Crunch time

Getting down to almost 3 weeks left.  Goals for this past week things have been pretty simple:
1.  Don't get hurt.
2.  Get in a few high quality sessions.
3.  Cut back on my calories as to not gain weight--as mentioned before, I eat a lot with high volumes of training.  Now, with the training starting to be tailored back, I need to drop my calories in concordance.   This will take a lot of discipline.  We'll see if I can do it.
 4.  Things have been busy on the work front this week:  trying to get applications finished for my fellowship training next year (sports medicine), still trying to get 2 research studies through IRB (which is so close, but a painstaking process), and oh, yeah, there is that learning thing to be done as well.  On the exciting side of work, I am hoping to have a couple of my patients deliver babies in the next couple days.  While I will certainly not be doing obstetrical care as part of my regular practice in the future, I do really enjoy it now.  While it adds a little to the stress of being available at all times, within a 1/2 hr or so of the hospital, especially when still doing workouts still taking longer than that, there is nothing quite as exciting as seeing a family celebrating the birth of their child. 

Sorry for the brief post, just wanted to give an update on my focus this past week.  Thanks to those of you reading this.  I really feel honored to hear that people take a look at this and take time from their day to email or call or just ask about this journey.  It has been a somewhat trying week mentally for me and the emails and chats I had with people this week have been a needed boost--thanks.  A special thanks to my readers from Russia, Germany, and India...hah! this blog allows you to see where your readers are and at least one person in each of those places has clicked on my blog in the past couple weeks.  I'm sure it was by mistake but if not, thanks for reading.