Author: brogan

Below is the full year in racing with our friends, our heros, and our proud parters at The North Face. For those of you who are just waking up from under a rock, the race series is called The Endurance Challenge. These races have acted as rally-points for the NP Movement and are a place where you can always find your people. The dates for the upcoming 2017 races, locations, and insider NP discount codes are below. Share this shit out and have something dirty to train for. read more

Since this spring there’s been a new November Project pledge tribe that has been making some noise, but this one is different, this was is out there… way out there.

On the other side of the world, 12 hours ahead of Chris Payne, Sydney O’Neil, and Beth Blendell is a place called Hong Kong. The pledge group name on Instagram? “Just Show Up HK.” Find them today, follow them now, and if you know anyone in Hong Kong, get them to show up this Wednesday morning as they flip the switch and become November Project Hong Kong! That’s right, your very own Laura McCloskey of San Francisco will be on site to hand deliver the stencils, the official round of hugs, and the first pass-off of the Positivity Award. We say it all the time, but WORLD TAKEOVER IS REAL! Hong Kong is coming on board!!! read more

Attention World, November Project London is good to go. Last week we brought them into the family with their own Positivity Award, stencils, and most importntly, the title of “November Project.”

The two-man show of Jake Otto (obviously American) and Tom McGillycuddy (obviously British) are a force to be reckon with. Am I saying that right? A “force to be reckoned with”? Is it, “The force to be retconned with”? Anyway, these guys are positive in a forceful way, I reckon. Jake, of the NP Boston family 2012-2015, created his own family when he and fellow core member, also from the Boston tribe, Martica Wakeman wed a year back. The two are the proud parents of the one and only Phoebe The PR Pig back in Boston. Jake & ‘Tica plan to live in London for enough years to buy up inner-city farm land proper enough to host Phoebe when she flies over to join them. But don’t let this Boston couple shine too long. Tom is the real story here. read more

Earlier this year I trained for and finished my first 50K. It was a small race in Baraboo, WI called Dances With Dirt. It was awesome. It was hot, it was long, and I have never been that tired at a finish line in my life. Again, it was awesome. With more and more Co-Leaders and NP members from around the world signing up for the Endurance Challenge Series (ECS) races, I wanted to get more on my game as I aimed at the final race of the year. Though the ECS by The North Face has three more stops in 2016 (Wisconsin & Utah both this month), I’m getting more and more updates that California, the final stop, is going to be huge. Yes, the event is what The North Face calls the Championships because all the pros show up, there is a giant prize dripping with cash & chocolate & fame on the line, and simple because the location is just outside of San Francisco. But something new is happening this year. As NP plans, as usual, to takeover the Marathon Relay with teams of 2 to 4 people who will share the 4 loops that add up to 26 miles, more and more of us are signed up to race 50K. Why? Don’t ask why, just keep reading. read more

Wednesday, September 7th 2016 the November Project movement will surge forward yet again, fearlessly into the unknown. Did that sound too intense? Well, it may be.

Start over: On Wednesday, September 7th 2016 the November Project movement will bring two new tribes into the movement, both of which are legit, neither of which is on North American soil. That’s right folks, the pledge groups known as Hour Of Power London and The Amsterdam Fit Project will officially own the name November Project London and November Project Amsterdam and officially join the party as tribes #30 and #31. read more