Yearly Review on jeffcarp

2024 Year in Review

Wed, 25 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Keeping it short and sweet this year. Here are my highlights:

Welcomed a baby into the world!!!
Recovered enough to run again
Ran 138.5 miles
Left Waymo and Joined Google
Became a manager
Was mentioned in TechCrunch
Went to Hawaii for our babymoon
Went to Taiwan and China to visit in-laws and got to pick tea on a tea farm
Read 21 books
Took 104 Waymos
Drank 45 drinks (exactly the same as last year)

2023 Year in Review

Mon, 25 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Hi there, it’s time to reflect on what I was up to this year.

Running

I started 2023 thinking I had a long-term knee injury. Around Summertime I made a breakthrough in discovering it wasn’t a knee issue but a toe issue. Since then I’ve been keeping the mileage low and trying to build a healthy base.

In total I ran 361 miles this year, which is down from usual but I was very consistent in my training. I was super grateful to have the consistency and support from my running buddies at WeRunSF and Noe Run Club.

2022 Year in Review

Thu, 29 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Hi friends,

Like last year, here’s a brief overview of what I got up to in 2022.

Running

Despite this being my biggest running year in terms of mileage (683mi), I struggled with injuries pretty much the whole year, likely due to too much racing and not enough training.

My “goal race” for this year was running the Four Pass Loop, a 28mi loop with 9000ft of vert around the Maroon Bells in Colorado and rated the #1 trail run in the country on Trail Run Project. I made it about halfway before turning around, due to running the Double Dipsea two weeks before and not giving myself enough time to recover.

2021 Year in Review

Sat, 25 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

I wasn’t initially planning on writing a year in review blog post for 2021, but I was recently reminded of how nice it is to have a concise public record of the things that were important to me for each year (even if nobody other than me reads it). So here it goes!

Highlights

Getting vaccinated!
Going back out to restaurants and dining
Attending weddings of my two of my best college friends
First Waymo SF ride
Traveling again
Wednesday morning trail runs

2020 Year in Review

Sun, 27 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

2020. What can I say? It was a year I don’t think any of us need to live again. Here’s a brief overview of my year.

Highlights

In February on Valentine’s day, Elva and I adopted Noona(!), an 8 year old Siberian Husky. She’s the chillest, sweetest dog. Due to lockdown starting 2 weeks later, I’m sure she thinks that spending all day at the house giving her attention is normal.

2019 Year in Review

Tue, 31 Dec 2019 04:37:09 +0700

In 2019 I got married—twice! (to the same person!) I changed jobs. I ran my first marathon. 2019 was a huge year in my life.

I grew in a lot of ways this year. Wedding planning was a huge undertaking and strengthened our communication and quick decision making skills. Additionally this year I started working with a therapist which has been great—I’m wondering why I never thought of doing that earlier.

2018 Year in Review

Mon, 24 Dec 2018 15:39:13 -0700

For the past few years I’ve been summing up my yearly highlights in a blog post. It doesn’t matter if anyone reads these posts—it’s nice to have these to be able to look back on the big things that happened in my life each year.

So without further ado, here’s an overview of the big things that happened in my life in 2018, from Running, to Reading, Learning Work, and Health, finally looking at how I did on my 2018 goals and setting 2019 goals.

Goodbye 2017, Hello 2018

Sun, 31 Dec 2017 21:33:26 -0700

Hi friends, here’s a quick overview of what I was up to this year.

The most important thing that happened this year

On a sunny day in August 2017, literally the smartest and most beautiful person I know and I embarked on a beautiful trail run on Mt. Tamalpais in Marin that ended on top of a mountain. Once we got to the summit, I asked her to marry me. She said yes!!!

2016 Year in Review

Sat, 31 Dec 2016 15:39:13 -0700

2016 turned out to be a pretty crappy year, but it wasn’t all terrible. I made some good progress on my personal goals, so there’s that. Here’s a review of my 2016. If this sort of post strikes you as excessive navel gazing, that’s because it is — therefore I urge you to stop reading right now.

Work

The theme for this year of my life is probably “insane amounts of learning.” In the first half of 2016 I was at Braintree working on a new payments platform. In August I joined the Google Chrome team.

2015 in 5 Themes

Mon, 11 Jan 2016 21:39:13 -0700

Here are the 5 most defining themes of my 2015, in no particular order.

1. Scapula

I fractured my scapula (shoulder blade on my right side) on December 24, 2014 while skateboarding with my sister. I spent most of January 2015 resting and recovering. Part of that meant starting physical therapy.

PT was such a good influence on not just my scapula, but other parts of my life, that I consider breaking my scapula a highly net positive life event.