PROFESSIONAL RUNNER OUTRUNS TWO BEARS

A professional runner from Kenya who was out training on a nature trail in the woods near his home in Maine outran two charging black bears. Moninda Marube said when he saw the bears early Wednesday he initially engaged in a stare-down with them, but the bears charged the moment he turned his back on them. Marube did what he does best: run. The bears were 20 yards away from him and a vacant house was 20 yards away in the opposite direction. So he made a dash for the house, with the bears closing to within 10 yards by the time he found safety on the house’s screened porch. The bears stopped, not realizing they could’ve easily crashed through the porch screens, Marube said. They sniffed around for a while before wandering away.
* Now THAT is how you train to be a professional runner.
* Wrong place, wrong time – right pair of legs.
* Better a professional runner than an amateur dinner.
* I thought bears loved fast food?
* Next competition he’s in – when they blow the whistle to start – show him a picture of a bear.