Imagine one fine day, you go out to pee and a little wander and you suddenly find yourself competing in a half-marathon. Well, you might think that you are still in your dreams. But Ludivine managed to do just that.
Ludivine, a two-and-a-half-year-old bloodhound, is fond of wandering through the streets of the town.
April Hamlin from Elkmont, Alabama, let her dog Ludivine out of the house to pee and the next thing she knew, her pet hound had come seventh in the county’s inaugural Trackless Train Trek Half Marathon.
The pup had managed to sneak out of the back garden and made her way to the starting line of the race. She then marched ahead to run the entire 13.1-mile course, crossing the finish line in seventh place, with an impressive time of 1:32.56.
April only found out about her hound’s exploits when race volunteers started texting her pictures of the pup wearing a medal.
“My first reaction was that I was embarrassed and worried that she had possibly gotten in the way of the other runners,” she told Runner’s World.
Jim Clemens, who finished the race in fourth place, said the pup was prone to distraction as she would run off to romp through streams and into yards to sniff around for a while.
But Jim also said that pup was determined to finish the race.
“Every time I thought she had dropped off to go back home, I would hear her coming back up to me, and she would race past me up to the two leaders,” Jim added.
Her master April is still in shock as according to her Ludivine is actually very lazy. Well if laziness can make you complete a half-marathon, it surely can make you do many other things with elan.
Cheers to Ludivine for her success!
