Week 5 Day 1 and goals for my 20th year

There are 49 days until my twentieth birthday and therefore 49 days until I am an official jogger. Yesterday, I came off of a 2 month long hiatus from running and completed week 5 day 1 of the Couch to 5k program. I ran it on my treadmill at a 4.7 speed for the three 5-minute jogging portions. This is slower than I had previously pushed myself but it felt great because I was never out of breath and was able to jog comfortably, even talk, without running out of breath. I could focus on keeping the stomach cramps away by flexing my stomach muscles and most importantly I could focus on my breathing. During the walking portions I stretched to get rid of a shin splint. I always seem to get shin splints on the treadmill but never outside. I'm hoping that I can fit in a run tomorrow outside at a park near school, but that will only happen if the soreness in my thighs goes away. I'm just so happy to have such wonderful weather here on the East Coast in February! Hopefully, this unusual weather is here to stay and because I love pictures that remind me of happy summer days, below I'll post a beautifully pink flower that my family and I found when we went to the Caribbean a few years ago. This picture is one of my favorite summer computer backgrounds!