New Place, New Life

Well, I've been absent for months consumed with work, school, and moving cross-country and life in general. I think now I'm ready to return to the occasional blog.
SO, a lot has changed in my life I live in a new town, new state, new school, new home. Daily life is a total change, and a good one. Having sold my car I no longer have motorized transportation. Thankfully, the town I live in has a beautiful transit system especially for the population. The town is fairly compact, (if mainly one steep hill) and lends nicely to walking. I have been walking everywhere and I've found that I quite enjoy it and started hiking the trails in the woods around town. All of this walking is slowly getting me in shape, combined with eating a more simple and healthier diet, I'm losing weight as well. All in all I feel pretty great. Its been almost 4 weeks in my new home and I think this place has really changed my life. A fresh start and I'm seizing it. With this I've decided to do something to help improve my cardio endurance. I started the Couch to 5K program. It is a nine week training program to help acclimate your body to the stresses of running with the ultimate goal of being able to run for 3 miles or 30 minutes at the end of 9 weeks. You can check it out here C25K. I'll keep y'all updated on my thoughts on the program.
That being said yesterdays run consisted of: "Brisk five-minute warmup walk. Then alternate 60 seconds of jogging and 90 seconds of walking for a total of 20 minutes."
This comes out to 8mins of running total. I was quite nervous because I really have never been a runner. As a kid I prided myself on not being the last kid to finish the mile...I was consistently 2nd or 3rd to last. But armed with Robert Ullrey's free podcast of music and him telling you when to switch from running to walking. Sounds a little silly but man it really helped me not focus on the time factor. I managed just fine jogging slowly. The only discomfort I felt was around the 5th interval and that being shin pain. It wasn't very bad just uncomfortable and I felt it in each run after that but the walks inbetween helped as well as the cooldown walk. I came home and streched and felt really quite good. I know it will get harder in coming weeks but I'm looking forward to it. Today I ache very little, mainly groin muscles and strangly a tiny bit in my abs. I can't wait for tomorrows run. I know I will do fine.
Well kids that is about all. I hope you continue to read desipte my time off.