I am so sorry! I hope you heal up well.My 5K PR attempt turned into a DNF. Long story short-ish..... On record pace through 2.5 miles on the trails I have run literally hundreds of times. More people than usual taking Thanksgiving walks, runs, and rides. Pass a family going the other direction with a couple of dogs, and one of them leaps across the trail (about 6 feet wide) and bites me on the hand. Owner did not lose control of the (too long) leash and claims I'm not hurt as the blood drips down my hand and puddles on the dirt in front of her. Never even apologizes, but adult son is cool and gives me all the contact info, just in case, and says dog is up-to-date with rabies shots.
I'm mad and just to make them feel bad and worry (I'm not proud of this moment), I tell them I will make sure their vicious dog is put down by the County animal control office; what I'm thinking at the time is that their beautiful dog may need some obedience training, but its the owner that needs..... As Buckwheat used to say in the old Our Gang comedies, "Satan get behind me, and don't push!"
In spite of a decent flow of blood, it turned out to be one relatively small puncture wound, not bad enough (I hope) to spend my Thanksgiving in an emergency department full of covid patients. I know many of you have had a similar experience, many worse than mine, but it was a first for me in thousands of miles of running.
I will choose to be Thankful that the bite was not worse and that it will not stop me from trail running in a couple of days. I'll make another PR attempt on Sunday or Monday and still call it a Thanksgiving Turkey Trot. 2020 has just been that kind of year.
My 5K PR attempt turned into a DNF. Long story short-ish..... On record pace through 2.5 miles on the trails I have run literally hundreds of times. More people than usual taking Thanksgiving walks, runs, and rides. Pass a family going the other direction with a couple of dogs, and one of them leaps across the trail (about 6 feet wide) and bites me on the hand. Owner did not lose control of the (too long) leash and claims I'm not hurt as the blood drips down my hand and puddles on the dirt in front of her. Never even apologizes, but adult son is cool and gives me all the contact info, just in case, and says dog is up-to-date with rabies shots.
I'm mad and just to make them feel bad and worry (I'm not proud of this moment), I tell them I will make sure their vicious dog is put down by the County animal control office; what I'm thinking at the time is that their beautiful dog may need some obedience training, but its the owner that needs..... As Buckwheat used to say in the old Our Gang comedies, "Satan get behind me, and don't push!"
In spite of a decent flow of blood, it turned out to be one relatively small puncture wound, not bad enough (I hope) to spend my Thanksgiving in an emergency department full of covid patients. I know many of you have had a similar experience, many worse than mine, but it was a first for me in thousands of miles of running.
I will choose to be Thankful that the bite was not worse and that it will not stop me from trail running in a couple of days. I'll make another PR attempt on Sunday or Monday and still call it a Thanksgiving Turkey Trot. 2020 has just been that kind of year.
Thanks; that sounds like good advice. I remember your post about your pre-marathon experience and just could not get my head around how incredibly frustrating that would have been. So far I have just put a lot of antibiotic cream on it. I'll watch it pretty closely and if it shows any signs of infection I'll head over to the clinic. Although (or maybe because) I spent my entire career in hospitals (from morgue attendant in high school to VP Operations mid career to my own consulting firm) I try to limit what drugs I put into my system. Now that I'm in my 60's I get a flu shot and I'll be one of the first in line for a covid vaccination, but I refuse to take an aspirin or an Advil. Doesn't really make logical sense, but that's me.So sorry to hear that happened! I had almost the same thing happen to me on my last training run 3 days before the Chicago Marathon a couple of years ago. One caution I’ll pass along from my experience is to be careful of the precautionary antibiotics the doctors will want you to take “just to be safe”. One of their preferred choices, I think Cipro/ciprofloxacin, has a known possible side effect of ruptured Achilles tendons. I made a deal with the doctors to fill the prescriptions, but hold off taking them unless I started showing signs of infection. Dog bites tend to be pretty clean, though, so fingers crossed you heal up quickly and easily!
I ran 2 miles on Sunday, walked 3 on Monday, and ate my weight in sugar cookies today. I’m signed up for the virtual Dopey.I've been slacking a lot recently. Traditionally I'd do a Turkey Trot today, so most of the family went out on a 5k-ish run. I made it a mile before dropping to a walk for the rest of it. I think I've got a lot of work to do before April.
DH and I completed our 2020 Virtual Peachtree Road Race on the Lake Hartwell Dam this morning! Hoping 2021’s race will be back in Atlanta
I'm happy with the race. It was just nice to be racing again, even if I wasn't actually "racing!"