Still looks like a Blacksnake to me... comes in two varieties here in Bama... The Racer which will run like heck from ya, this thing boogies. The other is the Black Rat Snake, it tends to remain motionless especially when in a tree or something (I always have seen them around fence posts in the woods)...
As a youth, mom was sunbathing in the backyard on a quilt. I heard her scream, the whole north side of town heard her scream. One of those black racers ran over her and boogied away as fast as he could. Shook her up almost as bad as that lizard I lost in her car I captured somewhere in Texas that attacked her little toe while she was driving to work a few weeks after I lost it. I got beat pretty bad over that one.
After I got close to him and poked at him he started to take off
and he wasn't going much quicker than walking speed.
Like Eaker said, I run like a gorilla and never would have caught a high-octane racing snake.