Dr Sweetheart and Dr Gorgeous

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Day One of Marathon training. We woke up at 6am and started out with a 5k run with regular walking and jogging. Last night we signed up to the Marathon and also created our GoFundMe page. We posted it onto the hospital community and onto the Seattle community pages on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and even got it onto the radio. We wanted as many people as possible to know what we were doing for the peds department. 

We decided on running from our house to work and running home each day. Rather than using the car, there was a nice running route from ours, through the local park, then along the waterfront and into the country park behind the hospital. We gave ourselves three hours, it should only take an hour and a half but that allows us time to shower and get ready at work. 

Collectively, we decided to synced our headphones to the same music so we were running at the same pace. We decided on 5 minute intervals, so five minutes walk, 5 minutes jog and alternating throughout. It was an easy start and we both had our water bottles in our running bags. 

As we were running up towards the hospital we saw Amelia. "Ooh, the training has started." she says. "To be honest, it wasn't that hard, it's a nice route as well." Arizona explains. I notice the time. "I'm going to head in and take a shower before we start." I say as I run towards the hospital. I quickly shower and change into some scrubs.

I walk down towards trauma and see Maya Bishop and Andy Hererra. "Hey y/n, how is the marathon training going?" Andy says. "Oh it's going well, it would be cool to have some more people join us, if you guys are up for it?" I suggest knowing Maya loves running. "Oh yes count me in! When do you train?" Maya asks eagerly. "Well we are running to and from work if you want to join us, we run past station 19 so you could run to us and we do our route and drop you off." I suggest as Maya's face lights up. "I'll pass, already got a lot on my belt." Andy says. "What time will you be finished so I know when to meet you later?" Maya asks. "Well me and Zona both finish at 6pm so we'll probably get to you by 6.15?" I say trying to give a rough estimate. "Oh great, I finish at 6 too so I'll see you there!" Maya says before her and Andy make their way back to their aid car. 

The day goes by really quickly and we are suddenly getting back into our running gear. I meet Arizona at the back of the hospital so we can begin our run. "We need to make a pit stop at Station 19, I've recruited another runner, Maya is going to do the marathon with us!" I say to Arizona as she looks at her phone. "We've already raised a thousand dollars for the peds department, and thats only from one day! We might actually be able to get more funding than the hospital can give us!" Arizona says getting excited, "Don't use all your energy on your excitement." I say as I start the run. 

As we run up to Station 19 we can see Maya jogging on the spot waiting for us. "Hey Maya, you ready" Arizona says. "Yeah, I'll just follow your pace!" She says as we begin. We run the entire way home, once we get to our house we wave Maya off as she continues. 

Arizona falls onto the sofa as we get in. "I think that was a pretty good training day." I say as I take my running shoes off and chuck my running clothes in the washing machine. "Zona, can you put the washing on once you take your clothes off" I ask before running upstairs to have a quick shower. 

Marathon 🏃‍♀️

Maya:
So when are we next training?

Y/N:
I think we are going to do twice a week so we aren't killing ourselves straight away.

Y/N:
You can train as much as you like though.

Arizona:
Yeah, y/n has a board exam on friday so we will probably train on saturday after she's done with her studying!

Maya:
Great! I'll meet you here at 6am on Saturday?