Fall Down Go Boom
>> Saturday, April 21, 2018
It's late April for the love of Pete. We shouldn't have to still be worried about this crap. But because of all the snow we got last weekend, I slipped and went down hard on a run early Wednesday morning. I ran another 4 miles like this:
My right knee when I got home. My left knee was a little scrapped up too.
Knuckles on my right hand. I went down so quick that I didn't even have time
to open my hands as I was carrying my mittens, so I landed on my knuckles.
Once I got my knee all cleaned up.
Coming down the "ramp" from the Franklin Ave Bridge on the west side of the
Mississippi, then getting ready to run on the trail south along the river.
The trail along the river was in GREAT shape, but no one cleared the trail DOWN to the river.
So I ran down the road to the river. Notice the sharp little jaunt around the unplowed
pedestrian crossing "triangle." That circle is where my legs slid out to the left.
The arrow shows where I fell, running about 6:00 pace. I literally SHOT back up and kept going.
No pausing my Garmin here - it registered me slowing to 8:00 pace and then speeding back up.
I wrapped up my knee and went about my day. A few hours later at the gym, I stretched my legs out a bit:
There you can see the smaller scrapes on my left knee.
And I chose the red mat kinda for the same reason Deadpool has a red suit.
This was actually 48+ hours post-fall. The worst bruise on the less scraped knee.
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