Yesterday was my handstand workout (I'm doing workouts one week later than their posting). I was finishing up with the 10 minutes of handstand wall runs, resting when necessary (and it was frequently necessary); it was coming up to the end of the 10 minutes, so I made an extra effort to get up and stay up. I was really fatigued, but I stayed there until the timer beeped, and with relief started to walk my legs down the wall when my shoe caught on a little hat hook on the door!!
I shook my foot around a bit to loosen it: nothing. I pushed up on my arms as hard as I could to give me some slack: no joy there, either. Big problem. I knew the worst thing would be to take the weight off my arms, making the shoe slide even more firmly onto the hook, but I couldn't help it, my arms were too fatigued. So I just hung there, strung up like a Christmas turkey, snickering a bit at how funny it must look.
I was worried about reaching up and trying to undo my shoe in case the laces broke while I was inverted and I cracked my back or head on the hard floor. I tried to see if I had the flexibility to bring one leg down into a kind wall split to take some of my weight (I didn't have).
I hung there a bit longer, considering the situation (closest neighbours more than a kilometre away, husband away on a work trip, kids needing to be picked up from school) when thankfully, my lace snapped and I came crashing down. Luckily, the hook had only skewered through about a third of the lace, so it was easier to break. If it had looped around the full lace, I may still be there now. :shock:
I still get the giggles thinking of it.
So, moral of the story, CHECK the WALL you are HSing against and make sure you keep clear of hooks! :wink:
