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I’m lucky in that I haven’t been seriously injured while running. Sprains and strains here and there and the occasional battle with Plantar Fasciitis or Runner’s Knee, but for the most part, I’m in pretty decent shape.
That said, here’s a current list of tweaks and twinges annoying me:
- Scraped right knee
- Scraped left shin
- Giant bruise on left quad (I have no idea)
- Hyperextended right thumb (also clueless on this one)
- Massive bug bite on right quad
- Fading sunburn on backs of shoulders (because I can’t properly apply my own sunscreen, apparently)
So not too bad, but if you look at me in shorts and a t-shirt, I look a mess. And you know what? I’m pretty proud of it. It was a big debate as to whether I was going to wear a skirt for today’s meetings or pants to hide my legs. (Ultimately, I decided on pants, not to hide the injuries, but rather because shaving around all the scrapes is annoying and I’m too vain to go out with hairy legs… at least to work. I couldn’t care less about how I look for tonight’s swim practice.)
Admittedly, most of these injuries are because I’m just kind of clumsy, but it’s still kind of fun to look like a weekend warrior who went out and got messy and fell down and had a great time.
But I really should figure out some of these unexplained injuries. Maybe someone is beating me up in my sleep.
An unexplained hyperextended thumb? Maybe you tripped and fell giving someone the thumbs up :). It happens …
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I had forgotten about that!
I’m pretty sure I did it either falling off my bike or hoisting a giant grocery bag onto my shoulder. Or both.
Unexplained injuries? It’s the cats.
And I agree on the bad-assery of injuries. I sort of wish I could sport a black eye just for a few days so that it looks like I got into a street fight.
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When I was training for my first tri season, I fell off my bike (not even a crash, just still and…fell over) and ended up with a lovely bruise on my inner thigh. Also had a smattering of them on the back of my calves from whacking the bike pedals.
I couldn’t figure out why my doc was quizzing me on domestic violence and safety when I saw her a week later. It finally hit me she was concerned about the bruises – I explained and she asked that I please not fall off my bike anymore.
I’m stupidly sedentary now and I still have random bruises from where I run into stuff and I couldn’t tell you where most of it is from – it’s not even that I bruise easily, I am just always knocking into things, so I can’t even narrow any of them down!
That is too funny! I’m the same way – I run into things all the time.