Non-Skating-Related Injury
I haven't had much to write about lately because I took a non-skating-related spill in the first month of December. I'd been using skating as my social cardio, taking the place of the weekly run club I had belonged to. While I haven't regularly gone to those meets for some time, I do still sign up for 5K races, if the theme is fun enough. I had signed up for this downtown Tampa Hot Chocolate 5K a year ago. I was dressed in a Christmas theme (I don't like to do a race if there isn't potential for a fun outfit). Early on, the race course took us to a drawbridge, which has a large-holed metal grate along the parts that move up for the ships--probably for aerodynamic purposes, but not very inviting to run on. I saw it coming up and said, "What? What is this? We're expected to run on this?" And guess what? I fell. I hadn't fallen while running before. If I had been on the rink, I'd have had pads over every part that I injured on tha...