Free Fitness Movement. All you need to do is show up!
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Spring is coming and it’s time to play outside!
Run, walk, hike (or crawl?) some hills to participate in November Project Montréal’s Apr-hill challenge! Log at least 1000 m of elevation between April 5th and May 2nd to claim your special Apr-hill 2021 tag. Yes, a special once-in-a-lifetime tag you can only get by completing this challenge!!
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Good morning everyone!
You made it to November which, considering 2020 as a whole, is quite an achievement in itself. But November can also be that time of the year and it restarts to be yucky out there, daylight is short and our overall motivation takes a dip… Enough reasons to make two guys want to start a “project” to keep themselves active nine years ago… 😉
November Project has always been about making our cities more connected through free all-level fitness.
So when Florent & Fauve told us they wanted to launch a little challenge to get people moving and try to go visit a different running club int he city every day for a week, I immediately thought it was an amazing idea. Now, a couple of weeks later, they have organized a full-out open challenge for everyone with some cool prizes to win.
I’ll let the two of them explain in both anglais et French, in good Montréal fashion!
– Laurent
Our incredible Jemal ran his first half-marathon without really expecting to. Here is his story, enjoy!
– Laurent
Leaving my house around 7h30pm for a night run, I didn’t really set a goal for how long to run. Caught up with a running buddy in Chinatown, we headed to Parc Jean Drapeau over the amazing Jacques Cartier!
So there’s this RunAround125 race happening like… Tomorrow! Organized by our good friend Gophrette Power, this 125km relay race around the entire Island of Montréal is going to be a lot of fun! Some of our members saw The Speed Project happen from far away this year and so were excited to try this mini-version right here in our backyard!
And so, Le Cirque du Sore Legs was born! How was this team picked? Well, they were the first ones to put their hand up when they heard “… run 125 kilometers… blablabla … relay … blablabla … a ton of fun … blablabla … it will be really hot!”. And so now, for the next act of the NP Montréal circus, I present to you the team!
– Laurent
This week, our dear Mehrsa looks back at her experience over the last few months here in Montreal and how we went not believing she would ever look forward to waking early on Wednesday to exercise in the cold to loving it! Enjoy!
– Laurent
I moved to Montreal for my studies, but studying was not the main challenge. Until then, I had always been under the protection of my parents and friends in my hometown. I saw myself surrounded by responsibilities at once in a totally new context, out of my comfort zone. I had to deal with adulthood, immigration, and the tough school programs all at the same time, and most importantly, I needed to step into the new society.
This week, we welcomed Dora Hsiao as our new co-leader here in Montréal, and we could be more excited! Dora has been such an incredible member since she started “just showing up” to our workouts and one of these quiet yet incredibly powerful leaders! Dora and I sat down to share what our favourite November Project things were so you can get a taste for what is to come!
– Laurent
So many announcements, we had to write a blog post about it!
It’s (finally) summer here in Montréal and if this isn’t your first, you probably know that it means the city comes out of hibernation and “all the things” start happening at the same time! Let’s go over everything happening at November Project!
Let’s recap the last few weeks and our quest for legs of steel!
Across many cultures and traditions, that egg-citing “apr-hill long weekend” is celebrated differently:
… But we at NP have a different tradition yet: egg-exerises!!!
To continue in the spirit of Apr-hill, we met up at McGill University and after a quick warm-up, were on our wait to McTavish street and its famous hill! Hop stuff I tell you! And what a surprise, a scavenger egg hunt was waiting our yolks! In everyone of them, some fun egg-ercises were waiting:
What an exciting week again! While we were busy running those hills and pushing those push-ups, our friends back at the NP HQ were cooking us a soup of awesome news! There are also 2 big races coming up over the next 2 weeks! Let’s recap everything!
A big brand-new sponsor: Brooks!
November Project is super excited to announce that it partnered with Brooks Running as its new global apparel and shoe wear sponsor! Brooks is deeply committed to what makes November Project such a unique place to be and to be a part of: welcoming all to running and activities for the joy it brings, the community it builds and how it betters the world! We couldn’t be more excited about this and have such a great company with a long history backing us as November Project keeps on growing!
Brooks’ influence will be multifaceted, including financial support, access to new footwear and apparel, resources for our leadership training and the annual November Project Summit, entries into Brooks-sponsored running events, and activations on a global and local level. You can be sure we’ll let you guys know how this will impact us here in Montréal!
Want to read more? Here is Brooks official announcement: https://talk.brooksrunning.com/blog/2019/04/17/brooks-november-project-join-fitness-forces/