Post 4

Hello!
Well yesterday was a very productive day! Yesterday after our team meeting about blogging Brittany and I went to Starbucks to make some phone calls to places we are interested in going to shadowing someone. She and I put together A large list of numbers that we found from different places. We spent quite a while calling different architecture firms and interior designers in the area. After a few phone calls that where unsuccessful, we realized that  this was not going to be as easy as we thought. We know that WISE students in the past have done similar projects but we are not really sure how they went about it. One of the problems with this as our project is that some architects and designers work out of their house so it would be kind of hard for us to shadow or intern there. We left our names and our phone numbers with a few people and they said that they would get back to us. We ended up staying at Starbucks for about 2 hours! Just as we where getting ready to go home Brittany came to me with another idea. She had the idea of training to run a half marathon a few months from now. Our project will include talking to trainers and having them help us to come up with a plan on how to train. Also we will meet with a nutritionist and make sure we are eating the proper diet for what we are going to do. I loved this idea and think that this would be an awesome life experience and a great WISE project. This project will be a huge challenging but I  know that I will feel so accomplished if I really do train and complete a half marathon. I am currently the most basic kind of runner now, so I think it will be extremely interesting to track my progress and truly test if anyone is capable of running a half marathon. The most I have ever ran at one time is 6 miles so I have a long  ways progress to make. I am going to talk to a trainer later this afternoon with Brittany and see what they say. After we make the phone call I plan on going on a one mile run. For me right now that is about as far as I can run. Ill be back later and keep you posted on what happens!