Each week she leads favoured friends on a ramble, despite a physical awkwardness that caused her on one occasion to break her ankle while stumbling over a host's threshold.

Even small forces could produce torques able to break the ankle or knee, and spiral fractures of the calf were common.

If a person hits with the arch or the ball of the foot, then that can injure the foot or break an ankle.

She has won three times on the trot up to 2012 but broke her ankle here in 2008.

They were dangerous tackles that could have broken the ankles of his opponents.