This past Saturday I had the opportunity to experience the 5k Foam Fest. I will do a proper recap post on this experience later this week (or as soon as their photogs get their pics online…cause I didn’t want to ruin any of my good cameras). But what I did want to share with you, my beautiful readers, was how the bounce house beat me up. 😉
So, the very first bounce house obstacle in the race was this thing called the Stumpy Jumper. First of all, I was excited to play in a bounce house as an adult. Second, it had foam in it as well. Third, it had obstacles called stumps. It looked like this:
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So as soon as I hopped into the Stumpy Jumper, I decided it’d be fun to start bouncing. I began my first jump. I was excited. Adrenalin was pumping in me. On the downward motion, my left foot didn’t meet the bounce house floor. No, I happened to find a hole in the bounce house floor where a stumpy thingy was supposed to be. My brain was expecting to bounce. My body was expecting a bounce. What happened instead was my left foot colliding with the ground which was about 1.5 foot lower. Thankfully (I think) I landed flat-footed. It sent a sharp shooting pain through my ankle. I toughed it up, got out of the Stumpy Jumper and started to walk it off.
Let me just preface this: I had already managed to be soaked from the shoulders down from a tube crossing earlier (which was the first water obstacle). So I was cold already. My foot pain didn’t last after I started walking. I think I felt it more in my hip than anything.
I finished the race…freezing cold. But still had a blast. Once I was changed into dry clothes, I began to warm up. I ran some errands on my way home. No pain whatsoever happening in my foot. I made it home, took a shower and began catching up on all of my social media. About an hour after my shower, the arch of my left foot started to tighten up. I thought it was starting to get a cramp in it, so I started massaging my arch. Looking back now, the cold probably saved me and hurt me more than had I been warm. My body wouldn’t have been in survival mode trying to keep me warm. So in a sense, the cold was already “icing my injury” but it also gave me a false sense of not being injured.
And then the most terrible pain I can recall in my lifetime started. Y’all it was awful. It brought tears. I took some ibuprofen. And started heating/icing cycles immediately. It took about 2 hours for the pain to mostly subside. There was no discoloration. Very little swelling.
Cue Sunday, it’s been mostly stiff but still sore if I move it side to side or flex or point. It’s only tolerable to keep it in the flat-footed position. I can now see some swelling below my ankle bone on the outside and just a little bit of discoloration. I’ll continue my ibuprofen and icing/heating cycles until I can slowly work on more range of motion (which I’m not looking forward to, but is a big necessity in the rehab process).
So, that’s how the bounce house = 1 and Me = 0
Have you ever stepped in a hole not knowing the hole was there?
Poor thing! I hope you are feeling better today! XOXO That run looks like a blast though (minus getting hurt)
ooh, sounds painful. I actually broke my ankle by stepping in a hole, kind of. I was going down steps and the bottom of the steps was uneven, so I anticipated the ground being higher than it was. I stepped down and twisted my ankle and fell over, and it broke!
Oh no! I hope you start feeling better soon! That is the worst. Can’t wait to read about the rest of the 5k though 🙂
Hope you are feeling better soon! This scares me, I’m running my first mud run in June, luckily my next half isn’t until August. Praying I don’t get injured.
Oh my goodness! I’m not sure I have ever heard of a more traumatizing bouncy house experience! Hopefully you heal quickly! 🙂
Holy cow, Taylor! That’s crazy, and I’m sure that really hurt. Hope you feel better. That was one thing I was so worried about when Brandon wanted to join in on a tough mudder run. All those obstacles, bear crawls and dredging through mud, yeah he’d be hurting too. Sorry, hun, feel better. xo
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O no! I hope it feels better soon…and I hope you have some cute flats to wear while you heal! I can’t wait for the full recap!
-AJ
FitTravelerAJ.com
That sucks that you got injured! 🙁 I do have to say, though, that it does look like a blast. I love races–regular road races and adventure races. If I ever see a foam fest coming to town, I’m going to sign up–and heed your warning. Hope you feel better soon!!
Oh no! I hope you feel better!
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Oh that stinks! Sorry you got hurt. Take it easy. A bunch of my friends are doing the MS MuckFest this weekend and I’m nervous for them!! Lots of mud.
Ouch girl that’s no fun! Hope it feels better soon!
Oh, no! The pictures looked all fun until you said what happened. OUCH!
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So when I first saw this post, I was thinking how fun a bounce house sounding…then I actually read it. Hope your leg feels better! You’ll beat it next time 🙂
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