For whatever reason, today’s run generated more random thoughts than usual. A sampling, in no particular order:
- “There are a lot of energy-drink empties in the ditches these days.”
- “Crows are awfully loud.”
- “This hat sucks for keeping the sweat out of my face.”
- “I wonder if I could tell a coyote paw print from a regular dog paw print.”
- “If a kilometer is 1,000 meters, and a mile is 1,760 yards, and one kilometer is .62 of a mile, how many meters in a mile?”*
- “Fuck that. I’ll never do that math in my head.”
- “I wish I could have a snack right now.”
- “I can actually feel my pulse in my hamstrings. Weird.”
- “Do robins live in flocks? It seems like there are a lot of robins in that field.”
- “I wonder where this road goes.”
- “I wish I were skiing.”
- “Haven’t seen any roadkilled animals yet.”
- “A bright orange leaf! In March?!”
- “My nose is running. It’s fifty degrees, but my nose is running.”
* Google tells me that there are 1,609 meters in a mile, which I should have remembered from running the 1,600 meter “metric mile” in high school track.
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The 1500m is the metric mile. We ran an extra 9 m in track to make a whole mile.
I think the way to tell the difference between coyote prints and dog prints is the distance between them. Coyotes, at least when out in the open where I’m presuming you’re running, tend to move as quickly as possible.
I looked it up after typing that. No mention of my hypothesis but here’s some information which is probably more reliable: http://www.coyotefacts.net/coyote_tracks/coyote_tracks.html