5 Mile Run with a Tight Rope Walker
After the nice long run I had in Delaware park earlier in the week, I decided to try driving to the park again and doing my entire planned 5 mile run there again. Unfortunately, when I arrived the park was packed with visitors and I couldn’t find a parking spot to fit my truck into. There were so many people there that instead of parking parallel to and on the side of the road, cars were parked perpendicular across the one lane of the loop running the park’s perimeter (it’s a double wide road, but cars are only allowed in one direction). Some googling after I finished confirmed my suspicions it was the Buffalo Zoo’s annual Wines in the Wild event (the zoo is located in one corner of the park).
Disappointed I couldn’t run the entire run in the park, I headed home and began my run from there. I ran a regular route of mine to, around and back from the park. After having seeing a turkey and juggler on stilts during previous runs, I’ve come to expect to see things out of the ordinary, but was still surprised that this week I ran past a tight rope walker in the park! He’d strung a rope of some type from two trees in the park and was traversing back and forth between them. I can only wonder what I’ll see next…