Thanks, everyone!
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Originally Posted by tkinsley
Diane, try thinking about pushing your knees OUT while you're going down into your squat. It helps. Also play w your stance; perhaps you need to be slightly wider/narrower or have your toes angled out more.
Another thing--don't overthink it. Paralysis by analysis=no bueno.
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Thanks for the tips! Oh, yeah, overthinking/analyzing is one of my major character flaws. You'd think I'd be a genius by now. *snort*
This week's eats averages:
Calories..........1891
Fat..................72.7g.... .34%
Protein...........140.5g.....2 9%
Carbs.............173.3g.....3 7%
Fiber................29.6g
So, today hubby had a flat on the trailer and called me to bring him a tire. I finally found the requested tire up the hill in his piles of crap and was walking down the hill, carrying the tire in one hand while talking to hubby on my iPhone with the other one. Got partway down and decided, hmm, I should just roll this puppy, carefully aimed, of course, the rest of the way down the hill. I get the tire rolling beautifully (no small feat with the gullies and giant rocks sticking out on the way down) and it hits EXACTLY where I'd planned. As I admired my incredible tire-rolling skills, I ceased to watch where I was walking. Suddenly, I'm still moving forward but my foot is firmly stuck to the ground. I'm falling. I feel the momentum start to carry away my much-loved and very expensive iPhone. Ack! Everything proceeds in slow motion as I think through the problem. Solution? Screw doing anything to save my body. Put every ounce of energy into saving the iPhone. I'll heal but the iPhone, not so much. The Force ends up taking away my iPhone anyway and I watched it hit and bounce and tumble endlessly down the hill, from rock to rock. *sigh* After a few moments of lamenting the assured loss of my iPhone, I realize I had already hit the ground myself. Repeatedly.
My foot had caught under a piece of lumber jammed between a couple of rocks -- that had caused the initial spill. It might have been a fairly light spill had I not tried to throw myself onto the rocks to soften the iPhone's landing. I hit and bounced and tumbled, arms raised in a desperate attempt to catch the phone rather than in front of me to break my fall. Ended up with a bit of skin missing here and there, plus a twisted right hip, right knee, right ankle, and right wrist. I'm sure I won't know how bad it is until tomorrow -- you know how things either worsen or improve overnight. I had a bag of frozen Chinese stir-fry veggies on my right ass off and on this afternoon but we'll see what tomorrow brings.
Oh, and after all of that, my iPhone is fine.
OMG she is SO right!!! 
