I was going to do a swim this morning, however, when I got up I noticed that it wasn’t raining.  We have been having morning rain lately.  So I decided to put on my running gear and take off running.  I wanted to work on lengthening my stride since my knee has held up on the last couple runs.  I am really slow so I hoped that I could lengthen my stride to cover more distance for each step.  So I am feeling pretty good as a start out my run.  I feel a little low grade knee pain, but that is normal for me.  I look at my Garmin and I notice that my pace is better than normal.  I normally have a choppier stride because I favor my bad knee.  My right hip also gets kind of sore since I am compensating for my bad knee.  In short, I have bad running form.  Anyway, about half way through my run it starts to rain.  In fact, it begins to come down fairly heavy.  Being the meat head that I am I figure I may as well keep going because I am already wet.  Well, being a bit over-confident about my knee, I take my long strides and I hit one of the rectangular diamond plate covers on the sidewalk.  Of course, it is my left leg (my bad side) that hits it and I begin to slide.  Next my knee gets a sharp pain and I go down pretty hard.  It was about 5:20am and there wasn’t anyone around so nobody got to enjoy the free entertainment.  It was, however, one of those YouTube moments.  You know… old guys goes down like a buffoon.  The good news is that my pride wasn’t hurt too much because there wasn’t any witnesses.  The bad news is I got some cool road rash on my elbows from trying to avoid a face plant.  My knee also hurts like hell!

Here is a video of a guy who had a similar experience…