A trip, and a fall..... but my own shoe laces?

After a week of driving a lot of miles and spending time with family I was able to get back out for a more normal run this morning. I did run a couple times while with the family but not nearly what I usually do or hoped to do. That is not good considering I needed to start marathon training this week. The running was only part of it, the other part was eating differently than I would normally eat at home, especially the quantities.

This mornings run was not a good 6 mile run. I started off good running from the high school after dropping off my daughter for her Cross Country practice, but then things changed quickly after just 1/2 mile when I tripped over my own shoe laces (yes, my own shoe laces..... and they were tied!) The first time I caught myself and looked down to see my shoe laces tied, but maybe a bit longer loops. I didn't think much about it and continued on when I tripped the second time. The second time I went down on my hands and one knee. My knee took the brunt of it and is now missing a bit of skin and caused a limp for a few seconds.

I continued on and did the 6 miles but had a couple times where I wasn't feeling good and walked a little bit (mile 3 & 5) I did choose a road I had never run before and I didn't realize how hilly it was. That coupled with the 13 hours of driving yesterday and the poor choices in eating over the last week I am not at all surprised.

A funny thing about the trip......

Just Wednesday night we were playing a game at my brothers house. I don't remember the name of the game but they chose me and then pulled a card. The statement read that if I would die a strange death how would I die. There were 6 choices, but one of them was that I would die tripping over my own shoe laces (it was the answer I chose, as well as at least a couple others). I thought of that immediatly when getting up off the ground. I have never tripped over my own shoe laces while running, much less while they were tied! I guess I better go clean this wound. I didn't die falling, but if I died from an infection it would still technically qualify.

Tim Wilson - blog.262quest.com - subscribe - follow - virtual4now

16 comments:

  1. All I say, Tim, is "Hmmmmm"

    I am glad you are OK!!!

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  2. That is just weeeeeirrrrd! Strange way to die, on the toilet - strange and hideous. You don't want to be found on the toilet!

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  3. that is a strange 'connection'! and also pretty weird to trip over tied laces. however, i have tripped over nothing before, so i can see how that's possible :)

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  4. its always the weird stuff that gets ya

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  5. I've tripped over my own shoes laces a couple of times, usually running with other people at a slower pace, but finally decided to do something about the ridiculously long shoe laces running shoe companies are using these days.

    http://www.seriousrunning.com/blog/running/running-shoe-laces-does-longer-mean-better/

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  6. i can sooooo relate. i love that you can fall, have some fun about it by sharing it and keep on trucking.

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  14. Ooh shoot i just wrote a big comment and as soon as i hit reply it came up blank! Please tell me it worked correct? I dont want to submit it again if i don' t have to! Possibly the weblog glitced out or i am an idiot, the second option doesnt surprise me lol. thanks for a great blog!Terrific function! This is the kind of information that ought to be shared close to the web. Shame on the search engines for not positioning this post higher!

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  15. That is just weeeeeirrrrd! Strange way to die, on the toilet - strange and hideous. You don't want to be found on the toilet!

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  16. untie your shoes in your room walk around a bit see what happens

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