San Francisco

So I finally finished my 3rd call month in a row, and will be on outpatient rotations until March. It will be great to get weekends off, and I'm really looking forward to more sleep. I started off my weekend freedom by heading up to San Francisco and ran the SF Half Marathon. I finished at 2:12:27 with a pace of 10:07. This is significantly slower than the Surf City Half, where I went 1:58:47. However, there were a lot more hills than Huntington Beach, and I didn't even get a chance to train. Now that I have started running, I'm going to have to keep going! Here are the rest of the stats: 7.6 mile split time 1:17:24 with a pace of 10:12. I finished 1933 out of 3481 male runners, and 535 out of 859 in my age class of 25-29 y/o. I'm so proud of Noelle, who finished with a respectable 2:54:23, still under 3 hours without any training!

4th of July

The day started out early. I had to go into work, but Noelle got up even earlier and made chocolate chip pancakes! It was a surprise breakfast, and much better than my usual cereal. I managed to get out of work early, and we were off to lunch, and then Seaport Village. I've never been there before, and it was a really nice day. Lots of people probably arrived first thing in the morning to camp out for the prime locations. We ran into the face painter, and after Noelle mentioned it was my birthday, I got a free crab on my cheek! It turned out well, and stayed on for the rest of the day. We roamed the area until nearing dinner time, and that's when I knew something was up. Noelle kept getting text messages, and her excuse of wishing her mom happy 4th of July didn't fly. She kept stalling on going to the restaurant, and I realized that she planned to have dinner with other people. I kept running through my head who would be there. Turns out Noelle coordinated with Jack, Will, Ivy, my parents, and her mom to come down. I was so surprised, and happy that I was able to spend the evening with everyone. She even had a carrot cake for me! We stayed to watch fireworks, which are a lot more exciting with everyone. I have to say that this is the most memorable birthday ever, and I can't wait till next year!

3rd year

I'm officially a 3rd year resident now! Can't believe it's July already, and I'm sure this next year will go by pretty fast. Finished my last call night in the ICU last night. I'm back on wards, 3 more call months to go. This last year should be more relaxing with more weekends off. My first weekend off will be the SF half marathon at the end of the month. Gotta start running again! Noelle came back from her Northern Europe cruise. Sounds fun, but such a shame that I didn't get a chance to go. Maybe this next year, I'll finally make my way to Europe. And it's time to start planning for the big day!