May 25, Saturday
So, here is the story of my long fall. Looking for an aerobic day today I went to Turkey Swamp Park to run on the dirt roads. I had the brilliant idea when I arrived to try one of the wooded Trails instead of the dirt road. As I should have expected the trail was covered with the roots of the forest. About a half-mile into the trail my back foot clipped the root and sent me into the Staggering long fall. I struggled for balance for about seven strides before I hit the ground. That 7 strives is like a slow-motion eternity. Just enough time for flashes of a similar fall two years ago that left me with two broken ribs. Fortunately my hands took most of the brunt of the fall, but my left hip also hit pretty hard. I got up shakily and walked out of the woods back to the road. My hip is bruised and battered a little, but I think I avoided the worst possible outcomes.
Back on the road, which is flat and very safe, I began my patented SS / walk workout. I covered about three and a half miles running an SS for 1 minute followed by walking for 1 minute. Maybe it was because I was feeling angry or feeling lucky or both, but I really was pounding the speed segments along the way. I wound up doing 17 x 1 minute SS in the process of three and a half miles. My Garmin says that the pace for many of the SS was under 7:00 which is he kind of speed I am shooting for in this workout. The total distance moving for the day was 5 miles ( including the fall 🙂 ), in motion for 71 minutes. I feel like I managed to salvage what could’ve been a disaster of a day.