Fit to run by Chris_J

Early Friday morning it snowed here in south Essex, not much snow just a couple of inches.  During the day some of it melted and then froze again over night making all the paths and roads in our small town very slippery.  Saturday morning I walked to the local shops for the newspapers and bread, I was surprised to see none of the paths had been cleared and not even had a sprinkling of rock salt.  Even the paths near the shops hadn't been treated.  After getting the newspapers I went to walk over a zebra crossing and slipped over landing heavily on my right hip and arm.  A large puddle on the path leading to the zebra crossing had frozen over night making it impossibly slippery.  The cars that had stopped to let me cross the road saw that I wasn't going to be going across the road for a while and drove off.  Yep no one stopped to help me and see if I was ok.  I struggled to my feet shaken and sore and gingerly walked back home.  The more I thought about it the more angry I became, I would've expected our council to have at the very least put grit down by a zebra crossing wouldn't you?  This anger was compounded when I met an older lady walking slowly back to her pensioner's flat.  She told me that she'd called the council to ask when they'd be putting grit outside the flats and was told in no uncertain terms they had a lot of pensioners places in the borough and hers would get done in due course! 

I carried on with my plan to visit the gym Saturday morning, I think I was hoping that I could fool my body into forgetting the fall.  I'm still not sure if that was the right thing to do but I did manage to stay there for 90 minutes using the cross trainer and step machine.  I'm pleased with myself that I did go to the gym because after a fitful night's sleep last night I've spent most of today nursing an extremely sore arm, shoulder, elbow and to a lesser extent hip (maybe the hip benefited from the extra padding in that area), and I doubt very much whether I'll be visiting the gym again before Christmas.  All the time there's this snow and ice on the paths I know I will not be out jogging either.

On the bright side, I saw all the new machines our gym had invested in for the new year and look forward to trying them out.  Maybe I'll even try out their new drywave massage bed too, I think I've earned a massage. 

I've decided to write to our local MP, our counciler and the local paper about the state of the paths this weekend afterall if I'd been a pensioner I probably would've broken bones in that fall maybe even a hip and that is unacceptable.  Now I've got that all off my chest I feel much better.  Thanks for listening.