Double Blind

Lately, I have been doing my training outdoors. Although my schedule has been quite disrupted ever since the baby was born, I have been able to get out a minimum of twice a week.

Yesterday, however, something bad happened for the first time – I tripped while running and fell to the gravel ground quite heavily. The road that I was running on was an uneven gravel surface, and I’m guessing I just tripped on a rock outcropping and lost balance and fell. It all happened very quickly, although I do recall getting in one “stumble” before I then completely lost balance and fell on my right side. As a result, I injured my right elbow and arm, and palm, although my elbow took the most damage. My left palm has a minor scrape. It was all scrapes and blood (a decent amount of blood out of the elbow) and no broken bones, but still, I can’t lean my right elbow against the car armrest because it will get all bloodied up and hurts. The pain is not extreme, but it certainly is present.

This happened during a planned 30 minute run, and I was 14 minutes out when this happened. After assessing myself and brushing off what dirt and pebbles that were caught up in the wound and trying to make sure it doesn’t infect, I had to run back home to get underneath the shower where I could do a more thorough job cleaning up the wound. I wonder what people thought when they saw the line of blood that streaked from my elbow to wrist while I tried to get back home as quickly as possible.

The advice I would have for all joggers is – be really careful on uneven gravel roads! I intend to steer clear from them in the future.

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