First Physical Ailment of the Campaign

I now have my first physical malady of my Fall marathon training, and it didn't even come from running! Every Thursday night over the summer - usually from June until mid-September - I play volleyball at my friend's place down by the mighty Susquehanna River. He has a sand volleyball court at his cabin. It's mostly friends from high school, and none of us are accomplished players. It's just for fun and a little friendly competition. This past Thursday, I dove for a ball with my left arm extended and landed hard on my left side on a packed down patch of sand. Ouch! It knocked the wind out of me for a second, and my first thought was that I may have cracked a rib. I got up and immediately starting take deep breaths to see if I was capable of doing so. I didn't have any piercing pain, but the area was sore the rest of the night. It bothered me off and on Friday night when I was running, and it is really sore today. I think that I just bruised a rib and that should heal in a short time. It's just a little uncomfortable. I just thought that it was kind of funny that I hurt myself while playing volleyball and not while I was running. It just goes to show that you need to be careful what you do when you get old.