My whippet ran at breakneck speed into my leg.

Yes dogs heads seem to be made of steel...not had a dog run into me for years...my GSD was a devil for it and knocked me down several times, but I learned with her that she had a route to run and I had to move otherwise she kept on her route and I ended up on my backside.... two years ago while out walking with several friends and their dogs we all had a 'laugh' when my friends BC ran into her and my friend complained the rest of the walk, everyone was teasing her saying she was a wimp and think about the poor dog........ the next week my friends leg was black and blue and it hurt for weeks, told her to go and get it checked out and she had a hairline fracture.... so rest, take pain killers and if it continues to hurt after a day or two get it checked out, don't suffer....my guess is Rosie is fine!

 

sounds about right! Dogs........ what would we do without them!

 

Sally our EBT did this to me and also injured my Knee I ended up in a cast for several weeks

 

As JudyN says, if you hold your position, most will whisker past you. If in pursuit of something though, they may not see obstacles - I've had one run full tilt into a perfectly obvious oak tree when chasing a rabbit (rabbit dived into a hole between the roots) and another ran into the base of a pylon. I thought both were dead at the time, but luckily not. Other breeds will body-slam you, and so this only applies to sighthounds and lurchers.

I'm sorry about your knee, and if you can get it looked at/X rayed, it would be a good idea.

 

One time a group of Whippet owners were talking, all agreed that staying still when they run towards you is the best. But one lady that had a deerhound as well commented 'if you think it takes courage staying still with a Whippet heading towards you imagine it with a Deerhound at full speed straight on to you'. But yes she agreed that though it's hard to do staying is the best.