... looking for tree roots is more important than checking my pace on my watch. Downhill on a narrow green lane, cracking pace & then boom! A short (but ultimately terrestrial) flying moment.
Was it Douglas Adams who wrote that the secret of successful flying was to throw yourself at the ground, and miss?
Ouch! Looks like a fine bruise in the making there...
Owww! Hope you got some ice on it pretty quick.
Oh, sorry, no. I'm a chap, so never really look after myself properly 
However I did have a bath to wash out the mud and leaves (and scabs). It stung a bit, to be honest.
Not surprised really.
Ouch! Been there, done that too!🙂
Tree roots will always win the day 😩
One thing is certain, your majesty. They are not going to win on Saturday when I go that way again in my village cross-country run. Or put another way: I'll not be checking my pace on the green lane
Ouch!!!!
My first thought was "I'll have to cut my run short" as it was stinging a bit. But I bravely soldiered on for another 7km.
Running on adrenaline eh!
Ouch! Looks like a good running war wound there. Be proud and take it easy.
The flight was yesterday. I've given myself today off ( !!) and I'll run again tomorrow (Wednesday). Then 2 rest days 'til my race.
Oh dear. Commiserations
Oops! Mine are still smarting 3 days on...
Ouch....!!!
It was indeed...Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , and your knee definitely gives credence to the rest of the statement...
"Clearly, it is the second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties."
I shall be particularly wary as I head out this morning... hope it heals soon x
They leap out at ya don't they 😁
Oh dear Marky, you look a right state but you'll be fine. It won't be the last tumble ..... Our knees are like maps. I still have a scar on mine but that could have been the hedge cutter incident ☺️
hi
looks painful hope it heals soon as some one said its not the falling (flying ) that hurts its the stopping
take care and be well
Ow. Just Owwww 
Hope that the damage is 'just' on the surface and that you haven't cracked or torn anything underneath. Arnica, arnica, arnica. I've only fallen once, and I came out worse off than the road surface too.
You say arnica. I say Vin Rouge, the answer to many trivial ailments. And for the more serious ailments: gin.
I wouldn't waste gin by rubbing it on my scabs...
I normally drink it... doesn't help the scabs but it dulls the pain of our pointless, oppressed lives. Oh sorry, I had an attack of the W. Hogarths there for a minute.
I'm thinking we should start up a C25k flying club for those of us afflicted by tree roots and the like. At my age, I had thought I'd got this moving on 2 legs thing cracked, but I've fallen more times in the last 2 years than I did the previous 4 decades...
Ahh, but you are moving more these last 2 years. More opportunity to test flying abilities. Not much opportunity to fall off a couch, is there?
At my most ill I had a remarkable ability to fall out of bed. Do not ask me how I could move enough to fall out but not enough to lift my face out of the carpet.
Absolutely! I have to say, too, that I am getting much better at it! The first time it happened I was really shocked and shaking - now I tend to just check nothing is broken and that no one is watching (it's just SO embarassing to take a dive in front of a crowd). The last trip only hurt (grazes aside) as I was launching myself down a very steep hill. The ground seems so much softer when I'm ski-ing!
Ouch! Seems like it's the week for falling. Good job bruises heal quickly. Hope you're feeling better soon.
Love the Douglas Adams quote, the man was a genius
Genius, too true.
The incidence of falling is rising, if reports from this forum are to be believed. I noticed this morning that I have a graze on both palms, one elbow and the outside of my forearm. Which I don't understand. But I'm a brave soldier and will run tomorrow.
Ouch
Oooh I bet that chafed !
Big Up to you though Mark for getting up and carrying on !
Well 'ard ! xxx
I have a petrol hedge cutter, a Robin, and have had two skirmishes with it. The second one was when I lowered my tired arms to give them a rest but the darned thing took my trousers into the cutters and chewed up my knee, in an instant. Hence Kevlar trousers. Lesson learned
I have had about four falls, tree roots were responsible for two of them. At least the ground was soft but by the look of you, ouchity ouch, you really did a good job. At 53, once I know no really serious damage is done, it does make me giggle, bit naughty falling about at my age LOL
Today's 9k run... and why I love running.
A lesson learnt !!!!! 
Speedy Six km!
Distance is coming back, got my first runners high for ages today! 
Parkrun PB streak ended 
