Running 13.1 miles can be hard, no matter how good your training has been, so imagine being overtaken by a dog, who just turned up on the day and decided to run.



On this day two years ago, runners were lining up on the start line of the Elkmont Trackless Train Half Marathon in Canada, when Ludivine, the two-and-a-half year old Bloodhound, crawled under her garden fence, ran towards the start and decided to join in the race.

Despite no training, or real warmup, Ludivine impressively kept up with the leaders of the race, finishing seventh even after taking two detours to sniff a dead rabbit and investigate a nearby herd of cows.

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Ludivine crossed the line in just over an hour and a half, and was rightly awarded a finishers medal.

Owner April Hamlin, 41, told Runner’s World, “All I did was open the door, and she ran the race on her own accord. My first reaction was that I was embarrassed and worried that she had possibly gotten in the way of the other runners. She’s laid back and friendly, so I can’t believe she ran the whole half marathon because she’s actually really lazy.”

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Other runners pointed out Ludivine’s strange technique - dropping back to sniff around and run through streams, then running back to the race leaders for some speedy running.

Two years on, we're still giving Ludivine kudos for her brilliant run.

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