vamos a ver que pasará
In other news
I ran the National Half Marathon this morning. It’s the first time I’ve properly trained for a half (this is my third), and it was thrilling to see the results! I have been sick with a nasty head and chest cold for about ten days, so I seriously lowered my expectations, but I slept 10 hours on both wednesday and thursday nights and woke up feeling good this morning.
Despite burning lungs on the hills (due to my cold and that it was 34 deg), Natalie and I managed to maintain an average 7:31min/mi pace over the course of the race and finish relatively strong. It was invigorating.
I definitely bought myself a few more days of head and chest congestion, coughing and sneezing, but it was well worth it. Running like that is incredibly empowering.
Changes ahead…
I’m a week post-spring break and gearing up for our March exam (they’re on a monthly basis now, thankfully) and slowly watching the end of my lecture-based learning pass before my eyes. We literally have 4 more weeks of class. This doesn’t mean I’ll never sit in a classroom again, but beginning on July 1st, we start rotations, which will turn our understanding of what it means to be a medical student upside down.
You may wonder what happens between May 6th, the date of my final exam of second year, and July 1st…and the answer is painfully simple: the boards. It’s the first step of the national medical licensing exam. Matt (my study buddy) and I will take 6 weeks to prepare for an 8 hour exam on June 15th where we will be tested on everything we have learned over the past two years.
It’s daunting and carries a lot of weight, but I’m surprisingly excited.
Oye, abre tus ojos, mira hacia arriba…disfruta las cosas buenas que tiene la vida
welcome, spring. it’s about time.
Every few months…
I get motivated to write again. Maybe it will actually happen this time.
I should give an update on the past two years - a highlight reel, if you will. Sounds like a perfect Sunday night activity.
After a year stateside
I am one year into medical school and currently embracing my final summer. After a few weeks in San Francisco, I’ll be headed to Mexico for two months to brush up my Spanish.
I’m considering training for another marathon, but we’ll have to see how running is in Guanajuato before I make the commitment.
Other than that, little has changed. Funny how that happens.
Six months later
I have a whole lot to catch up on, but most importantly - I finally did it - I finished the Philadelphia Marathon in 3 hours 59 minutes and 6 seconds.
I was thrilled.
reaching the end
It’s hard to believe nine months have passed already.
I head back to San Francisco this Thursday.
I think I might keep this thing going for a while… feel free to email me if you have a strong opinion one way or another.
Thanks.
rafting the nile
below are a sequence of photos taken by a friend of a friend who was on shore while we rafted…
this was one of ten rapids we hit during our day-long adventure. surprisingly, we never flipped.
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