Responses to postings in no particular order:

1. Nobody has ever mistaken me for graceful, furthermore, nobody has
even mistaken you for graceful either. "did that guy just fall" phhhtt
2. Why would anyone be up a ladder with a chainsaw without having a
safety line attached to the tree?
3. Initial injury was falling off of a skim board, second came about
falling down my steps while moving a sofa, and it would seem I tried
to come back too fast, too soon, and with too much (weight).


--- In GetActiveSouthGeorgia@yahoogroups.com, "Mark Steele"
<aeronca@...> wrote:
>
> Being of a younger generation, obviously you never quite learned the
concept
> of stop, drop, and roll. If you did, you would know how to crash with
> continuous motion so that the spectators would be left wondering,
"did that
> guy fall, or is he just very graceful?"
>
>
>
> _____
>
> From: GetActiveSouthGeorgia@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:GetActiveSouthGeorgia@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
runningmasked
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 10:32 PM
> To: GetActiveSouthGeorgia@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [GetActiveSouthGeorgia] something lighter
>
>
>
> At the request of another poster and in light of the recent cautionary
> but heavy post, I thought it appropriate to share this.
>
> I competed in a "5k" this past weekend. Wait for it. Most everyone
> is aware of my couple of tumbles over the Summer which resulted in a
> lengthy layoff to heal a leg/foot injury. Still a-comin. I was
> making what I thought to be a strong showing and looking at maybe,
> maybe running a 19:something for the first time in months. Here it
> is. Roughly 150 yards (YARDS not METERS, this is the U. S. of A.) from
> the finish I run through the big ol mud puddle like the three guys in
> front of me. Unfortunately, unlike those three, I totally bought it
> when I hit the grass on the other side. Seems they all went around
> the puddle, I, in the interest of gaining a second or two, ran through
> it. End result being a fall, a nice little slide, and a 20 minute
> something performance. yay me. This is really funny when you think
> about my 6'3" frame sliding through the grass while holding up my feet
> to avoid another injury. Sigh...embarrassing.
>
> Excelsior
>