Hello! How was your weekend? Did you run the Chicago Half Marathon? Run a race? Go on a trip??? I had a nice trip… in that I fell.
Yep. Your local Monican fell Saturday morning just one mile into her run. Boo.
I don’t know how it happened – there wasn’t anything super obvious on the sidewalk that I tripped on. After I fell I immediately popped by up and kept running to avoid extra embarrassment from anyone that might have seen me go down.
After a few yards I stopped to walk and assess how hurt I was. I decided to do a quick Instagram Live to share what just happened. It was nice feel like I could tell someone (you guys!) and share my pain for a second. I actually didn’t really look at my knee until I pointed my phone at it on the video.
Since it was just seconds after the fall, my knee didn’t look that bad at first. Once I realized it was just surface wounds to my knee (and a huge injury to my ego)… I decided to keep going.
It definitely hurt, but not enough to change my stride (that would be super bad because it could cause another kind of injury from bad form or overuse ). It took a few minutes for me to realize my other knee was scraped up too and started to sting. I stopped to take a picture for blog purposes. After this it started to bleed more and my sweat made the blood drip down my shin – so it looked dramatic. One guy walked by me at the end of my run and said, “Oh! Are you okay? That looks bad!! You okay?”
Ha! I kinda thought it was funny because it was his gut reaction.
I ended up cutting my run a little short and doing 12 miles. I took more walking breaks than usual. It was hot, I kept stopping to change up the podcasts I was listening to…
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Overall, I’m just glad I’m not seriously hurt and I can cross one of my annual falls off the list. Boom.
Post-run I took a shower and then googled “How to survive falling during a run”
I didn’t find any solid articles on this topic in peer reviewed medical journals so I started a research study of my own…
Healthy lifestyle impact on running blogger post-fall – does watermelon speed up recovery?
This study follows one runner who fell July 2017 on a 12 mile run. Subject is a female red-head of Spanish decent who has run for 8+ years and falls an average of 2 times a year. Subject
Objective: Justify blogger’s consumption of an entire watermelon after a trip which resulted in a skinned knee.
Data collection: Watermelon via Costco in Orange County, CA.
Conclusion: Yes. Runner confirmed she felt significantly better after eating watermelon.
Study Limitations: Subject also consumed fried rice and chocolate chip cookies. This may have had a positive impact on recovery and morale.
Further research into above mentioned watermelon and chocolate chip cookies must be done before any official conclusions are noted.
Oh no! Have you tried lavender oil on it? No lie, it works!
I feel your pain! I did exactly the same thing on Sat. morning. I was out for a 10 miler and ended up wiping out on one downhill sections. I have a skinned knee, hand, shoulder, nose, eyebrow and ego:(. This is the first (and hopefully the last) time I’ve fallen. No watermelon for me though.
Love your humor in this (and that watermelon looks delish!). Glad you’re not seriously injured! I fell for the first time in years running like 3 weeks ago, in a similar fashion… zero objects for me to trip over, just my lazy foot diving into the pavement head-on (which thankfully only ended in a bruised palm and a little bit of my ego as well). I love that 12 miles is cutting your run “short” — you’re a rockstar/such a runspiration.
I can’t believe you still managed to run 12 miles after falling?!?! That is seriously hardcore. Glad you’re okay, even if it was a little embarrassing.
I maybe fall once or twice a year – usually during the winter months when it’s icy! Or if I decide not to lift my feet enough and trip over an uneven part of the sidewalk. Or a root running on the trails.
Hope your knee heals up quick!
Glad you’re ok! I hate it when I fall. I feel embarrassed even when no one is around!
Hi Monica, you may wanna use some rosehip oil or Vit E oil for the scars (as in speed up the healing process and smothering the scars) once the scars have dried up.
Oh…I ran a small local run organised by a local school to raise funds for charity this past weekend.
I can’t say I’ve ever taken a fall like that on a run, but now I’m hearing it happen a lot and it makes me a littler nervous cause I just know my time is comin, and it’ll probably be embarrassing
Funny to you should post this… I fell running this morning twisting my ankle pretty badly :/ probably going to have to take it easy on running for the week which sucks since I’ve got a mountain race coming up. First time I’ve fallen since April when I fell REALLY bad and did a number on my knee just like yours. Here’s hoping yours doesn’t scar as badly
Dude, I fall down while running statistically two times each year.
I haven’t fallen down yet this year. *le gulp*
Hope the watermelon speeds up the healing process!<3
still no running:( #injuredrunner) but I rode my bike 10 miles and swam a bit and also went to yoga.
And I had a delicious steak burrito at my favorite local restaurant. And had the leftovers for breakfast the next day 🙂
Hope your knee heals quick.