I'm not getting any younger

I've started playing on an intramural flag football team this fall. I play on a men's team and a co-ed team. Both teams are pretty good - our co-ed team won 50-0 last week - and I'm having fun, but I'm definitely not getting any younger. Oh I'm in good condition, just my body isn't fairing as well as it used to.

The men's team plays at 6 p.m. Sunday's then the co-ed is an hour later, which is nice because it only takes up one day and the weekends are ideal. However, by about the middle of the co-ed game I'm usually pretty beat up. During the first half of the men's game two weeks ago I pulled a muscle in my back that nagged me for the rest of the evening, but I still managed to have an interception in the men's game then two touchdowns in co-ed.

However, the next few days I felt like I was 60 years old because my body was sore all over. I'm talking sore just to sit down the toilet. By Thursay I was okay and ready for last week's but again in the first half of the men's game I pulled a muscle in my hip, which made it hard to run at full speed, but I was okay to play in the co-ed. About three plays into the co-ed game a girl fell in front of me when I was running with the ball and her head went right into my leg and pulled my quad muscle. Luckily the game was a blowout and the defense scored three times so I didn't have to do much running.

The soreness was back all over again, but after some ice and a dip in the cold pool - in our training room we have a pool that is set at 55 degrees all the time, as well as one set to 115 - and I finally thought I was over it going into this weekend...

Yesterday I'm playing golf with my old roommate Adam and a few of his co-workers. On the first hole, one of the guys duffed his shot past me and I thought he was done so I started walking onto the fairway to hit my ball. I happened to glance to my right, only to see him in the top of his backswing. I tried to hightail it out of the way, but I couldn't move fast enough and he hit me with a line drive right about my ankle. Somehow I managed to walk the next 17 holes and shoot 83 along the way with some shots left on the course.

Unfortunately my left ankle and most of the ligaments in my lower leg hurt like hell and I'm having trouble walking on it. It's swollen up pretty big and it hurts even worse when I ice it, but I know that's helping the swelling. Right now I would list myself as doubtful for the games, which wouldn't be a bad thing because I would get to spend some time with my lady friend.