Believe it or not, the photo isn’t that far off. It was toward the end of the WOD and we had box jumps to do – and I was pretty exhausted already – I’d only really been back at it for a couple of weeks. I caught my toe on the way up just as I was about to start coming down. So rather than jam my shin into the box, I used the leg that had landed right to push off – big mistake. That made my already off-kilter balance even worse and I basically swan-dived from the top of the box and did a half belly flop, pinning my right arm under my rib cage as I landed with a crunch.
Yep. Crunch. I got up really slowly. And i actually finished the workout with step ups rather than jumping any more. I had broken my ribs before, so i knew what it felt like. This felt damn familiar. I decided to get it checked out by my family doctor rather than bother the ER with it, and without the need for an x-ray, the doctor confirmed I had at the very least cracked one or two ribs. Lovely.
But that didn’t stop me from working out. I simply scaled my workouts as well as I could.
