I was part of a stampede on my commute this morning!

Just after dawn I was going down a small country road at about 18 mph. As I rounded a bend I saw 3 horses that had gotten loose. They were standing in the road, eating weeds along the side. They startled when they saw me coming and they started to run down the road. I moved over and just coasted but still caught up to them. The four of us were stampeding down the road together. I could look over and watch their flanks work as they ran. I felt like a cowboy riding in the stampede like in all those old western movies.

When the woods ended, the horses cut into a field but still kept running along side the road with me paralleling them. They ran for a couple hundred yards then just stopped, and I kept going. Before I went around the next bend I looked back and the horses were back on the road again.

What a way to start the work day!