Author: Derek

Wisconsin Notes:

• Summit 5.0 dates released. Lock it in for next year!
• Christmas themed Pop up workout Friday, Dec 23rd at the Legislative Building
• Badassery achieved by everyone who showed up this morning
• Janet; Shaboooooya

For those of you that missed out on the awesomeness that was Summit 4.0, here is your chance to get involved in Summit 5.0. Get a team together, get signed up, book your flights. Summit this coming year will be in… Boston. Back where it all began. This will be huge. Any questions? Ask any of us leaders and we will be happy to inform you on all the poor decisions you can and should make. read more

Wisconsin notes: 

• Five years of NP, five times the fun, five everything. Five minute burpees. Five is good
• Remembrance Day Pop-up: November 11th (obviously) 6:14am at the Legislative Building
• Frosty Beaver Half Marathon Trail Run: also November 11th, 7pm at The Forks
• ‘Showing Up’ a Dooster Production, will be shown November 20th at Le Garage. Meet for a run at The Forks first, earn those beers
• Kristjana: Shabooya

Five years ago, November Project was born in the depths of a grungy pub in Boston, the brainchild of two larger than life dudes, Bojan and Brogan. Their dedication to meet each other every morning during the month of November to workout, holding each other accountable, lead to the start of a google spreadsheet; The November Project (a lot like how it was The Facebook before it became just Facebook.. Whoa, they’re going to be billionaires. Well, maybe not, this shit is free after all). read more

Wisconsin notes:

• ‘Showing Up’ video screening / Better than bedtime
• Shout out to WFPS runners
• Nick + Nicole = Love Love Love

As many of you may have seen, Dooster, the guys who brought you all of the Summit videos, have put together a movie showing eight stories around November Project called ‘Showing Up’. Check out the trailer here.

On Sunday, November 20th we will be hosting a free event at Le Garage Cafe on Provencher Blvd to have a screening of this awesome film. We decided to turn it into a ‘Better Than Bedtime’, meaning we will start with a run at The Forks, then meet at Garage. We still have to hash out the details to see if we want to do appetizers or not, I might throw up a poll on NP YWG community to see who would be interested in that. Then we will need to see what the interest is, and if we need to do an eventbrite pre-booking for everyone, as their capacity is around 120. But for now, you have the date and the location, so lock it in. Theme is also TBD. read more

Wisconsin notes:

• Pop up this Friday- Goldeyes Stadium (Shaw Park) at 6:10am
• Ivan from Yukon (not really) is the shabooya winner
• PR and tags
• Love letters to Baltimore

This morning was great. Somehow, we went up in numbers from last week. Normally, the group gets smaller as the days get shorter and colder. But I guess NP is anything but normal. Lots of new members this morning, I even convinced one of my chiropractor colleagues to change his clinic schedule on Wednesdays so he could start coming. Last week’s shabooya award went to Dennis, and since then I’ve been hearing all these stories about how he’s taken on this mentor role for all the newbies. It’s one of those things you miss when you’re running the work out, trying to coordinate everything. So it was nice to hear these little anecdotes, every one should take notes from Dennis and make an effort to make all the new people feel at ease. Let’s face it, your first couple times at NP are always a little daunting, a little weird. Maybe they still are. That’s ok. read more

Wisconsin notes:

• Baltimore is our sister city. 
• Pop up next Friday! Goldeyes!
• It’s getting dark out 
• NP to Falcon almost won Swamp Donkey, but then they didn’t
• Shabooya-Dennis
• Positivity Award: Thane
• Next week: PR day, tagging, writing love letters to Baltimore

Last week we told you all to go harass NP Baltimore on social media (in the nicest, most Canadian way possible) and you came through. Renee (sorry I don’t have the accent aigu on the e in your name, I am slow with technology and have yet to figure the out accents on my laptop) made a beautifully creepy short film in their honour, and made the whole NP universe say wtf? is going on in Winnipeg? This week we explained to you that NP Baltimore is our sister city, which is a secret we’ve been keeping from you since Summit back in July. Next week, we have more homework for you. As you come in from your PR run (which will be hella fast by now, end of the summer) we want you to grab a pen and an index card and write down basically whatever the hell you want. A quick note, a Canadian recipe, a classic NP YWG workout, your favourite things to do in Winnipeg, ask a question you might have for them, talk smack even. The list goes on, we’ll leave it open to interpretation. Then we will ship that off by snail mail to Baltimore. read more