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Due to a failure on my part to go to bed at a reasonable hour either night this weekend I slept in this morning till after 7:30. I considered skipping a morning run and just going in to work, but then realized that since we have no appointments this evening I would be free to work as long as I wanted, and, given that my legs were a little sore/cramping and I know that the run always makes them stop hurting, I decided to do a short run first.
On the homeward stretch (about 1.67 km of the 2.4 km route) I manged to fall, possibly because I had tried leaping over a puddle (it has been raining pretty much daily for quite a while now). Maybe I didn't land quite right after the leap, or perhaps it was just the slippery ground? Anyway, I think that I need to do some practice falling--I know, in theory, that one should roll with a fall, and I clearly managed to do it, because I hit first with my hands and knees, but then rolled onto my shoulder and back before getting back up. However, I think that when the roll is done properly it should hurt less in the hands and knees.
The right side took the burnt of it--the heel of my right hand is sore, and my right knee got banged fairly hard. When first I got back up I started walking, but the knee, while a little sore, didn't hurt as much as my hand, so I tried jogging a bit, then alternated between slow jogging and walking the rest of the way home.
Oddly enough, I have a record of that bit. When I left the house my phone wasn't getting a GPS signal, but I told RunKeeper it could start tracking the activity anyway, and at five minute intervals it announced for me how long I had been running, and the fact that I had run 0.0 km with an average pace of 0 minutes per km. But after fall the next announcement let me know that I had actually made some distance--I think that the shaking in the fall caused something to reset, and it started actually tracking where I was from that point. Indeed, checking it, the map it recorded starts right where I think I was when I fell. Therefore I have done a manual entry for the first part, where I was really running (average pace 7 min 11 sec per km), and for the second part where I alternated between walking and running (average pace 9 min 20 seconds per km) and added a note recording the fall.
Once home I first iced the knee for a little bit, then peeled off the clothes (which clearly show where I rolled--wet ground is good at leaving records) and discovered that the knee, which hurts less than the hand, was damaged enough to bleed (note that there is no visible damage to the hand, since the bruise doesn't show yet). So I hopped into the shower, washed it twice with soap and hot water, and when I got out looked closely at it. A couple of minor holes where the topmost layer of skin was removed by the rocks it must have bumped. There was a tiny something dark in the center of one of them, so I washed the tweezers with soap and water and carefully picked it out, then put on one of those newfangled band-aids--the kind you leave on for days and it absorbs the fluids and creates a soft cushion over the wound which doesn't dry up like a scab would.
Then I put more ice on it while I ate my breakfast and emailed a colleague to ask her to write "arbetar hemma" (working at home) on the note plate outside my office. Now I have connected my VPN connection and have full access to my work computer from here. Therefore, now that I have recorded the incident in case I ever need to know "when was that?", I will settle in and see how much work I can accomplish today...
On the homeward stretch (about 1.67 km of the 2.4 km route) I manged to fall, possibly because I had tried leaping over a puddle (it has been raining pretty much daily for quite a while now). Maybe I didn't land quite right after the leap, or perhaps it was just the slippery ground? Anyway, I think that I need to do some practice falling--I know, in theory, that one should roll with a fall, and I clearly managed to do it, because I hit first with my hands and knees, but then rolled onto my shoulder and back before getting back up. However, I think that when the roll is done properly it should hurt less in the hands and knees.
The right side took the burnt of it--the heel of my right hand is sore, and my right knee got banged fairly hard. When first I got back up I started walking, but the knee, while a little sore, didn't hurt as much as my hand, so I tried jogging a bit, then alternated between slow jogging and walking the rest of the way home.
Oddly enough, I have a record of that bit. When I left the house my phone wasn't getting a GPS signal, but I told RunKeeper it could start tracking the activity anyway, and at five minute intervals it announced for me how long I had been running, and the fact that I had run 0.0 km with an average pace of 0 minutes per km. But after fall the next announcement let me know that I had actually made some distance--I think that the shaking in the fall caused something to reset, and it started actually tracking where I was from that point. Indeed, checking it, the map it recorded starts right where I think I was when I fell. Therefore I have done a manual entry for the first part, where I was really running (average pace 7 min 11 sec per km), and for the second part where I alternated between walking and running (average pace 9 min 20 seconds per km) and added a note recording the fall.
Once home I first iced the knee for a little bit, then peeled off the clothes (which clearly show where I rolled--wet ground is good at leaving records) and discovered that the knee, which hurts less than the hand, was damaged enough to bleed (note that there is no visible damage to the hand, since the bruise doesn't show yet). So I hopped into the shower, washed it twice with soap and hot water, and when I got out looked closely at it. A couple of minor holes where the topmost layer of skin was removed by the rocks it must have bumped. There was a tiny something dark in the center of one of them, so I washed the tweezers with soap and water and carefully picked it out, then put on one of those newfangled band-aids--the kind you leave on for days and it absorbs the fluids and creates a soft cushion over the wound which doesn't dry up like a scab would.
Then I put more ice on it while I ate my breakfast and emailed a colleague to ask her to write "arbetar hemma" (working at home) on the note plate outside my office. Now I have connected my VPN connection and have full access to my work computer from here. Therefore, now that I have recorded the incident in case I ever need to know "when was that?", I will settle in and see how much work I can accomplish today...
