Today's Mentor Meeting

I met with Ms. Maddren again today and created some more goals for this next week:

• create a calendar layout of what to do/when-- could be on my training plan which I was advised to show on my blog anyways by my evaluator
• long blog post about what I've learned, etc.
• record everything I eat starting Saturday- will probably use an app on my phone to do this unless I find another method
• run 9 miles! (hopefully my brother will be able to join me this weekend)

We also discussed my evaluation which I brought along to show her.  We agreed it was done in a different way than one would typically expect, but we found the suggestions within it together.  I was having some trouble figuring out how to implement lots of those things and Ms. Maddren was helpful in that she reassured me that I am keeping up a good blog and it would be difficult to make some of those changes in the context of my project.

When talking about the nutrition log, I mentioned that I'm not really sure what do to with it.  I was thinking that I might just compare it to what it recommended for people with my body type and based on my type of daily exercise, etc.  Ms. Maddren found me an article that I will read (called Nutrition for Runners on Runner's World) to figure out suggested calories, carbs, and so on that I should consume.  That being said, I'm not necessarily going to change my diet to match it exactly, because I am currently not too concerned about what I eat.  Of course I want to be healthy, but I think I eat relatively well.  If something is completely unhealthy or needs to be changed I will work to change it, but I don't suspect that to be the case.  I'm basically trying to see if what I consume is "on par" for what I should be.

I also stopped into class today to get my portfolio and talked briefly with Ms. G. about Buffalo.  Maybe we will do a long run together before then, but I'm worried she is being modest and is a lot faster than me!

Something I just thought of while writing is how I haven't written in my training journal in a long time.  I think that writing reflections of my longer runs on my blog is a better way to think through them and log them because there is much more space.  I will continue to flip through it to go back through all those tips that were inside, though!

I'll reflect on 9 miles and do some research this weekend!