Posted on 08/17/2022 8:43:44 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Dean Karnazes said the coyote pounced and knocked him off his feet just as he reached Mile 37 in the Marin Headlands.
Karnazes, 59, recorded an Instagram video at 3 a.m. Saturday moments after the attack.
“I’m at a 150 mile trail run and I got attacked by a coyote. That was a first. It knocked me over,” Karnazes says in the video with blood still on his face. “Thankfully I’m running with poles and I whacked it and it ran away...”
Karnazes was running alone with a headlamp to see through the darkness. Ultra marathon athletes run day and night for races to finish with the fastest possible time.
Karnazes is a well-respected endurance runner within the ultra marathon sports community. He ran 50 marathons in all 50 US states within 50 consecutive days, as well as won the Badwater ultra marathon and 4 Deserts Challenge.
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Tastes like chicken
The coyote must have been desperate. Ultra-marathoners are nothing but skin and bones.
Must have been on a Keto diet....................
Looks like chicken. Dog types love to chase moving things, even better if it looks like food.
Looking to add some bone broth to his diet.
He’d better get the rabies shots.............
Predators stand their ground. Prey turns and runs. He identified as Prey.
Well, he is a road runner.
What did he expect?
I follow Dean on Facebook and watched this video. His lip, nose, and chin were torn up pretty good, so he did a heck of a face plant
Hmmm. San Fransicko, marathon runner, carries poles for protection. Left wing nut job comes to mind. If he cared anything at all for wildlife, he would’ve let the coyote have at him.
Which cartel employs that coyote and why was he so far north? He must have been smuggling some high value individuals.
This is why you shouldn’t feed the animals.
Makes it dangerous for others
In Texas, we say .... So What!
Nope. 26.2 miles and up requires substantial muscle. Lean, wiry muscle. What the ultra-guys lack is FAT.
No. The poles are for stability, a faster pace, and balance especially on difficult terrain, not protection.
I have always carried hiking staves or walking sticks on the trail from childhood, leading to a 20 year argument with my father. Who just happens to have a Ph.D. in kinesiology (the study of human motion), with sports physiology as his primary focus. He conceded my points about the utility of poles in marshy terrain and when on steep descents, but said the bottom line is it was dead weight otherwise.
Finally one day in my 20’s I was working at Ford Motor Company and I got an email from him. It contained an abstract of a study some people in his field had done in which it was found that hikers with walking sticks could maintain a 7% faster pace and reported lower reported levels of exertion, despite higher overall metabolic activity. The explanation was that work was being distributed more evenly throughout the body since the arms could help propel the hikers forward. At the bottom my father simply wrote “I concede.” :-)
That said, as a former trail runner (though not an ultra-marathoner), I would agree with you.
It is San Francisco. Sometimes a coyote and a homeless guy can look alike...especially in the dark. And in this economy both are hungry.
wy69
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