ESR General Meeting

This evening was the Eastside Runners fall general meeting. This was remarkable since I am the ESR Social Chair, which means I'm in charge of planning it!

I left work a bit early, to pick up some last minute things at the grocery store: cookies, grapes, ice. I also managed to borrow an LCD projector from work as our speaker had a Powerpoint presentation to deliver.

Setup went smoothly except for a few moments of panic when I found the electric outlet was too far away, and an extension cord wasn't available. So I literally ran to a nearby drugstore and bought a 25 foot outdoor extension cord, and got everything back on track.

As a side note, our library system doesn't have much equipment. Branch libraries don't repair broken overhead projectors (probably a combination of lack of budget and frequency of needed repairs), and only the regional libraries have LCD projectors. But, those projectors are only available for library programs, not for public meetings. Anyway, I was fortunate enough to be able to use the spare projector from work. The library didn't even have any extension cords! None for a 3 prong plug at least. I feel like donating the one I bought earlier.

The talk was interesting, we invited Geoffrey Lecovin of Evergreen Integrative Medicine to speak on sports nutrition. The talk covered some basic about good nutrition, and included some handy info: 15 food to include in your diet, recipes for homemade sports drinks and smoothies, sample menus for half-marathon and marathon build up, etc.

One minor disappointment was the talk wasn't well attended. We were expecting about 20 people and only 11 showed. But it went well - we had some good questions afterwards and the people who attended were interested.