Comments | trichellee: Attack of the killer horse flies

trichellee

Attack of the killer horse flies

Jul 29, 2007 21:03

This was my first weekend of NYC Marathon training. Saturday I had a 2 hour run that my coach said to do on the green belt. I love the green belt. SusanF and I got 39 minutes into the run when all of a sudden we were surrounded by a swarm of horse flies (appox 30 of them). They were very aggressive and they were biting us. Susan slowly pulled back ( Read more... )

nycmarathon

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builderben July 30 2007, 02:33:47 UTC

Oh Ouch! Those little (big) bastards have jaws! I can remember getting chunks of flesh removed from my back by them when I was somewhere around the age of 10.

trichellee July 30 2007, 03:03:56 UTC

Yes, it felt like that took some chunks of flesh out! Now it's just itchy!

cruisergirl July 30 2007, 03:53:13 UTC

I'm not sure which is more scary- the flies or the snack crossing. Wait, I'd like to find a snack crossing- where was it again?

trichellee July 30 2007, 13:06:48 UTC

hee hee, I meant snake ;-)

rdad July 30 2007, 04:01:36 UTC

Watch out for that snack crossing! Especially those trans-fats snacks!

(couldn't resist, sorry)

tee-hee! ginsnap July 30 2007, 04:24:31 UTC

I wish I could avoid those pesky snacks! I'd be 20 lbs lighter if they would just stopped crossing in front of me.

Re: tee-hee! mizmizuno July 30 2007, 07:15:17 UTC

*snort*

I didn't get what a snack crossing was til you two made comments about it.

I was thinking "hmmm... must be some local green belt term."

Re: tee-hee! trichellee July 30 2007, 17:28:59 UTC

Hee hee.. you all are very funny ;-)

beware of snacks on the greenbelt... aaarrrghhhh!!!! :)

Eep effendi July 31 2007, 19:47:11 UTC

Horese flies are mean!