Ahhh, the pain!

I hate that saying "no pain, no gain"...I certainly can gain quite painlessly.  What?  That's not what it means you say?  Dang!  Well in that case...I certainly am a huge wuss when it comes to the pain from working out, I hate it.  I can hurt myself, give birth with no meds, whatever, no problem.  But give me sore muscles from working out and I just want to curl up in a ball and cry for my mommy.  I'm not sure what's different about it, it just is and I don't like it.  I realize that it's a necessary evil (at least at first), but I still don't like it. 

So I've decided that if this week is any indication, I've either become hopelessly out of shape, OR I'm making some gains with the small amount of running I've been doing.  With the except of Tuesday when I did a ton of errands, I have gone walking every day this week for 20-30 minutes each time, with some short stretches of running thrown in here and there.  I've been doing all of it wearing my Vibram's.

I'd read a lot of websites about barefoot running and they all cautioned against doing too much too soon when you start.  But I *thought* I was pretty used to walking barefoot since I hardly wear shoes around the house, and I've gone on 20-ish minute walks in them before, and worn them on the elliptical, as well as worn them out walking around stores or the mall.  Never had anything more than a bit of calf soreness before.  Plus my walks this week haven't been huge calorie burners, even with the running thrown in I've barely broken a sweat.

But for some reason, I am sore!  Not all the time, just when I stand up after sitting or when I climb the stairs.  I swear I must look like some hobbling arthritic old woman.  It's not like any other pain I've felt from exercise, this pain is way up high at the tops of my thighs and in my hip joints.  It doesn't hurt much while I'm walking/running, just all the rest of the time.

I don't know if it's from doing too much too soon barefoot, or if my form is wrong for being barefoot, or if it's just plain that I'm a 30-something fat woman trying to run for the first time in her life.  With my luck, it's proabably all of the above.