Uncool Runnings. One Misplaced Foot Was All It Took

You have permission to laugh at me this week. It was rather funny. In the true spirit of this Substack I've even tried to find some action points to take from this incident!

Taken by me two days before, at the very spot my incident happened.

I rolled on the ground in front of this guy.

It kind of happened in slow motion really.

You see, I was deep in an audio book about 2 km into my run. It was a lovely afternoon here. One of those winter afternoons where it wasn’t too cold but as the sun started to go down a real nip was beginning to pierce through my running gear.

In the moments before my dignified roll I was pretty zoned out, deep in an audio book and running on auto pilot.

Maybe that was my downfall. Literally. We spend much of our lives on auto pilot and here I was running along the edge of the canal not really in control of my body.

As it happened it felt like slow motion. Suddenly the world was kind of spinning. The first thing I noticed was my arm hitting the deck. Then a pain in my knee.

Falling over when you’re a grown up hurts. My kids are always rolling over. A few tears and some special cream and they’re up and away again.

For a grown up there’s fur…