The past week was busy and I almost failed to keep excercise in my balance. It was so refreshing to go for a solid run today around UBC campus after anatomy lab. Ever since med school started, I promised myself to run every other day and slowly build up my stamina through the year. It's not great, but I managed to get down 5km in just under 30 minutes today. When it comes to excercise, I've always been more inclined to do individual and more reserved things. Running fits that description perfectly. I just use it at a time to think about things or use it to gas my personal motivation. I was running quite a bit 2 yrs ago when I got the 11km mark, but I came down with a running injury to my IT band. The right side of my knee was hurting a lot especially if I went on long walks. Tried physio, but nothing worked. I gave up on all the excercises and biking a lot didn't really help. It flares up every now and then when I'm running but it hasn't bothered me recently until today when I was running a stretch of uphill. I just gotta be more careful. My colleague was a licensed physiotherapist before entering med school. She checked me out and said my knee didn't come up straight as normal knees do when I bend and extend it.
Today in anatomy lab, we started dissecting the face of the cadaver. This was a really special moment because we identify a lot more with our cadavers as once-living humans when we actually see the face in comparison to the other body parts. A few students fainted and had to be dragged out as I can imagine it being really emotionally intense for some of my colleagues. Again, that whole notion of reaffirming respect for those who donated their bodies for our pursuit of knowledge.
Just to make a note to myself, the two new movies that I should watch are New Moon and Law Abiding Citizen. And the nicest song I've heard on the radio for a while, "That's what it feels like" by Jenna who is a rising RnB singer hailing from Toronto, Canada.
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