Slept in a little more than I was wanting this morning, arrived at the track @ 8:15AM. School starts @ 8:30AM so traffic was kind of bad. I saw about 25 older gentlemen on the football field, who at first i thought was the football team. I went out and ran a 20 minute warm up and then walked on to the track (~8:37AM). I now notice that it is the local police department doing some PT. "F%C^, looks like I'm not getting lane 1 today" I thought to myself. Then one of the Police officers offers lane 1 to me, and out of generosity I declined (but really appreciated the gesture), and told them I would just run around them it's no biggie!
I start my time trial and it's going well, at about the 600m I notice an on-duty police officer walking onto the track with an aggressive look on her face. I think to myself "ahhh she's probably going to tell me to put a shirt on, or kick me off the track because my shorts are so distasteful". 1 Lap later she is jumping into lane 1 with her hand up saying " Stop!! Just Stop" and she throws a hand out into lane 2, but I run wide and yell " ONE MORE LAP!!! ONE MORE LAP! I'm almost done!!" ( I actually had 2 laps left). She backs off the next lap and then I continue to finish my 2km. I make an effort to go over and apologize and be friendly. I ask her how she's doing and she yells " I'd be a lot better if you would have stopped when I asked you to"- she was not happy.
She explained to me that there was a terroristic (her wording) threat yesterday, and that i can't be on school grounds while school is in session.. (8:50AM).. I agreed and told her I would leave.
I just thought it was weird that non of the other (25) off-duty police officer had a problem with it, and were very entertained by my time trial. But this lady seemed a little power hungry this morning.
All-in-All I understand why I was kicked off and semi-agree with it, I wouldn't consider myself a threat at all being surrounded by 25+ men who out weigh me by 100lbs and are steps a way from being able to arm themselves.
Just a story I thought I would share, really sucks that people have made everyone so paranoid with school shootings and all. But again I understand... but she was gonna have to taze me before I stop in the middle of a time trial ( btw I hit my goal time).