I can't believe four months have gone by since my last post. I stayed really busy during the holiday break, catching up with family and friends, completing a mentorship, and attending the NAVC. It ended too quickly and I've already been back in school for almost 3 full months!
For my non-vet school friends (and soon to be vet school friends), our course schedule this semester consists of systemic pathology + lab , clinical pathology + lab, virology, toxicology, integration, radiology + lab, and we already completed our half semester of pharmacology 2. This has been the hardest semester for me so far. The best way to describe it is like drowning. It's an overwhelming amount of material to learn, but somehow I'm keeping my head above the water! This semester is also the most social I've been since I started veterinary school. I don't know if that's helping or hindering me, but I at least feel less stressed out when I give myself a break to go out on the weekends :) Roughly 6 weeks left of school and then I will be on my way back to Florida! I'm pretty excited about this summer. On the agenda: between May 20th and June 14th is jammed full of friends, family and the beach, my best friend Brittney's bachelorette party, followed by 11 days in Gainesville with Misty for the Sea Vet course, followed immediately by Brittney's wedding (so excited!!), and then I start my job at Banfield for the remainder of the summer! It's going to be busy, but when am I not busy? Pretty used to it at this point. I just hope I have enough time to relax a little on my days off from work, because this is my last summer...ever! Next summer I'll be in the clinics, which is crazy to even think about...
So while I'm here, I wanted to talk about my running progress. I started a 10K training program 7 weeks ago, and I've made quite a bit of progress. I wish I had made more progress by this point, but I have never been a long distance runner (always was a sprinter in high school) so it's taking me longer than the average person (at least I feel like it is!). So I thought I'd record my progress so far. Maybe it will make me feel better about how far I've come, or maybe I'll feel bad enough about myself to push it a little harder ;)
Week 1 Day 1 1.65 miles, 30:00 minutes
Week 1 Day 2 1.75 miles, 30:00 minutes
Week 1 Day 3 1.76 miles, 30:00 minutes
Week 2 Day 1 2.00 miles, 31:00 minutes
Week 2 Day 2 2.00 miles, 32:00 minutes
Week 2 Day 3 2.00 miles, 31:18 minutes
Week 3 Day 1 1.97 miles, 30:00 minutes
Week 3 Day 2 2.03 miles, 30:00 minutes
Week 3 Day 3 2.03 miles, 30:00 minutes
Week 4 Day 1 2.21 miles, 31:30 minutes
Week 4 Day 2 2.27 miles, 31:30 minutes
Week 4 Day 3 2.38 miles, 35:00 minutes
Week 5 Day 1 2.42 miles, 35:00 minutes
Week 5 Day 2 2.54 miles, 37:00 minutes
Week 5 Day 3 (skipped - whoops!)
Week 6 Day 1 2.58 miles, 37:00 minutes
Week 6 Day 2 2.73 miles, 37:00 minutes
Week 6 Day 3 3.15 miles, 39:00 minutes
Week 7 Day 1 3.12 miles, 35:00 minutes
Week 7 Day 2 3.31 miles, 39:00 minutes
So as of now I've added 1.66 miles to my distance and 9 minutes to my time. Right now I'm mostly focused on increasing my distance rather than my time, but definitely trying to not go over 40 minutes. I have a 5K this Saturday and my goal is to at least beat my time last year (45 minutes), and based on my stats I should have no problem with that! But I'd ultimately like to be able to finish the 5K in 35 minutes. I'll have Rhyley with me, so her wanting to sniff/bark/attack people might slow me down a bit, but hopefully not too much, haha. And my goals beyond that? I want to keep training for a 10K and look for one to complete sometime this summer in Florida, or one in Kansas in the fall. If anyone knows of one, let me know! Really I just want to keep up with this because not only have I lost weight, I just feel a lot better inside and out. Running has been my time to release my anxiety and tension, and to regain composure and collect my thoughts. This summer will prove challenging, because not only is Florida super hot and swampy in the summer, but I'll be working 30 to 40 hours a week and the commute is 50 minutes. So we'll see how dedicated I am to get up in the morning or stay up after work to run!
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