It was bound to happen: the first tweeting-while-running injury.
The casuality involving the self-involved Twitter phenomenon happened in Great Britain. Here are the first few paragraphs from the London Guardian:
Office worker Mr Coleman, 23, was 'tweeting' to his followers on his Blackberry while jogging to work when he cracked his head on a heavy low-hanging branch.
The force of the impact sent the dazed runner crashing to the pavement and left him with a badly bruised black eye.
Now Mr Coleman has vowed to keep his phone in his pocket while jogging the three miles from his home in St.Andrews, Bristol to work."I guess you could say I feel a right Twit," he said.
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It's bad enough that I passed a handful of runners yakking on their cell phones during a trail half marathon I ran in the Bay Area last weekend. Now, we have to put up with texting? Can't you just, like, disconnect for an hour or so and live with your own thoughts on a meditative run?
