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A Trip to Remember

A Trip to Remember

Deciding to go on a twenty-six hour van ride should really involve a lot of thought and some amount of deep deliberation, but all it took was a conversation between the three of us that mostly involved making sure our calendars were clear. After a countless texts, dropouts, van arrangements and Airbnb debates, it looked like it was going to happen. Fifteen human beings making up a cross section of the tribe met for the Friday bounce and got hyped to sit in a van for the next thirteen hours. read more

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Tales Of Badassery

Tales of Badassery

“She’s such a badass!”

“That dude is such a beast!”

These are snatches of phrases you can often hear during a workout. There are so many inspiring examples around us and it is easy to fall into awe when we recognize the qualities the we aspire to possess. We look at the people at the front of the stair line and watch them leap into the lead, scaling the stairs three at a time and wish we could be that fast. It’s easy to fall into the admiration game and only see the strongest and best among us. People do seemingly impossible things all the time when we get together, and we see the amazing handstands and the six minute pace runners ahead of us. There are so many inspirations within the tribe to look up to, from people running all kinds of distances to overcoming different kinds of life obstacles just to make it to a workout. I don’t think I’ve ever been surrounded by so much badassery in my life and every time I think I’ve seen the best, someone else takes it up to another level. read more

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Views from the 5

Courtney runs stairs , trails and beyond

I’ve lived in Baltimore for about 10 months now, but I’ve been holding the city at a distance. I hadn’t quite decided if I liked it enough to fully commit. Recently, I realized that’s a stupid way to live my life. So I began my “summer of yes”. I would say yes to things when it was easier and more comfortable to say no. I would be curious. So when Jana, Tammy, and Lerman, were asking around for a fourth team member after a sweaty Wednesday workout, I said yes. I blame the post-workout high. You know that almost manic euphoria you feel after a tough workout? That temporary amnesia when you tell yourself you could totally run a marathon next weekend even though you almost puked doing half a set of stairs not even five minutes before. Without the “summer of yes” and dehydration-related delirium, I never would have agreed to do my first trail run (not race, RUN) on a mountain somewhere in Massachusetts. But I did. read more