Silliest way you have gotten injured

tunney

Whats the silliest way that you have gotten injured. My two most recent injuries have been from acting the bollocks with my daughter. Most recent one was from forgetting she isn't 15 pounds anymore and is too heavy to throw around the place and throwing my back out. Total agony. Total stupidity.

ecoli

tunney wrote: »

Whats the silliest way that you have gotten injured. My two most recent injuries have been from acting the bollocks with my daughter. Most recent one was from forgetting she isn't 15 pounds anymore and is too heavy to throw around the place and throwing my back out. Total agony. Total stupidity.

Injury 1 - 3-4 days off training

In full sprint ran into a a crowd control barrier badly bruising my inner thigh/ groin. Couldnt walk for two days properly and couldnt run for nearly four days. Stupidity personified

Injury 2 - No days off (against better judgement)

Argument with my female friend at a party about how she has been benching XX Kilos in gym and how i would be no bother. Challenged her to this (unbeknowing she had spent the last few hours in the pub and was not exactly sober). She had me in her arms before falling forward (me still in arms) result - dislocated shoulder

Woddle

In my teens, I had a wardrobe at the bottom side of my bed and I remember having a dream about football and I was taking a penalty and as I took the kick I woke up yelling after smashing my right foot through the wardrobe.

DULLAHAN2

Woddle wrote: »

In my teens, I had a wardrobe at the bottom side of my bed and I remember having a dream about football and I was taking a penalty and as I took the kick I woke up yelling after smashing my right foot through the wardrobe.

HaHa you win:D

For me it was putting by daughter into her car seat whislt wearing a suit and not wanting to get it dirty i woundnt bend over and put my back out.

pmcd22

was out having a kick about in high grass. just really messing about and ended up kicking a concrete block. nasty gash on the foot. took a good few weeks before it healed.

rainbow kirby

Back in my martial arts days, I dislocated a bone in my foot by accidentally kicking someone's elbow when I wasn't wearing footpads. Icky part: I put it back into place myself. :eek:

noeleoreid

was in an arcade room with my friend , and was at the punching bag machine.

For those of u that aren't familiar with this machine, the punch bag drops down in front of you, it only swings forward and back..

being it his turn, i was standing at the side, for a joke i decided to give the bag a belt from the side ..... bag never budged... Result : Broken wrist, friend in stitches laughing.

Domer

While in college with no money, bought an industrial size bottle of cheap shampoo... next day, taking a shower, the thing fell off the shelf, and broke two of my toes. Very painful... but not as painful as telling my coach how I got injured!!!

MisterDrak

Friends wedding in Spain in August, way to hot to wear shoes, so i bought flip flops the day before. Wore said flip flops which cut the toes off me, decided to remove then as the dancing started, just after somebody dropped a wine glass. Result - lump of glass in the right foot for 3 months...

huskerdu

Once upon a time, I sprained the ligaments in both ankles at the same time, on a dance floor, late at night......
Luckily, one of the crowd I was with was a very experienced club runner, who was sober. He went into action with RICE immediately.

I reckon he saved me weeks of recovery time.

I never forgot the lesson.

trad

On honeymoon in the Canaries 3 weeks before my first (and only) marathon having a drink in the apartment, got up to go for a leak and stood on a wine glass. Broke straight through my foot.


Kept the biggest piece of glass I removed from my foot as a momento inc ase I didn't make the run. (I did).

Nwm2

2 days before an A race I was getting my bike ready. Pumped up both tyres with a track pump.

I obviously had bent over incorrectly doing this, because as I was going back into the house I noticed my lower back aching, got worse and worse and eventually I spent much of the night lying on the floor with my feet up.

Through Neurofen, emergency physio and anti-inflamatory back patches I just about managed to compete.

ThePiedPiper

DULLAHAN2 wrote: »

For me it was putting by daughter into her car seat whislt wearing a suit and not wanting to get it dirty i woundnt bend over and put my back out.

I did the exact same thing 4 days before a marathon this year. I could hardly walk for a week but somehow adrenalin, pain killers and heat patches saw me through a sub 3 marathon!

Number 2 stupid injury would've been running into a pothole on a dark winter's night and breaking a bone in my foot.

pgibbo

A couple of years ago I had to go out to the car to get my gear and a few other things. Being the lazy sod that I am I didnb't bother putting on shoes or socks. I went out through the garage and was fully loaded with a few bags. The strap of my gearbag was hanging down and needless to say I tripped over it and caught the bottom of my foot on a very sharp concrete step. I ripped the a couple of inches of skin off the sole of my foot. My OH wanted me to go to hospital but I didn;t. Went to the doc the next day and he siad it should have been stitched but was too late now. Missed a nice bit of training as a result. Muppet

murphhy

Pulled ligaments in my ankle after falling from a 1st floor balcony while trying to climb onto it...ankle was just better when i was out 1 night, bout 2 months ago and pulled them again......still sore now sometimes

RHunce

In school the yard is split into two. Seniors and Juniors. We both have our own soccer/basketball courts. One day we lost our soccer ball over the building so a couple of the lads decided we'd take the third years ball..

Twenty of the 6th yrs went in to rob the ball and got it with a few minor scuffles. The ball was kicked high in the air over my head in my direction as I was the one to run away with it.

I ran, eyes only for the ball high in the air, arms stretch out. Just as I caught it at full flight, SMACK. Straight into a picnic table. It creased me. All across my quads were bruised for over a week and I could barely walk. The pain was unbearable but the embarrassment was worse.

Cue two hundred or so people breaking their holes laughing!

Bloody Nipples

Turning my head. Was lying in bed one morning, when my mother came in, I turned to look at her and strained the muscles attaching the back of my skull to my shoulders.

Cue me with my head stuck looking over my left shoulder for 2-3 days and on muscle relaxants and pain killers.

A few years later I did the exact same thing on the other side while stretching at the breakfast table in a hotel in Belfast.

napathy

Was away with work and went for a run in Hyde park. Came out of the park full of energy and then came onto a busy street and had to slow up. Was trying to decide whether to go to the left or right of the guy in front of me when he suddenly went left so I powered on, nuts first, into a high bollard. Went over the top and then slid down the other side Like a drunken pole dancer and bounced my head off the ground. Had to hobble on for another mile before I got back to the hotel.

the say people in big cities can be cold and don't engage but everyone on the street that day was more than happy to take the time out to point and laugh at me!

shels4ever

Most stupid injury for me are usually from , going training when i know i'm injured, racing when i know i'm injured .
The silly one was pulling a muscle when coughing

glennhysen

Octoberfest in the IFSC a couple of years ago. Had a great night with my friends and was fairly well oiled when i got home. Woke up the next morning and couldn't move my left knee. Went to the hospital and the ex-ray confirmed the I had torn my ACL. I can't remember what happened to me that night and neither can any of my friends. No running for 4 months.

doctorchick

Torn Ligaments 1:-
Tend not to go down to the Athenry circle for shot putt training so use my back garden. Walking to retrieve the shot putt, foot into divot, twisted ankle, tear ligaments, not able to throw for weeks.

Torn Ligaments 2:-
Walking from car park to get hair cut (by Magnet), turned to zap the car with remote, step off side of pavement, next thing I know am in a heap on the floor. Tried to get up and can't, think this time I have busted my ankle. Hop to Magnets shop (don't get much sympathy ) and watch the ankle swell and blood pool under the skin. Grade 2 tear of ligament (same ankle as #1) and don't get to throw for remainder of the year.

yesno1234

Two studpid injuries

1. Was in a rush and had to change my runners. The runners were kind of slip on ones, I wasn't bother reaching down and taking them off so I was kind of kicking them off. Shoe came off and I kicked the ground with my big toe. Could hardly walk for a few days.

2. During college I found a cabbage in the house and was just about to bowl it down the hall when my mate kicked my finger. Severly swollen hand for bout two weeks and 4 months on I still get occasional pain and I still can't close my finger fully. Stupid and pointless college shenanigans.

gerard65

Came out of a shopping centre to find a selfish git had parked right up beside my drivers door. No way of getting into my car on that side so had to get in the passenger side. Its an Auris and has a central console between the front seats. Swung my right leg over the climb into the drivers seat. As the leg was in the air I got a stabbing pain from my quad into my hip. Could'nt move for about 5 mins, one leg on the drivers side, one leg on the passengers side. Was sore for days after.

Izoard

tunney wrote: »

Whats the silliest way that you have gotten injured. My two most recent injuries have been from acting the bollocks with my daughter. Most recent one was from forgetting she isn't 15 pounds anymore and is too heavy to throw around the place and throwing my back out. Total agony. Total stupidity.

The world works in mysterious ways (if I have my facts right...)

When I'm in Dublin, my normal weekday route takes me from town out through Sean Moore Park in Ringsend, along Sandymount Strand to Blackrock Park and back.

Now, as a committed low-intensity trainer, I rarely get any type of injury, but one day, I was out for my normal run and on the way back, when I see a runner coming in the opposite direction.
This chap had a cap on and a green t-shirt with some kind of wording that looked like it was straight from a stag weekend. He also stood out for a distinctive flat-palm running motion.
Unfortunately, I was just hitting the steps back into Moore Park when I came across my fellow runner - as I hit the first step I turned back to work out the full wording, but as I did, I missed the 2nd step and BANG, fell off the steps and rolled my ankle - 2 weeks of no running ensued.

So far, so boring, but on reflection, I'm 90%+ sure the runner was Mr. tunney*.....

Bad karma for focusing on distance over speed:)

*-10% chance it wasn't tunney.

tunney

Izoard wrote: »

The world works in mysterious ways (if I have my facts right...)

When I'm in Dublin, my normal weekday route takes me from town out through Sean Moore Park in Ringsend, along Sandymount Strand to Blackrock Park and back.

Now, as a committed low-intensity trainer, I rarely get any type of injury, but one day, I was out for my normal run and on the way back, when I see a runner coming in the opposite direction.
This chap had a cap on and a green t-shirt with some kind of wording that looked like it was straight from a stag weekend. He also stood out for a distinctive flat-palm running motion.
Unfortunately, I was just hitting the steps back into Moore Park when I came across my fellow runner - as I hit the first step I turned back to work out the full wording, but as I did, I missed the 2nd step and BANG, fell off the steps and rolled my ankle - 2 weeks of no running ensued.

So far, so boring, but on reflection, I'm 90%+ sure the runner was Mr. tunney*.....

Bad karma for focusing on distance over speed:)

*-10% chance it wasn't tunney.

It said "Tonight I'm Single"

valerie

Drunken chin-up competition a few years ago. Landed directly on my knee caps before I'd even realised my hands slipped off the bar. Badly bruised and swollen but thankfully nothing broken.
Also did my back in for a while after being in the bottom of a human pyramid. Ah drunken college memories....

biomed32

Three truely stupid injuries to be honest, two in work and one not in work. First injury was when I was throwing out some rubbish bags (I work in a cinema) and I threw open the emergency exit door and tried to catch it so it didn't slam, my hand got mashed between the door and a concrete wall, four fingers on that hand were grazed and swollen for a couple week making cycling difficult. The second incident was falling down the stairs in a fully booked cinema screen while seating. Damaged knee and sore back as well as being the laughing stock of 180 members of the general public, kept me from running and cycling for about a month. The final stupidity was slipping in the showers in a swimming pool which my foot ended up under some chipboard wall removing all the skin from the top of my foot, another month laid up!!

volvoman480

A good few years ago I was having a kick around with a pal of mine when I slipped on dog s**t. Broke my left ankle and tore the ligaments. 4 weeks in cast. A couple of years after that while playing soccer at school I managed to fall again, this time breaking my right ankle and the ligaments on that side. Another 4 weeks for that. Not long after I had my right hip repaired after the ball joint separated, god knows how that happened. I got a full year out with that. Currently, I'm exactly half way through a 3 month layoff for doing my right ankle again. This time I slipped on a manhole cover while clearing a drain. I broke, dislocated and tore the ligaments again. I'm starting to think I should give up walking altogether, it'd be safer!!!

Found this great shot of exactly how my leg looked after the most recent injury..

Perkina3

Injury 1 and probably the most stupid:

Training with the Army reserve. Was waiting on a new issue of kit but was having to use some old stuff till then... The trousers I was wearing were a tad tight and when I went to hurdle a fallen tree trunk during a drill I couldnt get my leg high enough and boom leg to tree and cue somersault to land bout 5/6 feet over the other side of the tree... Kept me out from training for two weeks.. .Was lucky it was just a lot of bad bruising

Injury 2:

Again army related.... Was climbing down a ladder during training and it was pitch black and lost my footing...Had some pretty heavy gear on my back (Probably saved me from a serious injury).... Landed flat on my back...Got up and kept going but was finding bruises and that for the next week.... Fun though

Injury 3: (Didn't actually stop me running but was stupid all the same).,... Dislocated my finger and put it back into place myself.... bloody thing isn't straight now:rolleyes:. Dislocated 3 fingers in the last 3 years...If I keep going at this rate... will have done them all by 30 :P