Falls during running

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May 2019
7:20pm, 12 May 2019
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Derby Tup
I fall over very rarely off-road but have had a couple of unpleasant tumbles on tarmac. I don’t run on road now to mean anything ;-)
May 2019
7:33pm, 12 May 2019
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swittle
About the only thing I don't trip over is mushrooms ;)
May 2019
7:45pm, 12 May 2019
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LazyDaisy
Yes, have faceplanted (literally) twice. Once on an uneven paving slab; more spectacularly, on nothing but fatigue. That one landed me in A&E to have my eyebrow glued and broke my glasses :-(
May 2019
7:48pm, 12 May 2019
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Rosehip
All the time once the grass gets long

- my party trick is standing on the top of a drooping bit of long grass with one foot to make a perfect trip hazard for the other foot
May 2019
8:02pm, 12 May 2019
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Bazoaxe
Last fall was November when I tripped on a kerb.

Ive fallen twice in races, once was as close to my doorstep as any race has ever gone, the other was during VLM 2010.

I have had countless other falls including one that led to 3 years of injury problems and another run into a road sign took half of my forehead off !
May 2019
8:39pm, 12 May 2019
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LindsD
Yup. All the time. Once, quite spectacularly, over a dalmatian. That one caused me no end of bother with infected wounds.
May 2019
8:39pm, 12 May 2019
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Derby Tup
More than a spot of bother then?
May 2019
8:40pm, 12 May 2019
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becca7
I fall over quite a lot and both last January and this January had to go to A&E with bad knee cuts. I try and avoid running on tree rooty or stony terrain.
May 2019
8:43pm, 12 May 2019
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LindsD
Ha! @ DT
May 2019
8:45pm, 12 May 2019
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Dooogs
Yep, all the time - more on-road than off-road.

These were both from the same fall not long after I started running:


...and I was out for 3-4 months with a sprained ankle from a similar fall a year or two later:

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