Story
I’m in Blacksburg, Virginia this week for a library conference and had some time between the last session of the day and dinner yesterday, so thought I’d find the Virginia Tech track for a Sweet 1600 effort. It was a lovely evening and the track was only about a mile from my hotel. I stopped to take a picture for the forum before starting my mile - here is the Johnson-Miller track:
As I was about to head down the grassy slope, I heard hoofsteps.
A heifer trotted down the hill and set off for the trees in the far distance. The other runner on the track stopped and we exchanged ‘WTF’ shrugs, but were soon joined by three police officers, a truck from the Vet Hospital and a golf cart with a dart-gun wielding marksman - the plucky bovine had escaped mid-hospital appointment!
Long story short, I was then locked in the track complex for 45 minutes whilst the heifer eluded all efforts to dart her:
At one point, they ran out of darts (such a speedy cow!) so I snuck out when the vet team went to get more supplies.
I managed to get back there this morning before breakfast to actually get my mile in, and was slightly disappointed to find the heifer gone:
However, she had left her mark on the track…
