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PR Day (aka Race Day), a real mother. PR Day during the holidays, a totally wretched thing. PR Day during the holidays in zero degree weather, ugh.
Screw it; Let’s do it!!! Props to those that just showed in these temps–lack thereof–this morning. You guys absolutely rock, even if the only record broken this morning was Indy’s lowest Race Day temp. And props to those that showed up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, this morning for their first workout! What a way to kick it all off.
Maybe you’d rather be on the island of Dominica than here in Indy with these temps, but I’d like to make the argument that we’ve got it pretty good here in our Midwestern home. This year’s been a good, make that GREAT, year for Indy.
***RECAP OF OUR 2017 HIGHLIGHTS***
- Andrew set a literal world record by becoming only the second ever Special Olympian to BQ. He was the first to do this in 35 years, and he’ll be competing in the 2019 Boston Marathon. He was recognized by many–including essentially all of the local news sources, the Pacers, and Runner’s World magazine. Most importantly, we’ve learned a lot and have seen the Tribe help his confidence SOAR!
- In that same vein, many tribesmates set personal bests and accomplished incredible personal feats this year with lots linking up and training together to slay their first marathons and half marathons. Gotta love that community collaboration!
- We got to hear the impact of this movement through more brave, tear-jerking, and empowering stories including those told by Tim Howard and Teresa Hazel. We don’t claim to be the source of anyone’s inspiration, but we love knowing that we provide the consistent means to help personal and interpersonal inspiration flourish!
- We knocked the month of November out of the park by working out in the park, Victory Field baseball park to be exact. (Thanks for leaving Chicago at 1:45AM to make it down, NP_CHI!) We got the hookup with the Pacers too for our killer Bankers Life Fieldhouse workout. On the one hand, it was indoors (an NP no-no). On the other hand, it was on the court in Bankers Life Fieldhouse and was our LARGEST SINGLE WORKOUT EVER!!!
- Speaking of record-breaking workouts, how about that Wednesday tattoo verbal workout recording 150 people #justshowup-ing! Can you smell the fresh ink? Sniff Shaw over the course of the next couple months. You know this group means a lot to him with a verbal like that!!
- A lesser known record breaking workout happened on some Friday during this year (aside from the BLF Pacers workout that is). We definitely set our Friday outdoor workout record, I’m just not sure when that occurred. I guess the best thing to do in 2018 is to host an outdoor Friday workout that is incredibly memorable and definitely destroys the previous Friday numbers record!
- Speaking of Fridays, we hosted our first NP yoga shesh! Thanks again, Jillian McAfee!
- We’ve stepped up our community collab game by forming–through impacters and networkers like Blake Roebuck and Sarah Myer–lasting partnerships to varying degrees with lululemon, BlueMile, White River State Park (except that parking lot ticket guy), Cooper’s Fun Run/Back On My Feet, Special Olympics Indiana, and RUN(317), among others. This will continue to be a huge help in growing our Tribe and this movement as we keep this thing going and growing into the future.
- We also said goodbye to some really great old friends and hello to some really great new friends. Emotional roller coaster!
- NP Globally, we really upped our worldwide stature by becoming a non-profit entity and by bringing on tribes from exotic places like Malaysia …and Buffalo, NY and Grand Rapids, MI. Woohoo! (If I’m remembering correctly, some big Euro tribes like London and Amsterdam came on this year. Maybe Hong Kong, Richmond, VA, and the two Texas tribes were this year two?? Time flies when you’re doing anything nowadays.) At any rate, 45 tribes now; WOW that’s cool. Look for other cool, inspiring, expansive moves to be made by corporate NP in 2018!
Workout:
Race. Day. . . . In slow motion.
Highlights there included the following: The radio kept playing music throughout most of the morning. No one slipped on the steps. Stick it old radio, and stick it icy steps.
Notes:
- Find us Friday for the last workout of ’17! We’ll be bringing it all together by meeting at the North Stairs of the Indiana War Memorial (our Wednesday spot) at 6a. Sidenote: this also gives those Wednesday warm people a second chance to visit the weekly spot.
- As always (but especially on a morning like this), thanks for the photo magic, JB! Jaden and Tom have been majorly majorly helpful with getting us some highly FOMO-inducing material this year, and we’re very thankful!
- Singles Club tag earned this morning for the single digit workout.
- ***2018 PLANS*** We’ve had one hell of a year, and we’re kicking off 2018 by continuing to ride that wave with:
- A teamed-up run with the Cooper’s Fun Run group followed by Kaffeine Coffee Jan 5th,
- Collaborative workout and breakfast planned with BlueMile in Broad Ripple Jan 12th,
- Hype/takeover of the 5k supporting the Butler Tarkington ‘hood Jan 13th,
- Boozy workout at Sun King Brewery late spring or early fall,
- Stronger connection with Indy state and city parks,
- Build on relationship with the Indiana War Memorials Commission,
- Make the Bankers Life Fieldhouse workout an annual tradition,
- Get Butler in on our game (back to our early early roots),
- Keep the good thing going with RUN(317),
- And–with a little help from our friends (that’s you guys with connections)–we’re working on collaborating with a westside Indy staple. We’ll let you guess what that last one might be (hint: it would be HUGE!).
See ya next year! (that’s so cheesy). Get lost, Jack Frost! (much better).
-Casey
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