Running - Take 2

Yesterday was Eid (the end of Ramadan).  My Mom and her siblings celebrate this.  It involves a lot of eating.  After work I took the GO Train and headed to Camilla's house.  I hung out there and played with the boys while she got ready.  We then picked my Mom up and headed to one Uncle's house for dinner #1.  I had chicken, rice, pasta salad, taco salad, salmon and veggies and a dinner roll.  For dessert I had a small piece of cheesecake.  After a bit of a visit we headed to another Uncle's house for dinner #2.  I had chicken curry and roti and skipped dessert.  My contribution to the feasts were start shaped sugar cookies with "Eid Mubarak" on it.  I forgot to take pictures so you'll just have to imagine it.  I also had made hot cross buns, as my parents are off to Australia today and I wanted to give them something for the loooooong plane ride.
After all that eating I knew that I would need to work it off today.  I woke up this morning though to a lot of pain.  My monthly friend had arrived.  It hurt much more than usual.  I got out of bed at 7:30 and came downstairs to send Raju up to the bed (he was out last night and slept on the couch).  I took my vitamins, pain pill and had some breakfast and fully intended to go running after the pain subsided.  I ended up curling up in the blanket on the couch and dozed in and out of sleep until 11:00a.m.  I stayed on the couch and watched Raju play video games and then finally got up and ate lunch.  At 1:00p.m. the cramps returned full force and even worse than this morning.  I don't normally like to take more than 1 pain pill a day but I couldn't help it and took another.  I lay down on my bed with the heating pad and waited to feel better.  Raju headed off to an interview and I spoke to my Mom to wish her a safe trip.  Finally I felt a bit better so headed out for a walk/run.  I did the same route (which is approx. 6km in total) and did a combination....3 min. walk and then 3 min. run.  This worked better than the first time out  (where I tried to run as long as possible) but I still felt that running for 3 minutes at a time was hard.  I also felt like I was running very slowly.  I did get a chance to take my new running shoes out for a spin.  They felt good, but were blindingly white in the sun.  I'll have to wear them a lot more to get them dirty.
It is quite nice outside and I feel like I should enjoy it more, but the run/walk has taken a bit out of me, so I think I'm going to curl up on the couch again and watch TV and have a really lazy rest of the day.