I go to the ymca most every morning to work out. I alternate between swimming and doing the treadmill plus weights. While on the treadmill I only get up to 3.7 mph so its a walk for me. Even at that sedate pace I have often had near moments when watching HGTV and walking. I have often pictured myself falling on it and was pretty sure I didn't want to.

Yesterday I was hoofing along and to my right there was a yelp and the sound of a relative soft object hitting hard objects. One of my fellow treadmillers had gotten a little too involved in someone's remodel project and had mis stepped. He as actually running maybe 5 or 6 mph. He missed a step and that treadmill spit him off the back quicker than a country boy getting rid of a watermelon seed.

At first he jumped up quickly and said he was not hurt but very embarrassed, but after closer examination he found he had cut his finger. He went to the desk and in about ten minutes was back on the treadmill going as fast as ever.

I am still very sure I don't want to emulate him by falling!

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Friend's basement in college. Lots of beer. Treadmill set to max speed. "Hey, hold my beer and watch this!" I still bear a scar on my knee from this incident.

I avoid falling down whenever possible but still manage to do it a couple of times a month. Last month I had to wade in to break up a fight between two of my does. They were bashing each others' heads over some affront or other. Normally I let them fight but these two were my best prospects for an upcoming show and I didn't want any scabby heads. I got between them but one twisted around behind me and buckled my knees. I went backwards over her back and landed smack on my tailbone. Not a good place to hit when your lower back is about shot to begin with. At our age falling down isn't fun.

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Yes. I saw him today and asked how he was. He has a mark that bled on his forehead too and deep bruises on his right side. He said he drifted to the right and took a step on the non moving frame to the right and with his left foot on the belt it just whipped him around in a heartbeat and spit him onto the floor behind.

Ouch!

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

At some point our wisdom is supposed to stop us from self-destruction with stuff like treadmills, goats, ladders, chainsaws and dirtbikes. I don't know when. Maybe after I grow up?

We were talking the other day about driving and how much traffic accidents have affected us over the years. I never really thought about it in a time-line, linear fashion but looking back now it is kinda scary. Driving in the 'burbs is for the birds.

near moments when watching HGTV

I hope you weren't mesmerized by that lovely Hillary Farr and her charming accent.

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So the Y has been closed for a month or two with the virus and all. So it opened yesterday. I held off til today but went today and did the treadmill and weights. I am weak from lack of that sort of exercise during the lock down. I have been only walking for exercise. The upper body stuff is important because I need strength to get in and out of the little race car. The Y seemed good, I wore a mask and surgical gloves.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

That sounds like the title of a movie...

Oh, wait, ....right .

Anyway , as you age out your chances of serious injury from falling increase rapidly .

It's been some time since I fell, I remember falling getting out of my coupe a few years back, I'm 6' tall and really slammed to the ground when my foot caught in my cane, I was stunned for a few minuets and thought I'd seriously hurt my self but apparently not although my glasses were pretty badly scratched .

BE CAREFUL ! .

Any time I realize I'm about to fall I fold my knees and drop sideways, this has saved me from breaking bones more than once I am sure .

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1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

At the hospital they always ask you past a certain age if you have fallen in the last three months. I know it is a reasonable question but I find it disturbing. It is somewhat like have you started drinking in the last three months. I know it is a standard format but do I really look that old and unfit?. Yet it also presents an opportunity for an interesting answer.

Anyways there I was standing in the front hallway looking out the screen door glass for awhile at the start of the lockdown. The large dog quietly came up behind me and curled up on the floor.

Eventually I turned to walk back and airborne I went over the dog. Those ceramic tiles are hard. I got back up and seemed okay but my hand was dripping blood. I thought it needed a couple of stiches. Decided that I did not want to drop by the emergency ward.

So convinced the wife to help me get the cut together and try bandaging it. Well all went well. Except I could never figure out what I cut the hand on. The wife thought the edge of a grouted ceramic tile. I though perhaps the edge of a stair tread. In any event I was suprised the fall did not even really shake me up. Even though I really slammed into that floor kind of sideways and hard. Reading the various posts it was thirty seven years ago the last time I actually fell. Before that.

I though at that time back then.. I do not bounce like a kid anymore.

A non fall was out at the cottage last September during the hurricane. I had tied everything up. Something needed tied down better. I went out and the wind took me off my feet. I had slipped a pair of shoes on but did not tie them. We never found either of the shoes after the storm.

Not long after the wind was screaming so bad. I was watching the large glass widows flex more than I liked. If one blew in I thought it could kill you. Also if the wind increased in strength any more. There could be issues. Anyways the flexing of the glass in one widow ruined the seal on a thermopane. As it turned out the next day by examining the level of damage in the general vicinity. We were very close to the center of that hurricane.

Last fall I remember was in Monterey CA. I stepped onto a large rock which had an angling top. It had some sort of grit on it which was not visible and I had both feet on it and they just started sliding. I came down on my rump and elbows. Nothing damaged except my skin and my pride. I am very careful in my movements to avoid falling.

I remember when my Dad was here helping me with finishing my house...one day he walked out onto my driveway which has a fairly steep slope. He stepped onto some frost and slipped and came down in a fetal position. Ooomph he said. Fortunately no injury. It is always good to land on your side if you can. Dad would have been in his seventies at that time I imagine.

I'm gonna go swim today.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Way back when I was a teenager my G.F.'s alcoholic mother got banged by a car, flew up onto the curbstone and broke her hip badly .

She spent quite a while in the hospital, the doctors told me that people over the age of 50 who break hips are often never able to walk again and usually die within 1 - 1/2 years if they don't become ambulatory again .

Women loose the calcium out of their bones faster than men as they age .

I didn't realize that 50 was so old a the time, her mother was still quite the beauty .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

Hard to fall while swimming

Not as hard as one would think. The perimeter of the school pool was slippery and away I went. Got a small cut on my foot and the infection became really bad. Probably my first shot of penicillin in my hip.


Did that foot ever swell up with the infection . The doctor took a pair of scissors and cut a piece of skin out to drain it. You feel no pain when they do this.


That struck me as odd at the time. I could no longer walk when my dad took me to the emergency ward.

Fess up. You were not swimming, wading in the shallows at best

I am careful everywhere. I use the ladders to get in and out of the pool.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.