trotted

verb

1. To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.“I didn't want to miss my bus, so I trotted the last few hundred yards to the stop.”
2. (of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
3. To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.