “grandeur” in
this post. There is only so much one can take of this stuff. Then it turns cliché. You
know…the running all day under the hot sun while battling pain, fatigue,
dehydration, chafed nipples and whatever other peril crashes down on me. So
awesome, right? No one cares.
Idiocy is more interesting. Most recently I was hiking up a
long hill in thick grass. My head phones were on and I was listening to Loop
Guru radio on Pandora. I don’t know, maybe it was the Far East rhythms that
lulled me into this foolish act. I must have been in a deep yogi moment because
I looked down as my foot was descending upon a coiled rattlesnake.
It was very surreal because I couldn’t hear anything other
than the sound of sitar’s and a deep harmonic rhythm so when I finally realized
what was happening I kind of just stepped back and watched the snake’s tongue
flicker and its body slither.
Why I was hiking in grass with head phones on in the middle
of the day after seeing a snake the day before confirming snake season had
begun I’m not quite sure.
It’s best to keep these things in balance, right?
Idiot.
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