Author: brogan

Today was the best day we’ve had in the hills in November Project history. “Why was it the best day we’ve had in the hills in November Project history,” you may be asking. Well, let us explain… For starters, we had over ten brand new members trying their best to tackle all 5 trips up and down Summit Ave hill. Runners, rowers, yogi types, cross fitters, cyclists and the everyday racers came out to test their stuff on this sunny Friday morning. We had folks who were visiting Boston for only one day and November Project is how they chose to kicked off their Beantown stay – love it. We had two dogs who brought their human owners out for a little exercise. The four legged creatures may have tried to bite each others faces off, make out, and simply sniff butts during the workout – it was a great scene. read more

For those of you who have been November Project members since the early spring, you may have started noticing that our tribe is growing at an awesome pace. The exciting part is that the growth is taking place in both quality and quantity. This new community is 100% due to the word of mouth recruiting that you all are doing on a regular basis. By cutting and pasting this blog link, remaining active on our Facebook page, adding in on Twitter, sharing photos via Instagram, planning your workout attire on Pinterest, and the many other forms of social media, the energetic words that started as a small whisper are getting louder each week and November Project is naturally bringing on more racers. As you know, more racers will help to fill in the gaps between athletes in our workouts. This filled out pack will push us all harder and help us trim time as a… here it comes… as a team. Please keep up the recruiting and bring our #grassroots #community more good people and beastly racers. read more

Saturday, June 25th in Worcester, MA your November Project co-founders took on the 16th Annual Big Man Run. What is the Big Man Run? Glad you asked. Its a road race for only big dudes (190lbs+). Not only that, over the sun-soaked, hilly, 4 mile course, you are required to stop in three different bars to eat one hot dog and chug one beer before continuing on. There is a weigh-in, tons of bands, lots of trash talking, and Harpoon beers to follow. Brogan Graham and Bojan Mandaric took 1st and 6th overall and proudly represented November Project. Before the race a woman that drops haikus for living noticed our shirts and said, “November Project! Hey, you guys are the Boston group that runs the stairs on Wednesdays, right?” BOOM! With that comment and our overall results, we left Worcester and headed to the beach with a gut full of crap, feeling very badass. read more

For many of us, Summit Ave is a place we know we can go train and we know we can get fit if we continue coming back for more. The hill is a beast and it’s also very accessible from most locations here in Boston. Local runners and cyclists can be seen here every morning of the week to train their climbing gear. In the Greater Boston area, we’d take this hill as one of the best stretches of road to train on. Like Northeastern Athletic Department’s Chris Marshal said today after his fifth and final pass, “Beacon Hill has nothing on Summit Ave.” read more

TODAY:

From Brighton to East Arlington, Cambridge to Beacon Hill, #novemberproject had members bounding out of bed to drive, walk, Hubway, run, and race their way to our Wednesday regular in Allston – The Harvard Stadium “Tour.” Our turnout was as strong as we’ve ever had and hope that your positivity will build for Friday and again next week. read more

For our post today, we thought we could take a moment to explain who the f&%$ some of these super heros actually are. Meaning, most of us don’t run stairs professionally and actually DO other things with our time. Based on the fact that we don’t always have time, or the extra lung capacity, to hang out and socialize after the workout, we thought we’d point out the other cool things that we’re off to during our “work day.” As you know, Twitter is our main vein of communication, so if you’re not on there GET ON THERE. @Nov_Project may miss a few of you and hope you’re so offended that you show up next Wednesday to give us some shit. No but really if you didn’t make the post it’s not because we don’t like you – we probably just don’t know you all that well. But we hope to become your dear friends so we can tell tales of your awesomeness to other @Nov_Project dudes and gals. Sooo without further ado let’s start with… read more

We had a number of new faces show up for Wednesday’s “Stadium Tour” along with many repeat customers. There is no question that the energy is strong and our momentum is building. If you didn’t see yesterday’s post please check it out and post your time – we love tracking improvement. The folks that posted PR’s yesterday will get their “PR Pizza” trophy next Wednesday. Please plan to come next week with friends who may want to get some fitness injected into their life before the work day begins. We’ll be doing that workout every Wednesday with a  6AM start for those of you with early work commitments, while our main group will have a 6:30AM start. On the last Wednesday of the month we’ll do the full 37 sections and anyone who posts their fastest time (PR) will be awarded the “PR Pizza” the following week. read more