Running Streak

Well, it's a new year.

2009.

This is the year I finally finish residency and have to go find a job.

Finally.

Well, there's that little thing called a gyn oncology fellowship, which I'll start in 2010. But hey, let's not think about that now.

Today, about an hour before call was finished on the labor floor, Steve Probst came up to me and told me about the OR's challenge, running streak. I must have looked at him strangely, because I was picturing certain faces in the OR running naked on this very cold first day of the year. Instead, he told me that the challenge was to run 1 mile everyday. $50 buy in, and whoever's still running at the end, the pot is theirs.

So I said, of course I'm game! I came home from call, slept on the futon for a few hours, and then when I woke up around 3:50, put on my running clothes, mostly left over from my first marathon training in 2005, and ran.

January 1st route: to 25 and back (Bank of America)
Songs listened to: Lovesong, London Bridge, SexyBack, Switch, See You Again
Total time: don't know, didn't take my watch
Weather: 24 degrees, sunny, feels like 13 degrees
Feeling: DAMN, this feels good again!

As we said this morning, it's 10 minutes. That's it. I can suck it up and do it before work. I can do it after work. It's 10 minutes. I can, and will, find the time. And every day, I'll record my stats.

Happy New Year!