Local Runner Eats It
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A local runner ate it this morning, Dumb Runner has learned.
Alfred Yankovic, 28, was running around 8 a.m. on a cinder path when the incident occurred. Witnesses described Yankovic’s eating it as sudden and violent.
“I barely noticed the guy until he ate it,” said one source, who requested anonymity. “One minute, everything is nice and quiet and normal; the next, this dude stumbles, trips, and falls. Hard. Face first!”
“I was, like, Oh my God, that guy just totally ate it.”
After eating it, witnesses said, Yankovic stood up, examined his forearms and knees, looked around, and resumed his run. The cause remains unknown.
Eating it accounts for a surprising number of total running injuries, according to experts.
“When most people think of running injuries, they think of things like plantar fasciitis, stress fractures, and iliotibial band syndrome,” said Dr. Dee Mentoh, a specialist in sports medicine. “In fact, ‘eating it’—what doctors call ‘sudden involuntary surface ingestion’—accounts for a full one-third of such cases.”
Reached for comment, Yankovic said he was “scratched up pretty good” and sore.
“I really ate it,” he said.
