“I had to think very fast…” - Kenyan athlete after outpacing two big bears

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While training in the thick woods of Maine, Auburn, a professional Kenyan athlete (runner) has claimed that he had to outrun two big bears to save his life.

Marube Moninda, who was off for an early morning run, ran into two black bears immediately after passing a vacant house close to the Auburn Lake.

Recounting his almost life-ending ordeal, Moninde told the Guardian that he had to think very fast once he saw the bears.

After a stare-down with the bears which lasted for seconds, he ran as fast as he could avoiding the idea of climbing any nearby tree because bears can climb trees better than humans.

Running back towards the vacant house screaming for his life, he got inside a screened porch with the bears around 10 yards adrift. Seeing that they couldn’t get to him inside the porch, they wandered off, disinterested.

Marube was the winner of the 2013 Maine Half-Marathon and also crossed the line third at the 2012 Maine Marathon.

“Just make peace with people. You never know when your day comes,” was Marube’s message after his brush with the jaws of death.