welcome to the wild wild west!

I have found this trail close to spences school and after i drop him off at school i'll run down the canal its a nice paved trail in the middle of town surrounded by houses on each side. but we're in the desert now and i've been nervous anyway because i keep getting lost as i try to find new running routes. ( anyone who runs and then moves to a new area knows what i mean, there is no such thing as footprinters here.) anyways so i take my mase and my phone with me every morning just in case of days like this one...about 7min into my run i looked up and there he was, one lonely mean lookin', girl eatin' coyote! i was only about 25ft away and i was worried cause i didn't know if i could out run him (no brown exageration there) so i stopped in my tracks and wished i had kevin's gun to shoot it. but i didn't and no one has told me what to do when you come upon a coyote so i yelled and luckily it took off, but then i thought he went to get his friends i'm gonna be chicken liver soon. but i got my cool and kept running. i'm still freaked out about it though. i tried really hard to upload a picture of a coyote but couldn't figure out how, but as i was reading, it said that coyotes can run up to 45mph and love reddish blonde haired girls from utah!!! i feel lucky to have made it out alive and with all my limbs. anyways something interesting to share now that were here in the desert. ill let ya know when i have another experience with the wild, my worst fear is that a snake will chased me. can you say heart attach. the moral of the story is always run with a bell on your belt...or is that hike dr. glenn.