Accident prone?

Jen J

Is anyone else here really accident-prone?

I wrote this in my blog earlier...A week before my first ultra, Kent 50, I was on crutches. 5 days before my PB marathon in Sydney, I twisted my ankle and had a hugely swollen and bruised foot. And the night before my last ultra I was nearly admitted to hospital and stuck on a drip.

Writing that was prompted by spending this evening in A&E after falling down the stairs (after I came back from my run, luckily )

It's mostly just bruising, and after a couple of trips to x-ray for my thumb ( :? ), the conclusion was tendon damage rather than bone damage.

But it's no surprise really that I've come off the bike a few times.

Am I just amazingly clumsy? Or is this normal?

biondino

Aw darl, you must be sore! Take it easy and look after yourself. And hold onto the handrail

hisoka

I would say I am rather accident prone too. I've had people look at me mystified when we have been talking about "interesting stories" as most accidents tend to be spectacular or at least weird. E.G. Managing to rip half of a toe nail out + skinning the toe walking to the bathroom at night in the house, and that was just on normal carpet.
So I don't think you are too bad there, sounds normal to me. (normal being within the realms of "not that odd" hehe)

hondafanatic

and/or

tailwindhome

50 mile run!
:shock:
Sweet Jesus are you mad?

Just looked at the Kent 50 website

What 50 miles not enough? Have to do that extra 2.4miles to round it up to two marathons


Fair play til ya!

itboffin

WheezyMcChubby wrote:

50 mile run!
:shock:
Sweet Jesus are you mad?

Just looked at the Kent 50 website

What 50 miles not enough? Have to do that extra 2.4miles to round it up to two marathons


Fair play til ya!

I'd have to agree you do seem a little cuckoo - take it easy madam nothing to be gained by killing yourself.

I wonder what stabilisers would do to ones FCN score, could you imagine the shame as you fly pass mini wheels spinning a blur :shock:

Jen J

Enough of the running. I want to hear stories of other people's accidents, so I can feel less stupid... :oops:

ansbaradigeidfran

Not biking related, but as a kid I chased my younger brother through an internal glass door that he'd just closed in my face.

I got a ride in an ambulance, no general anaesthetic (having eaten too recently), and 38 stitches in my arm. On the upshot, my class sent me a get well card and a box of Terry's All Gold!

linsen

Jen J wrote:

Enough of the running. I want to hear stories of other people's accidents, so I can feel less stupid... :oops:

I leant over a pocket rocket stove last year just after I turned it off and heard the skin on my arm sizzle....

I frequently drop plates and bang my head etc.

My husband can trump that though, and all bike related.

When around 10 or so he put his foot into the spokes on the front wheel of his bike (for some bizarre reason), flew over the bars and broke his arm.

He has a couple of times leant the wrong way when unclipping.

In spactacular style last year he took a corner at a bit of a lick in the wet and broke his hip in two places....

He was back on the bike within two months though

hisoka

Well I did have an unclipping incident that was funny.
Riding, had only been using spds a short while but long enough and going along a cycle path. Two ladies were stopped by the side and seeming to be lost (looking at a map confused).
So I pull over to stop to try and help, unclip on the left and lean over. All fine as foot on floor. I was a little far away so put down kickstand to stand up bike as I am getting off. Lean too far in putting down kickstand, and slowly fall the other was as unable to unclip the other foot in time. Much "Are you ok?" from the ladies, held back laughing from them but not from me as landed fine on gravel edge to road and start to laugh my butt off.
It was an ice breaker and I helped them find where they were going, but if I had a big ego to bruise it might have done it then, but you know what they say "where there is no shame there is no blushes" or at least I do.

biondino

That story would be even better if you married one of the ladies.

always_tyred

hisoka wrote:

Well I did have an unclipping incident that was funny.
Riding, had only been using spds a short while but long enough and going along a cycle path. Two ladies were stopped by the side and seeming to be lost (looking at a map confused).
So I pull over to stop to try and help, unclip on the left and lean over. All fine as foot on floor. I was a little far away so put down kickstand to stand up bike as I am getting off. Lean too far in putting down kickstand, and slowly fall the other was as unable to unclip the other foot in time. Much "Are you ok?" from the ladies, held back laughing from them but not from me as landed fine on gravel edge to road and start to laugh my butt off.
It was an ice breaker and I helped them find where they were going, but if I had a big ego to bruise it might have done it then, but you know what they say "where there is no shame there is no blushes" or at least I do.

You do realise that you've inadvertently confessed to having a bike with a kick stand, don't you?

That is second only to a wicker basket on the bars.

Greg T

Jen - I diagnose that you sign up for massively hard endurance events and then knacker yourself just prior to them so you have an excuse to cry off.

It's Munchausens Syndrome or the China Syndrome or ADHD or something. I suggest you get yourself down to Stoke Mandeville and declare yourself "mental" they'll electro-shock you until you don't have these urges anymore. Also say you feel a bit "gay" they'll give you some more volts for that just in case.

Let us know how it goes, when you get out and learn to type again.

hisoka

Always Tyred wrote:

hisoka wrote:

Well I did have an unclipping incident that was funny.
Riding, had only been using spds a short while but long enough and going along a cycle path. Two ladies were stopped by the side and seeming to be lost (looking at a map confused).
So I pull over to stop to try and help, unclip on the left and lean over. All fine as foot on floor. I was a little far away so put down kickstand to stand up bike as I am getting off. Lean too far in putting down kickstand, and slowly fall the other was as unable to unclip the other foot in time. Much "Are you ok?" from the ladies, held back laughing from them but not from me as landed fine on gravel edge to road and start to laugh my butt off.
It was an ice breaker and I helped them find where they were going, but if I had a big ego to bruise it might have done it then, but you know what they say "where there is no shame there is no blushes" or at least I do.

You do realise that you've inadvertently confessed to having a bike with a kick stand, don't you?

That is second only to a wicker basket on the bars.

Past tense, I HAD a bike like that, before it got stolen And it wasn't inadvertently, see note about lack of shame (doesn't mean I will do things stupid, I just have no shame when it is an accident/more ridable bike with kickstand)
Waiting for cycle2work scheme to sort out at work now before getting a new one, using a VERY old, very knackered MTB to ride around on. Not pleasant but it gets me from A to bit-past-B-as-brakes-don't-work-well.
Now a wicker basket, interesting sounding indeed..... or not.

Next accident I shall admit to is possibly even funnier.
Wet day, horrible but I manage to ride the full 4 miles to meet up with friends at the pub (it is sort of a local, in the sense of it is the pub I go to as a matter of preference).
Lots of wind, but stay on bike, lots of water and puddles but stay on bike, leaves everywhere, stay on bike. Get to bike rack, a few leaves on ground, apply brakes carefully but not carefully enough. Skid, wack, wallop, lying face down on floor, bike next to me. Can't have been going more then a walking pace when the fall started as I know I landed and didn't move forward at all.
Minor bruising (was gone in a couple of days), covered in mucky crud from the ground, bike was absolutely fine. Walk into the pub with a few looks at my once white shirt, now a brownish splodgey affair, and "Are you ok there?" only answer I had "Mine's a Guiness, thanks".

sazzledazzle

Jen J wrote:

Enough of the running. I want to hear stories of other people's accidents, so I can feel less stupid... :oops:

Happy to oblige

All the below happened in the last 10 years or so, frankly I'm a bit surprised to still be alive!!

1. Fell on the pointy end of a ski - resulted in a fractured skull. On the same holiday I also fell off a ski lift when the bar failed to lock in place.
2. Broken nose from slipping on a ball point pen (who'd have thought they c'd be so dangerous!).
3. 12" Slice to thigh and left butt cheek from sliding down a hill on a bin bag. There was a 1cm dusting of snow - honest.
4. Slipped in the shower and broke two toes.
5. Got my right hand stuck in an automatic garage door mechanism and had to have two tendons in my fingers re-attached.
6. Suffered burns to both legs from sliding down some stair rails trying to prove hitting 30 did not mean I was old and past it. :shock:
7. Rode into the back of a parked van that I failed to notice because I was faffing about with my Garmin.

I could go on and on - but I'm sure it's getting boring now

always_tyred

sazzledazzle wrote:

Jen J wrote:

Enough of the running. I want to hear stories of other people's accidents, so I can feel less stupid... :oops:

Happy to oblige

All the below happened in the last 10 years or so, frankly I'm a bit surprised to still be alive!!

1. Fell on the pointy end of a ski - resulted in a fractured skull. On the same holiday I also fell off a ski lift when the bar failed to lock in place.
2. Broken nose from slipping on a ball point pen (who'd have thought they c'd be so dangerous!).
3. 12" Slice to thigh and left butt cheek from sliding down a hill on a bin bag. There was a 1cm dusting of snow - honest.
4. Slipped in the shower and broke two toes.
5. Got my right hand stuck in an automatic garage door mechanism and had to have two tendons in my fingers re-attached.
6. Suffered burns to both legs from sliding down some stair rails trying to prove hitting 30 did not mean I was old and past it. :shock:
7. Rode into the back of a parked van that I failed to notice because I was faffing about with my Garmin.

I could go on and on - but I'm sure it's getting boring now

That is staggering.

How the $%^& do you fall off a ski lift?

Don't come anywhere near me. Its not safe.

Jen J

Greg T wrote:

Jen - I diagnose that you sign up for massively hard endurance events and then knacker yourself just prior to them so you have an excuse to cry off.

Damn. Busted.

Although I still ran those races :evil:

sazzledazzle

How the $%^& do you fall off a ski lift?

Easy peasy - you have a boyfriend who thinks it's funny to swing the chair, the dodgy bar flips up and out you go! Was only a few meters up though so it wasn't too bad.

Jen J

sazzledazzle wrote:

Jen J wrote:

Enough of the running. I want to hear stories of other people's accidents, so I can feel less stupid... :oops:

Happy to oblige

All the below happened in the last 10 years or so, frankly I'm a bit surprised to still be alive!!

1. Fell on the pointy end of a ski - resulted in a fractured skull. On the same holiday I also fell off a ski lift when the bar failed to lock in place.
2. Broken nose from slipping on a ball point pen (who'd have thought they c'd be so dangerous!).
3. 12" Slice to thigh and left butt cheek from sliding down a hill on a bin bag. There was a 1cm dusting of snow - honest.
4. Slipped in the shower and broke two toes.
5. Got my right hand stuck in an automatic garage door mechanism and had to have two tendons in my fingers re-attached.
6. Suffered burns to both legs from sliding down some stair rails trying to prove hitting 30 did not mean I was old and past it. :shock:
7. Rode into the back of a parked van that I failed to notice because I was faffing about with my Garmin.

I could go on and on - but I'm sure it's getting boring now

Are you my long lost twin

Actually your list is a lot more impressive than mine.

I think my best one was ending up in hospital after slicing my hand open on a ring binder. Office stationary is very hazardous you know...

pyebibby4

any one get the feeling they ride with some one who is a pussy with a big bike

(all the gear but no idea?)

i got on i keep falling off ripping myself to bits on my hand built djer

but him on his freeride bike woont jump off a wall!

and he deosnt hit the ground!!!

:@ he annouys me!

always_tyred

sazzledazzle wrote:

How the $%^& do you fall off a ski lift?

Easy peasy - you have a boyfriend who thinks it's funny to swing the chair, the dodgy bar flips up and out you go! Was only a few meters up though so it wasn't too bad.

If you still go out with him..... you shouldn't.

sazzledazzle

Jen J wrote:

Are you my long lost twin

Actually your list is a lot more impressive than mine.

I think my best one was ending up in hospital after slicing my hand open on a ring binder. Office stationary is very hazardous you know...

No stationary related incidents that I can think of - but I did once fall off my chair whilst in a meeting at work, turned out that the leg broke. I swear if something is broken, or doesn't work properly I will be drawn to it by some sort of irresistible urge. It's like the Father Ted episode where Dougal is drawn to press a Big Red 'Do not press' button on the plane, if anything painful can happen it will always happen to me!

tailwindhome

Greg T wrote:

Jen - I diagnose that you sign up for massively hard endurance events and then knacker yourself just prior to them so you have an excuse to cry off.

It's Munchausens Syndrome or the China Syndrome or ADHD or something. I suggest you get yourself down to Stoke Mandeville and declare yourself "mental" they'll electro-shock you until you don't have these urges anymore. Also say you feel a bit "gay" they'll give you some more volts for that just in case.

Let us know how it goes, when you get out and learn to type again.

Ah! I believe it's known as Paula Radcliffe Disease

Jen J

WheezyMcChubby wrote:

Ah! I believe it's known as Paula Radcliffe Disease

Harsh. And untrue.