18kms (and eating gravel!)

Ladies and Gentlmen - first the good news. I ran 18kms tonight! Happy, happy me - especially considering what happened during the run!

The not-so-good news is that I took my first major swan dive tonight. I got to about 10kms and didn't lift my foot high enough to clear an uneven cement slab on the pavement... consequently, I fell flat on my face and was going too fast to get both hands out infront of me. Managed to get one hand out which I promptly skinned, before landing squarely on my chin and splitting it open. It was all quite spectacular there for a moment - chins must be like head wounds - they bleed spectacularly even when it's a minor wound because there was blood down my face, my chest and through my hand. Anyway, after a brief ten minute stop and much mopping up of chinny chin chin I was more annoyed at the fact that I thought I'd ruined our 18km effort than the fact that not only did I take a chunk out of my face, I have a job interview tomorrow and I'm now going to have to go to that with steri-strips on my face and no doubt some fantastic bruising that has yet to appear.

I'm okay now, but the jarring of it means that I can feel the roots of all my bottom teeth and the whole area is quietly throbbing to itself. Lucky for me, my mother is a nurse and so I got her to pick all the gravel out of it. Luckily it didnt need stitches, so she just pulled it closed and fixed it there.

I got back to the shop and after making sure I was okay, we had a nice round of amusing I-remember-when stories about falling arse over tit while running. Made me feel better anyway (and less like a giant klutz for not picking my feet up more!) I'm still no where near competing with Schultzy's 18 stitches at the Lest We Forget Run - and at least I was running at the time ;)

I went and had my 'cellular analysis' done today - interesting stuff - apparently, my muscle mass is the best she's seen in ages... 97.2% active or something.... the down side is that apparently, I still need to lose 13kgs! 13kgs! Quite where I'm going to lose 13 kgs from, I don't know... five or six, fair enough. But 13 seems a little excessive! I think I'll just carry on with the healthy eating and see where I end up. I'm sooo not going to starve myself just to hit a certain number. Bah!

Anyway, I'm going to bed. My chin is throbbing.

18kms! Woo!

Night.