Free Fitness Movement. All you need to do is show up!
Do you ever stop while you’re at November Project? Stop and take a picture? DUMB QUESTIONS. We’re a group founded on free pictures of fitness. But for real, just stop, look around, and think about what it means to have all those humans there moving together?
Think about your first time you were at November Project. HEEYYY it is 6:30 let’s get a little bounce. A WHAT. I don’t get it. Why is everyone jumping. Omg noises? A HUG? What have I done. This can’t be cool. No way. This is not cool.
Is that confusing to you? Maybe you weren’t there this morning? Or you were there, you shouted 21 HUMP BEAT HUMP BEAT HUMP BEAT 4 or 5 times and you just didn’t know why? That’s cool. We appreciate your enthusiasm.
Find out more about the growing family and what #21HumpBeat really means HERE.
Someone get the National Park Service on the phone. I saw at least 18 times as many bears this morning at Lincoln Memorial than I did in ALL of Alaska (this trip, all trips, and a lifetime growing up there).
There is no better way to get off a plane (OR out of bed OR wherever you came from this morning) and snap out of vacation land and back into reality like having your alarm go off in the 4th hour, rolling out of bed and being reminded why DC is the sweatiest, fittest, most positive place to be and live and be a bear.
Two things that humans have been able to count on since the beginning of time. The sun will rise (over the flat earth) and November Project will run 6Ks while it happens (over a smaller section of flat earth).
We pushed the tribe this month to build our community. To build it in numbers and size, to get more people out running Lincoln logs, having hills for breakfast, scoping out new Friday locations and racing 6Ks at sunrise.
PACIFIC NORTHWEST, we’re coming for you. For a hot minute. Actually though, a HOT minute. We heard Washington state is pushing 90 degrees, which isn’t much cooler than the Washington I’m in now and probably not much cooler than the So Cal Brogan’s sweating in.
I am Kaelan. I am from Alaska, living in Washington DC, co-leading November Project in Washington, DC. And about to get on the greatest flight across the country back to the #pacificnorthwestcoastbestcoast and get my sweat on with anyone and everyone at Gas Works Park.
Your Friday surprise was brought to you by the letter SUPER FUCKING DEEP STAIRS and the number YEAHH TRACK WORKOUT WHAT. But hey, you earned your weekend and now it’s on to Friday and Saturday and Sunday and then the FUNNEST day. If bamboons say funnest, so can I. You might be thinking, well the day after Sunday is Monday, so is that the funnest day? COULD BE. Because there are hills, and we’re addicted and endorphins happen and etc. Or you might, like I sometimes do, leap ahead a few thoughts without verbally making the connection out loud, or on paper (/blog) as it may be, and realized that the FUNNEST day is going to be the SUNRISE 6K day.
Some people who show up to Meridian Hill Park have run hills before. Some have run serious hill workouts, with a coach and an interval and a heart rate goal and other serious sounding athletically inclined things. Some have done them more like a hill here, a hill there, a hill when it presents itself, a hill when there isn’t a way around the hill. Regardless, most of us run down that hill, look up and it and think, “Holy shit. That’s a lot of hill.”
WHOA. #RecruitEveryone is being taken seriously. Straight face, straight back seriously. A lot of racers, a lot of new faces, a lot of fruit cocktails. You weren’t there (CAUSE WE KNOW SOME OF YOU WEREN’T)? Don’t know what we’re talking about? Like actual fruit? Plastic fruit? Baked and wired serves breakfast fruit cocktails? We’ll never tell.
If you didn’t #justshowup this morning you missed PUPPIES. Pups who work out for free, pups who got out of bed, pups who wanted to see their friend pups, pups who earned their kibble and crushed their Monday. You missed pups that are probably curled up in a little puppy naps somewhere. That’s all there is about puppies. If you want to stop reading, I get it.
It is a new, fresh month. We started June with fresh tags on a fresh day, kicking off a fresh week. Anyone eating fresh Cava later? Anyone else recovering from rolling in fresh grass? No? Ok, cool.
Do you get it though? EVERYTHING is fresh this month! Today is the day to kick it up, drop the BOOM, start what you didn’t in May. June is the month of the SUNRISE 6k. It’s the month to BRING IT. Right now, are you thinking, “CRAP I didn’t know that this morning! Should I have done something different on the hills?” NAH Man. You are GOLDEN. You got your butt out of bed and ran hills. Hey, you probably even SPRINTED up a lot of parts of those hills. You are already bringing it to June like no body’s business. Watch out San Francisco June, we’re coming for ya.