running +cobras=scary

well it happened like this. i was running peacefully along, when suddenly Richard (my friend who i was running with) jumped about crazily and yelled snake! i jumped over this long thick sausage like body, and turned around to see the cobra's head come up , and hiss at us. that was the end of the nice peaceful run, the last 4km were bad.we lost 2 minutes, and missed a best time. oh well.