OUCH #1

So a friend of mine who is an outstanding masters runner was training for the Western States 100 about 6 or 7 years ago. They have a Memorial weekend training "camp" where you can go and run parts of the course each day. So he is cruising along and takes a fall. Along the trail they had cut some large saplings (a couple of inches in diameter) but left the stumps sticking up.

Can you see where this is going?

He falls on the stumps and puts one through his quadricep muscle. OUCH!!! The people with him help him and get him to the hospital. The doctor comes in and while he is working on my friend, the doctor is griping how much he hates the Western States 100 and the runners because he tried to deny them access on part of the trail that crosses the corner of his land but couldn't do it because of the historic nature of the race (or something like that). So the whole time my friend is wondering if this doctor was going to give 100% to him. Fortunately, the DR did.
With the help of a great sports massage therapist (Tony Gilbert, if you are ever in the Bay Area this is the guy to see. He is in San Mateo and his company is Athletes Edge.) he was able to eliminate pretty much all of the scar tissue. When he first saw Tony, the wounded area was this large, hard lump. When he was done, you couldn't even feel any scar tissue.

Then in 2002 (@52 years old) he won a trail marathon that he had won 20 years earlier in almost the exact same time.