Author: Laura

Breakdown of what you missed this morning:

We played a little game of baseball. With every lap of the bases you complete, you scored a run. Add up the runs, win the game. Simple enough, right? Of course not. Our first mistake was assigning the First Base Coach position to Paddy O’Leary, one of the only people at the workout who has probably never picked up a bat. If you got the signal from Paddy, you were allowed to ‘steal a base’ and skip to the next one. Unfortunately, no one knew when to steal a base because he was making signs like this at them: read more

Ah, good ole Corona Heights. Never know what you will get up there and today she spit up a half assed sunrise with a sprinkle of orange glow at 6:29 AM. But we didn’t let the sunrise disappointment and blood quenching mosquitos ruin our party. We were going to shower in champagne before work no matter what the scene. Because this is Corona Heights. read more

I keep rewriting this intro sentence because even after two years I still don’t know how to segue into a Sam story. Due to the cyclical nature of November Project, many people at the workout this morning did not know Sam. Sam; our perma-smile, backwards hat wearing, nut butter enthusiast, who changed the chemistry of a workout by just simply showing up with her bee-bop sidekick, Sasha. The world suffered a huge loss two years ago when Samantha Dweck was killed in a tragic kayaking accident. And while time moves on, the ones who loved her most don’t miss her any less. read more

As the start of the workout I made the mistake of thinking “oh! Maybe it won’t rain!” Appropriate for the day, I feel the only response to that is WRONG! WRONG!

As the rain poured down, the tribe trekked into the pitch black presidio to run muddy hills and climb over trees. If there was ever a day we needed those waivers, it was definitely today. On the other side of the hill we had the concrete monsters pounding away, with the Rogowski parents taking home the gold for ALWAYS being camera ready. Unfortunately, the photographer was NEVER ready so when Caity’s mom said “Take a picture of me climbing on his back!…Now take a picture of both of us on Caity’s back!” they came out like this.  read more

Listen, Monday’s are really hard. Every Sunday, Paddy, Josh and I start a text thread to plan out the week. 9.98/10 I will be the first one to respond with “I’LL LEAD ANYTHING OTHER THAN MONDAY.” Like a defiant middle schooler, I slide out of bed on Monday mornings, crawl to the bathroom and splash water on my face until I convince myself to not return to bed. Some mornings I am so lazy I sit on the toilet (with the lid down, thank you very much) and wash my face and brush my teeth while sitting down. It’s the most pathetic display of “being a morning person” that you have ever seen. read more

You know 2017 is going to be a weird year when at 6:29 AM Paddy is the only leader at the start of the workout.

This morning both Josh and I missed our alarms, which resulted in a full on panic attack wake up call when I realized it was 6:26 and I was still curled up in bed. Remember in middle school when you missed the bus and your parents would shamefully drive you in to school and scold you the entire way about how they were now going to be late for work? I was determined to get there by 6:29 to avoid the Paddy scolding that would inevitably happen for the rest of my existence. Luckily, it was too dark for people to notice the deep pillow lines on my face and retainer still in my mouth (just kidding, I would never go out in public with that thing) and I seemed to get away with it scot free. But where was Josh? read more