Got into town about 11:30 last night, got to my hotel, got my clothes ironed, and got to bed by 1AM. Funny, the heater in my room makes a sound similar to an alarm buzzer (hard to explain but that sound than a digital clock makes ...) when it starts up. So, about every hour or so I would jump up to turn off the alarm .... ;-). I got up and ran in the dark. The latest storm missed DC, but the one last week has left the bike path basically an inch of ice (seriously no pavement at all). So, I ran on some neighborhood roads, found some nice hilly routes, enjoyed myself immensely, even though the roads were just icy and slick everywhere. Then ... dedum dedum (think jaws) dedum dedum ... one minute I am cruising along, the next minute I am slowly but with great force hitting the ground ... whump ... my hand, my arm, my hip ... MY HEAD went SMACK against the curb ... I got up (this happened near a busy intersection and I had to refrain from being run over -- and my ego was bruised). Things really hurt, but I needed to get back to the hotel. I got up in my room and WOWSER I had an egg sized bump right over my right eye. I have been sitting in the meeting trying to ice to get the swelling to go down ... and it kind of has, but now my whole eye socket is swollen and I have a beautiful black eye ... it is beautiful! I was going to try to run again tonight (on the treadmill) -- but now I am not sure, I am little nauseated and I think I want to see how this plays out.
Here is my beautiful black eye ...
I hope you are all doing well, be careful out there!
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