Prone to Injury...

So, my wife is concerned that my participation in sports has a tendency to result in personal injury to my person.  According to her records, this happens 90% of the time that I participate in a group sport.  Well, sometimes it feels hard to contradict her, especially given my own stubbornness when it comes to work outs and sports.

As a pair of examples, on Feb. 2nd, I went on a run down a path I used to go on back in high school.  I convinced myself that I had to go just as far as I did back then, even though I started from home and ran to the start point by my old high school, adding a couple miles to the distance.  I ended up on this workout for over an hour and a half and limping for a couple days, even though I knew 30 minutes in that I should cut my workout short.

New example, this one from tonight, I went down to play basketball at church (does that count for organized sports, by the way? Since we play the other wards and have the whole tournament thing?)  Anyway, not even 7 cumulative points into the first game, I got conked on the nose by the elbow of one of the youth we let practice with us.  I am now sporting a small cut on my nose (maybe a 1/2 cm in length) and had to tend to a bloody nose.  In the third game, I hit something with my foot (wall?  ball? ...person?) and a few minutes later, I had this odd feeling that my toe was bleeding.  I figured, 'hey, I haven't broken a toe nail enough to do that in years!  I'm imaging things.'  Come home and check it out..yeah, I cracked my toenail.  Funny thing is, the last time I did that was ALSO playing church basketball on that very same court.

So, yeah, Carmen wants me to stop playing sports so I'll stop injuring myself and also not die.

:)