Dumbest running injury ever: Pointy tree branch vs. my ponytail

Ha! Well better your ponytail than your head. That could've hurt.

Ha ha! I can just see that happening and thinking WTF? as it grabbed your hair.

No experience with ponytails, BUT I have quips with these plant jutting out into the sidewalks.

I really wish the someone would take care of some of the trees sticking out into the sidewalks in my area. It's like I have to do a hurdle over the sidewalk every time I run there. It makes it worse since it's next to a busy traffic and I have to step out on the road to avoid it. I'm almost thinking about taking some time over the weekend and sawing them down! /rantover

This reminds me of a horrifying scene I saw recently in the TV-series Bomb Girls (on Netflix).  A gal is distracted and her head gets too close to the giant hook hanging from the ceiling, which promptly embeds itself in her scalp and pulls it away.  So, yeah... be careful out there.

Believe it or not, but during a race this spring I had a tree branch go into my mouth and stop me dead in my tracks. My jaw was sore for a day. Couldn't chew that evening. I happened to look down (at a map) while running and BAM! No one would have believed it except I had a race partner who witnessed it and I had a scratch above my top lip and gouge in my mouth. Would have preferred the hair. :-)

One of my pet peeves are some of my neighbors who apparently can't spare 15 minutes to prune their trees to allow an adult to walk under their trees without ducking. I am contemplating asking the people across the street if they will allow me trim their tree. The tree is in front of the church which they pastor, and is on the their 2-3 acre lot.They often time have parishioners doing yard work, so I don't think they'll mind.

Suffered a similar injury a couple weeks ago... mowing under a tree, and didn't quite duck far enough. Hit the stub where I had pruned a nickle sized limb. Hit it pretty damn hard... drew blood, and left a nice gouge in my scalp... should have wore my bike helmet!

Edited by jeetkevdo 2013-08-08 8:19 PM

Tree branches are dangerous!!

This winter I managed to poke both my eyes on the same run by two different branches. There was some ice making them hang down lower than usual. Lucky they just sort of scraped across and not poked in!! But I was mostly blind on the way home.

Don't mean to laugh, but well, I am. You have to admit that it was kind of funny since you didn't get injured. Glad that it only resulted in "wounded pride"