Dog Joins Half Marathon, Finishes 7th

[Mosby]

Early Saturday morning, Ludivine, a 2½-year-old hound dog, was let out of the house in Elkmont, Alabama, to do her business. Prone to roaming around town at will, Ludivine snuck out of the backyard and made her way to the starting area of the inaugural Trackless Train Trek Half Marathon about a quarter mile away.

Ludivine proceeded to mingle with the runners, run the entire 13.1-mile course, cross the finish line in an unofficial 1:32:56, and have a medal draped over her floppy brown ears—all without her owner, April Hamlin, realizing she had wandered off in the first place. The incident was first reported in Canadian Running Magazine.

http://www.runnersworld.com/running-with-dogs/hound-bandits-half-marathon-in-alabama

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/Elkmont-Alabama-Half-Marathon-Dog-Ludivine-Hound-Race-366448331.html

[OnyxCollie]

1. LOL!

[OnyxCollie]

2. 13.1 miles in an hour and a half is pretty fast.

She definitely deserves a trophy for that. (Can't stop laughing at that picture!)

[Phentex]

3. I love that it got a medal!

How funny

[NaturalHigh]

4. Look how nonchalant she is about it.

I love this dog!

[Mosby]

6. I thought it was odd that she ran the entire race

Since her owner described her as really lazy, but when I read that she often cruised around town it made a lot more sense. She is obviously in good shape, I think she did what bloodhounds do, she locked into the scent of the one guy in the story who she saw at the beginning of the race and then followed it on and off (when she wasn't checking out dead rabbits and messing with the cows) until the end.

She is quite a character.

[shenmue]

5. ZOMG squeeeeeeeee