Cow Crossing

I ran 5 miles today after school (because I couldn't get my lazy butt to do it before school) and I felt great! After running 20 miles everything else feels like a piece of cake. Well, I saw the most *amazing* thing that my eyes have ever laid their sights on in all of Lancaster County. No, not a lot of Amish (for some reason the Amish were not out this afternoon during my CV cornfield run, perhaps they were too busy), but there was one Amish man in particular on Horseshoe Rd holding back 30 restless cows from crossing the street. Here I am running fast when ahead of me I see a little Amish boy "herding" a bunch of cows forward and another Amish man holding them with with a wire from crossing the street to where their farm was. There were a lot of cars on the road and they were looking for a good opening to cross. One was quickly approaching, however I was, of course, going to be running right in front of the cows when the opening occured. So I sprinted as fast as I could past the cows. They were restless. The man had to fight to hold them back with his "wire thingy" The only thing holding me back from a cow stampede and becoming a road pancake was this Amish man and his lil wire thingy. I swear those cows were glaring at me. Well, don't you worry cause I made it through. And as soon as I did there was an opening in the road and they released the cows. The man was dancing in the street signaling the cows to run across. Oh, and they did! I ran backwards to watch the whole thing -- totally worth it. It took about a minute for them to cross so cars had to stop. I saw people in their driver's seats laughing. I was laughing too. It was quite a funny sight that I had never seen before, even in all my time in Lancaster County. Just goes to show you get to see the neatest things on these runs that you would never get a chance to see otherwise. Oh thank you marathon training.

-Jilly