Too much, too soon?

I played my first soccer game post injury and surgery yesterday. Thankfully it was an "easier" game. Easy in that our team had control of the ball almost the whole time and the other team only had about 2 shots on goal. I was playing defense, so the minimal ball handling was good for me. The pivoting and leg stretching to trap the ball, not as good. My knee is a little swollen and sore today, so I'm hoping I can make it through the few games of bowling this evening at Ad League Bowling.

Yes, soccer, bowling, running, yoga. Those are the activities I do in a typical week. I went to yoga again this morning. And again, the teacher complimented my feet. He's working on remembering my name, today he recalled it as "Heather with the beautiful feet". Considering my siblings called my "freak toes" for the longest time, because of how little my little toes are, I'm going to like anyone that calls my feet beautiful. The yoga class is challenging and leaves me feeling incredibly calm and relaxed. My master plan is to do yoga for an hour and then run. Since I keep forgetting to grab breakfast as I leave the house, the running portion of my workout hasn't been getting fulfilled. But as my body gets used to yoga again, running after will get easier with time. Of course, in order to get there, I'm going to need to keep going to the gym in the morning. But with how good I've felt coming into work after, I'm going to try as hard as I can to continue.

But, back to the point of this post... The post soccer soreness has me thinking that perhaps I'm trying to take on too much. I've set myself some lofty goals for the next year. But perhaps, I need to just see how things go. That's sort of my plan. There are races I want to run, but I'm not signing up, yet, because I want to make sure that I can do it. But I'm starting to wonder if I need to give my body some time to get used to the "short" distances before I jump into mid-long distance training. I'm trying to get into the mindset that my body might not be able to handle another marathon. It's a very real possibility. Of course, I won't know unless I try. But perhaps I should save the trying for another year and keep pushing myself at a comfortable pace without going overboard. I want to be able to run/do activity without residual knee pain, so whatever I have to do (or not do) to get there is what I need to focus on.