Posted on 07/06/2017 8:25:58 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A professional runner from Kenya who was out training on a nature trail in the woods near his home in Maine says he encountered two charging black bears but was able to outrun them during a frantic sprint to a nearby vacant house for cover.
Moninda Marube said when he saw the bears early Wednesday his instincts kicked in and he did what he does best: run.
He told the Sun Journal that the bears were 20 yards (18 meters) away from him and a vacant house was 20 yards away in the opposite direction. So he made a run for the house, with the bears closing to within 10 yards (9 meters) by the time he found safety on the house’s screened porch.
The bears stopped, not realizing they could’ve easily crashed through the flimsy porch screens, Marube said. They sniffed around for a while before wandering away. …
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Sometimes you eat the bear.
Sometimes the bear eats you.
And every so often, the bear chases you up onto a screened-in porch which is lucky because the stupid bear doesn’t know the difference between siding and screens.
Bears didn’t chase him, or he would have been caught and mauled.
He had a 20 yard head start. He had to go 20 and they had to go 40 to catch him.
He’ll probably win The Boston Marathon next year———I don’t even go anymore,Americans haven’t won in years——it’s always Africans these days.
Bears break into cabins all the time when they want in. There are no snowflake pajama bears. They get in when they want to.
This lad learned to run fast due to being chased by lions
in Kenya.
Certainly not at 20 yards (60 feet) from a standing start.
Lions are faster than black bears. Some lions can hit 50 mph.
I believe my Mom told me I had bears on my pajamas when I was little.
Or maybe it was that I was bare and didn’t have pajamas.
Mom drinks a lot.
Come on, don’t be ridiculous as the author of this piece. The bears didn’t chase hin and the hikers did not reach the safety of a f’ing screen porch. They were very lucky the bears didn’t chase and maul them. Running was the worse thing they could have done in this case, but fortunately it worked out for them.
Bears are faster in the quarter mile.
Their gearing is set up for longer drag races.
according to the website - 50ft/sec is within reality for a bear to cover - lets round it down to 15yd/sec - that would be less than a 3 second run (40 yards) for a determined bear (let alone 2)
http://www.bearsmart.com/about-bears/dispelling-myths/
maybe the runner was inspired and coud do 10yd/sec - after all, that only a 100yd dash in 10 sec - anyone can do that!
it’s an AP story - more fake news?
That’s why he out ran a black bear. Anyway you look at it: “He be fast”.
Those Maine bears think they’ll catch a Kenyan runner? He spends his whole life running from lions, mambas, crocs that explode out of the water, Idi Amins cook, hutus with machetes. He’s like a stunt man with Olympic speed and endurance. When he got hungry he had to chase an antelope on foot till it dropped dead from exhaustion.
Those chubby northern berry fed bears were WAY outta their league. I bet they are still discussing “wtf WAS that thing anyway?”
That’s the way humans USED to be bro.
Professional runner? He says?
Hard to believe one can make a living running..Personally I’m just not impressed by someone running. But It looks like it came in handy here. That is, if you believe it even happened.
"...make a living running..."
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