Monday 1/31: dog adventures

At first the run started off as any typical run: we were indecisive about where to go, so we decided to go towards Babson, because we did NOT want to run up weston rd. again. We got there, and finished our 22 minutes of warm up at the merge between the Babson and Olin campuses. Thus, we decided to do our fartlek around there. We did 16 sets of 30/30 fartleks. The roads were spectacular, there were no cars and they were all clear! This run was becoming better and better! Then we continued our cool down for a bit on rt. 135, then back behind BSC and back through babson and out to forest. We were making record time, when suddenly, something was blocking our path...it was a big dog without an owner. It seemed suspicious. At first, we tried to go around it, but it kept following us and jumping up. So Sarah looked at the name tag, it's name was Manny, or Danny, or Sammy, whatever you prefer, but it was about 30 houses away from its home address. So Brennan and I ran to its home to tell the owner that their dog was missing while Sarah tried to get it to follow. When we rang the bell, the lady was like "oh yeah, I was just going to go looking for him..." So then we went back to Sarah and Manny, who would not budge. Then suddenly when Brennan and I got there, he began to run in the direction of his house. Sick. We brought him basically home then finally his owner came to get him. Thanks to Manny, our superb run turned into a cold one as we came back to the high school, but we did save a dogs life today.