I didn't think it was possible, certainly not likely but I did it. I don't mean slipping on the deck and breaking an arm. I mean "while swimming".
Two nights ago, going into my backstroke turn in the middle of my 200IM, I realized too late that the backstroke flags had been taken down. I arched my neck to look upside down toward the wall to guage the distance, BAM, I slammed face first into the wall. I came up with a pretty small gash on my nose and cut on my forehead. It wasn't so much painful as startling and certainly embarrassing. Once the bleeding stopped, I thought I should go see about getting it stitched at our local, friendly ER. While in the waiting room, I realized my face hurt...ALOT, so they did an x-ray and sure enough a broken nose.
I've never broken a bone in my life (knock on wood). I quit running 18 months ago b/c I had become so injury prone in my late 30's/early 40's. It's not so bad though, as broken bones go. I'll be back in the pool in a few days once my stitches are gone. The bone will take 4-6 weeks to heal but that shouldn't keep me out of the pool.
Just curious if I'm unique in this regard.
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Geez, who knew backstroke was so dangerous Quite frankly, everybody was surprised to realize the gravity of this injury. That female was nearly 6feet tall. Well built National level. 1:03 over 100m back. After all she just crashed into a wall. But since she wasn't at all expecting the wall maybe she gave a huge pull then bang. IOW she was probably accelerating her body into this wall.
Scull fracture. That's quite major.
Geez, who knew backstroke was so dangerous Quite frankly, everybody was surprised to realize the gravity of this injury. That female was nearly 6feet tall. Well built National level. 1:03 over 100m back. After all she just crashed into a wall. But since she wasn't at all expecting the wall maybe she gave a huge pull then bang. IOW she was probably accelerating her body into this wall.
Scull fracture. That's quite major.