Holibags

Take off to Morocco for a week tomorrow! Can't wait, feel like could sleep for a week. First time we've had off on the course where we didn't have exams after our holidays.

Exam week means training was almost non existent:

Thursday - Road bike approx. 30 miles in 2 hours
Saturday - about 7.5 miles in 1.07
Sunday - Road bike 2 hours not sure how far

Taking my kit on holiday so will try get a few runs in....

And breath

All done, another 3 exams in the bag and that's 'third year' over. Technically not been at med school for 2 years yet but our numbering system is the one the undergrads use (because they outnumber us) so in a year we'll be final year. And in 2 years we'll be on the wards. Terrifying.

Someone has counted and discovered yesterday was our 38th exam since we started 18 months ago! In some ways it's flown by but at the same time I can't help but feel we've come a very long way in a short space of time. When we started I didn't know what diabetes was (shocking I know) and last week I got to do an Arterial Blood Gas (sticking a needle in someone's artery rather than their vein) A short time but a great journey.

bleurgh

Exams kick off tomorrow, haven't really done enough work but hopefully enough to carry me through. Ah well live and learn. Decided to stick my training up on here so can look back at it, probably should have done it for tri training but never mind. Distances are approximate and runs have different 'speeds' eg easy, steady, fast

Week 1:

Monday - 6 miles 46min
Wednesday - 6 miles 52min
Friday - 5 miles 42min
Saturday - 12 miles 1hr 42min

*I think those were my times, this is why I should write things down ;)

still around

It's been a long, long time since I posted anything more than a few words. This post will be no different but I fully intend to write up my first ever tri races. (a sprint tri as a dress rehearsal then a middle distance as the real deal) I had the stirrings of maybe an ironman this year at the back of my mind, if i could find the time to keep my training up, but a back injury that almost saw me drop out of the middle distance the physio has shut the door on any lengthy bike rides. Hopefully I'll have the opportunity again before I finish uni but I doubt it.

Plus a few words about the first clinical phase of my training. It's only been 4 months but I feel quite different to when I started, consultants still have the power to intimidate* but I feel at least a smidgen more confident in presenting a history (if not reporting a full examination with any authority-was that basal creps? Bronchial breathing?)

Anyway exams kick off on Monday then 2 and a half weeks holiday, including a week sat by a pool in Morocco, before it all starts again. This time with Obs and Gynae where I'll be a *gulp* 4th year.....



*I assume consultants will always have that power