Notes
Went for a beautiful Ridge 7 run on a nice, cool, somewhat rainy Friday morning. Vince and I had a really good conversation about the trip the previous day. Everything was chill until the end of the run when Vince and I were waiting to cross the street to go up the hill to Kenyon and a guy in a white pickup truck got pissed at us when he was trying to turn right. I'm not even certain that we were blocking the road that much but he was really. He made some angry gestures as he approached and then stopped the car, rolled down his windows and started yelling at us, saying "You guys are fucking idiots." Vince quickly responded, "You're a fucking idiot mate," in a weird accent. Immediately the guy jumped out of his car and Vince said we need to run and took across the street towards the hill. I hesitated and stated behind the car, so that the car separated me from this crazy guy. The guy seemed focused on Vince and took off after him. At that point I thought it was best to follow them. The guy was yelling as he was running "You fucking idiot, fucking pussy, I'm gonna fucking stab you." The scariest moment for me was when I saw him reach into his pocket to grab something. For a moment I thought it was a gun or a taser, which was quite frightening, but it ended up being a small object that resembled a pocket knife or a box cutter knife (I couldn't see a blade so I'm not totally certain what it was). Once I saw him pull that out I started running faster so that I could help Vince if he got caught, but I didn't think it was going to come to that because this guy was a bit overweight and Vince is a runner. I was still scared and yelled out "Chill Out!" and "Calm down!" Eventually the guy gave up and turned back around, which was meant he was coming face to face with me. I said "just chill man" or something like that, but he didn't even seem to care about me. He walked right past me without making eye contact, and then yelled one final insult at us, something like "You fucking idiots, bitch ass pussys" and Vince actually responded "Ok, Sorry." Vince and I then ran pretty quickly back to the apartment.