As many of you know, I've given up the rest of the 2005 triathlon season and am focusing on run training due to a shoulder injury that prevents me from swimming as well as riding in the aero bars. I don't need great shoulders to run however, so I'm [posing as] a runner now.
Today I went out for an easy loop and on my way home, two cars passed - so I had to move way over to the side of the road. This particular road has a ~4cm drop from the ashphalt to the 1 foot wide drainage section beside the curb, and as moved over I rolled my ankle and went down pretty hard.
I looked up and saw a big truck tyre a lot closer to my head than I normally like, and quickly rolled up over the curb and onto the grass. Somehow as I was rolling around in pain, I managed to stop the clock on my watch. ;-)
I was pleasantly surprised to see that both cars had stopped and that the drivers were coming over to see if I was okay. One even wanted to watch me walk around for a bit, to "prove" that I was in good enough condition to get home on my own (I was only about 1km from home). I got up, found that I could put weight on the ankle, and thanked them for stopping. Then I limped the rest of the way home, popped 1200mg of Advil, and put an ice pack on it.
So.... Lucky or not?
Unlucky: I got injured
Lucky: I could very easily have been run over by a truck, and the injury isn't terribly bad. Yes, I'm still limping around - but I can walk on it.
I think that I got off lucky. Sure it would be far better to not be injured, but at least I'm able to post here about it. :)
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Today I went out for an easy loop and on my way home, two cars passed - so I had to move way over to the side of the road. This particular road has a ~4cm drop from the ashphalt to the 1 foot wide drainage section beside the curb, and as moved over I rolled my ankle and went down pretty hard.
I looked up and saw a big truck tyre a lot closer to my head than I normally like, and quickly rolled up over the curb and onto the grass. Somehow as I was rolling around in pain, I managed to stop the clock on my watch. ;-)
I was pleasantly surprised to see that both cars had stopped and that the drivers were coming over to see if I was okay. One even wanted to watch me walk around for a bit, to "prove" that I was in good enough condition to get home on my own (I was only about 1km from home). I got up, found that I could put weight on the ankle, and thanked them for stopping. Then I limped the rest of the way home, popped 1200mg of Advil, and put an ice pack on it.
So.... Lucky or not?
Unlucky: I got injured
Lucky: I could very easily have been run over by a truck, and the injury isn't terribly bad. Yes, I'm still limping around - but I can walk on it.
I think that I got off lucky. Sure it would be far better to not be injured, but at least I'm able to post here about it. :)
<If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough>
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