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Womble
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This morning, putting on my sports bra, I managed to whack my left elbow against the nearby doorpost. Oh my fluffy elbow I shouted (or something like that). After a few minutes managed to forget about it. However, an hour or so later in the gym, realised I couldn't possibly do any exercise that involved holding a weight and bending my elbow. Also can't prop my head up at my desk because can't lean on my elbow.
Hopefully it won't affect my running, but now I know how dangerous sports bras really can be.
Hopefully it won't affect my running, but now I know how dangerous sports bras really can be.
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It didnt and I caught it with my mouth. On the plus side I did meet several interesting people in Norwich casualty that Friday night including a bloke who said he was in the paras and a women who was looking for something she'd lost but couldnt remember what
Vacuum cleaning - I decided to move the cylinder Hoover to the other side of the room by just giving a yank on the hose, so it would fly through the air past me. Unfortunately it collided with my kneee on the way. The consequent physiotherapy, MRI scans, trips to podiatrists etc cost me most of a year of training and a lot more money than re-carpeting the house would have done.
I recovered in time for the 2001 FLM. Three days before, the washing machine jammed with all my race kit in it. While pulling the machine out to drain it, I pulled the muscles in my back.
Not content with a sensible injury, I managed to get a vertical bannister rail jammed between two of my toes, ripping them apart and necessitating 6 stitches from the bottom of my foot, between my toes and all way onto the top of my foot.
Quote from the A&E doctor "that's a bit unusual isn't it?"
(apologies for degree of goriness there. it was ridiculous.)
While sitting at the bottom trying not to cry, my husband came up and said " I told you that would happen if you leave washing on the stairs". Have since ditched nighty for sensible PJ's.
Yeh - ha ha!
Womble,
As regards the elbow. It gets better but - sorry to say - you will knock it and bump it and the slightest tap, usually on the door post, will drive you nuts!
When I came to rest, I was lying on the ground covered in cuts, my trousers and top were badly torn and quite blood spattered and to top it all I noticed that I'd landed about 4 feet away from a 6 foot long Viper. Fortunately the snake just slithered off.
I lost the bees though !
Amazingly, considering I'd fallen about 100 feet, I wasn't badly injured but I was left with torn ligaments in my wrist and ankle which meant I couldn't run for about 2 years after.
That has to be a made up story.
It is just too humorous to be anything else.
*chuckle*
fell of mountain bike and cut under chin - stitched it myself in mirror .....p*ssed
numerous other scars from lacerations and abrasions aquired when....p*ssed
Previously popped it out after trying to impress the ladies half way up a mountain in Canada snowboarding,second day of holiday doh!
Mate of mine a few years ago decided he was going ski down Helvellyn towards Red Tarn. He put a couple of nice turns in then lost it and cartwheeled head-feet-head-feet somewhere in the region of 500 feet down towards the Tarn. He suffered a slightly sprained ankle. His only concern was that on of his skis got stuck up the mountain, so he climbed up to get it.
it got a bit sore later - and eventually hurt enough for me to mention to the physio who was sorting out my back - she couldnt find anyhing but it left me with hip and groin problems for ages!
moral of the story - dont dance around naked!
should have been bhf.org.uk
I once forgot to take a set of handouts to a lesson and sprinted back to the office to fetch them. This involved going down two flights of stairs, and I turned my ankle over. I had to wheel myself around in a chair for the next week. Odd thing was it was the night of the England Germany game in Euro 96, and my class thought I was just putting it on so that I could watch the footy, as I missed half an hour of the lesson!