Not in time.

As soon as you turn your back on the creature it shoots something at you!

"Ow!" You yelp in pain as you feel a stinging splatter land on your back. But with the creature now chasing after you your too deep into Flight mode to care. You run as fast as you can and pay no heed to your robe as it disintegrates around you, falling off your body and leaving you naked.

"Ahh!" Another splat lands on your back with much greater ****, the thick, sticky rubbery liquid starts to congeal on your skin immediately as you run.

A few seconds later your running slows somewhat as you feel yourself getting very hot despite the cool air. Your face flushes and your cock hardens.

"Oh fuck, it must have been a magical aphrodisiac," you think.

You can hear the creature behind you, it's legs and tongue flailing wildly as it scrambles to catch you.

Your legs slow done some more, but ahead you can see a gap in the hedges! It's small but your only chance, you can never outrun the creature if you loop back to the path.

There's still twenty meters to go though, and the creature is right behind you.

You slow down some more, every step seems harder and harder to make.

Your heavy breathing has turned into breathless pants and your body feels hotter than ever.

a few meters short of the gap you simply can't go on any longer.