I hope you had some good wine & chocolate.

On a lighter note, I have a funny unleashed/uncontained dog story:
I was warming up before my last road race when I heard/saw a huge, droopy basset hound running across his front yard towards me @ full speed. As he approached the road, he jumped the small ditch between the yard/road... only to land with both front feet on his ears. At the speed he was traveling, this resulted in a massive face-plant into the landing side of the ditch. He made a loud THUMP... I have no idea if he kept chasing, because at that point I was laughing so hard that I almost fell over.

That is the only time I've ever felt sorry for a chasing dog. Poor thing didn't know what hit him!