It's official

I officially suck at running. I went this morning with Bobie & Sheena to do a practice run in preparation for the 5k that we're doing on the 4th of July. I've only ever run on the treadmill. Never outside on a hard surface. We decided to run the track at Hunter High School. I made it around 1 1/2 times and then my feet cramped up and my toes started to tingle. What the heck? I actually couldn't even really feel the bottom of my feet or my toes. They were that numb and it hurt. That hasn't happened for months. It especially hasn't happened since I got my fancy new shoes. I know that I have a pretty high tolerance for pain and when I've been running on the treadmill it's hurt before, but I've been able to walk the cramps out. I can usually "fake" my way through anything. I didn't feel like I could even do that today. It was extremely frustrating. I mean, I've had 3 kids without any pain medicine and I've made it through that just fine. In fact, I didn't ever think that it was so bad that I couldn't take it. These foot cramps were very debilitating.

I have only been running on the treadmill and there have been times when I've had some cramping in my feet, but nothing that I couldn't deal with. Certainly, nothing this bad for months. I can go for a good 30+ minutes without any trouble. I will admit that for the past 3 weeks I've only run on an average of 3 times a week. I've let it slide since school let out. Today was just unexpected and very frustrating. I think that I should have done just fine. It's not like I'm at the beginning of all of this. This wasn't the first time I've ran. I feel like a real baby because I really do run and for a longer period of time than 7 minutes. I think that it's finally time for me to go to Salt Lake Running Co. and get them to assess me.