Hawken Project

 The reason that Ethan and I were inspired to persur this project was because we wanted to give back to the athletic department at Hawken. Athletics have been a huge part of our life at Hawken and as graduating seniors we wanted to find a way to give back while still helping the future generation to succeed. As we began this project our objective was to build a physical refuel station, but as we started our project it became clear that we would not have the time and materials to do so. So our focuses for the three weeks really went into learning about nutrition, interviewing hogs hills and universities, and laying out the logistics of the station so that someone can one day build it. Put mentors did a great job of making sure we know what we need to helped us get in contact with the right people, and made sure that we were asking the right questions. Ethan and I were very excited and enthusiastic to learn about this topic and begin the process of making a field station for Hawken. ...

 Again today was mostly work time, and time spent meeting with coach lew. We spoke about the final logistics about our project, we began our presentation after completing a google doc about how we are going to test the fuel station. We want to start with a test run and then use that data to help us argue the importance of this station! 

These next two blog posts are going to be a little shorter then the others, because we are getting to the final steps of our projects. Therefore we do not have a lot to write about other then what we are working on.  However, today we got one last order of Biosteel in and this time it was electrolytes.m. A very similar drink to Gatorade but in our opinion it tasted a tad bit better. There were 5 flavors blue raspberry, peach mango, white freeze, mixed berry, rainbow twist. The best flavor in my opinion was the white freeze, and the worst being the peach mango. In conclusion, they were very good drinks and seemed to have a better effect then Gatorade. 

 Today Ethan and I got the opportunity to try some samples of the product we are considering using called BIO STEEL. Bio steel is one of the 2 companies that we are researching in order to get the best option for Hawken.  The company was kind enough to send us a lot of different things to try, the first being electrolyte drinks, and the other being protein powder to mix with water. We first tried the plant based protein which was very good but the ingredients were not the same and that’s not what we would be using for Hawken. So next we tried their recovery protein both chocolate and vanilla they did not have the taste that we wanted and none of the coaches enjoyed them either. However we had another product there that we were able to compare to Biosteel, critical reload. Critical reload is another protein powder supplier, but the big plus with this company is that they have a dispenser that we can purchase off them to make serving a lot easier to athletes. The vanilla and cho...