Injury Recovery Question

So, I'm relativly new here so lets give some background

I have been a swim coach for about 7 years (swimming runs in the family) I never swam competitivly myself and at one point realized i was waaaaay overweight.

I've done well, started swimming myself, lost quite a bit of that extra (still some to go... I'm 5'7 and 57 kilos or 125 pounds) Last year I took up running as well, and I love it it's great.

I moved to Belgium in August of 2006, and joined a running club here. I train about 3 times a week about 10 K each practice, with a speed pratice being one of those three.

I suffered an interesting and confusing injury last sunday. The friday before that sunday i was at training and had the strange sensation of one of my feet falling asleep, so I promptly stopped and undid my shoelaces a little and continued on.... however my foot did not wake up, after about 8 K I just stopped and called my bf to come pick me up where I was.

It really was like running on a stump. and it had progressed so that both feet were asleep. When I stopped I bent over and felt that my lower calfs/ankle were rock hard!!!

Sunday I had planned to run a half marathon (first one ever... had only done 12-15 K's before that, but have run 20 in practice) but I had to drop out after 5 K because of the same calf ankle foot asleep problem.

Anyway when I awoke on monday my calfs were swollen and still hard, so I did not run this past week. The swelling has gone down, and left a small amount of bruising in my feet, but now i'm worried.

How should I approach going back to training? and what the heck could it have been?

I have no idea but can only say Go to the dr ASAP -- Sounds pretty serious to me and if there are bruises could be stress fx or blood clots

Something is very wrong, as dbacker says, get to a doctor,  Sounds like a circulatory problems.

Let us know what you find out and how you are doing.

Firstly you need to see a doctor to rule out anything serious. However when I was pregnant with my third child I had a similar experience where one whole leg went numb and both legs swollen and hard. Apparently the extra weight I was carring had pinched a nerve and I had tempory paralysis. I thought it was a stoke and was very scared. Go and see a doctor asap.