The chin run

[frojoe23]

Thought I'd let everybody know about my run today. To say the least, the last few days have been trying. I had a pretty terrible run out Christie Road yesterday - just no energy or anything. Then, this morning's run was worse. I ran two loops in Frostburg by myself. I absolutely did not want to be running today, but made it all of the way through the run. I was headed down Mount Pleasant Street and rounded the corner at the bottom of the hill. I must have hit a patch of ice because my legs went out from under me and then I smacked my chin off of the pavement. I only had about 300 meters back to the car and I looked down to see my shirt covered in mud, but then I realized that it was blood.

I went to my parent's and got cleaned up and didn't think about stitches or anything. My mom thought that I should go to the hospital and my Dad thought that a stitch would close it up. Well, I went home (had the day off of work) and then I told Jackie about it and I wouldn't let her see it. I went into the bathroom and looked again and decided to go and see what they could do about it.

3 and a half hours later, I am all patched up with 5 stitches in my chin. I wish I could show you guys what this looked like before the stitches. Well, anyway at least it wasn't somebody's sidewalk that did my in!!!

I'll post pics tomorrow

[flyinghighrunner]

it was probably ice leftover from snow melting from a sidewalk that wasn't shoveled

[frojoe23]

This is my shirt covered in blood. All happened in the amount of time it took me to run the last 300 meters and drive to my parent's. About 3-4 minutes.

[frojoe23]

Here we go. I put it in an Imagestation Album. Here's the link. I feel like I got hit by a Mack truck today. My hands are sore and my hip hurts pretty bad along with my face.

www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2095226451