Santa Rosa Plateau trail running and WTF!

1 comments at Thursday, November 29, 2007

Drove out to Santa Rosa Plateau this morning and ran a nice 11.5 mile course. Started at the Visitors Center ($2 honor system day use fee) and headed down Vista Grande trail to Waterline road and up to Monument Rd and saw quite a few coyote along the way. From here I headed down Punta Mesa trail, past the Adobes and headed left up Vernal Pool trail towards the Vernal Pools.

About half way to the pools, I came around a corner and see 2 people just off the trail - a guy (fully clothed with his back to me) with his arms wrapped down and around a woman (clothed) who was on her knees and was facing away from him. I just thought WTF did I just stumble upon! The first thing I saw was him pulling up with his arms and back and it looked like he was choking her! I ran up and asked what's going on and he said she was choking on some food. A closer look around, I realized they were on a blanket and there was a half eaten sandwich on the ground. Strangely, he was trying to do the Heimlich on here but at the same time he was asking her if she was OK (and she was able to respond) - really, you shouldn't be doing the Heimlich on someone who can respond to questions. The guy seemed almost annoyed that I was there when I offered to help so I just headed down the trail. I ran past the Vernal Pools and down Los Santos trail, past the Overlook area and down to the Hidden Valley trailhead, going back up Coyote trail. At the junction with Trans-Preserve trail, I took Oak Tree trail to Tenaja Truck trail and then back to the Visitors Center on Waterline Rd.

 

Getting more running in (finally) and a pharmacist (finally!)

0 comments at Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Work has been pretty busy the past few months. Since becoming the Pharmacist in Charge of the new pharmacy, I have been working pretty much solo. The model of the chain I work for is set up so that it takes 2 pharmacists to staff all the hours the pharmacy is open per week. Normally each pharmacist works 40 hours in 4 days (2 12hr days and 2 8.5 hr days) - BUT I have not had another pharmacist working with me since I opened which has resulted in me working 4 12hr and 1 8.5hr days a week. This leaves 2 days a week that I have had floater pharmacists filling in. Starting today, I finally have a pharmacist working full time at my pharmacy which is going to give me 1 more day off a week! The timing is great since I really need to start getting in shape for the Death Valley trail run (Feb) which I'd like to run the 26.2 mile (rather than the 18 mile)course. The schedule we will be working will be working from Wed to Wed, then you get 6 days off in a row! My first 6 day off period starts tomorrow. I'm going to head out to run Santa Rosa Plateau tomorrow, then spend several days writing for a project I am involved in with UCSD School of Pharmacy. I'm writing a chapter for a textbook on Pharmacy Informatics that is to be published sometime next summer. My chapter is on the use of handheld mobile devices in pharmacy practice.

 

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