Free Fitness Movement. All you need to do is show up!
Before you read my ramblings, read these notes on Sunrise 6k. If you’re still interested afterwards, then go ahead and indulge this blog post.
WHAT!?: (Use this for your instagramz today) A 6k race for everyone. Seriously…everyone.
WHERE?!?!: HERE, DRUID HILL PARK! Yes, that exact location.
I’m about to tell a potentially embarrassing story, but it’s a story that has come to dictate a good many things in my life (and honestly, at this point, who gives a shit about embarrassment). It’s also the story I was thinking about while I was holding a plank in damp sand surrounded by 130+ other people.
This is an open letter to all of our NP vets, those of you that have been around for months or years, rarely missing a workout, always working hard, always saying yes. Thanks for being there.
Now do something most of you don’t do that often ( I only say this as one of your fellow, speed through life at 100-mil per hour type folks) and stop. Think back to the first moment that you realized you had friends and community waiting for you
at 6:30 am. Think about what that moment looked like, and what it took to get you to that point. What was the moment that took you from an outsider to someone who was truly a part of something.
Dear other tribes members,
This letter goes out to all you tribe members, the gazillion of you all over the country and world. Baltimore has something for you. And no, it’s not proximity to DC or easy access to I-95 so you can go visit “college friends” in NYC. It’s also not Harvard Stadium so stop asking. It’s a very simple workout we call “15×15.”
We’re going to keep it short and sweet today. Let’s do this Wisconsin Notes Style.*
*Wisconsin notes are a way of abbreviating the most important lessons learned from our workouts. This does not mean we are going to Wisconsin, that any workout will ever be in Wisconsin, or for that matter that we even like Wisconsin. It’s just the name…ok!?
That’s right ladies and gents, warmer weather means that “Skin is In.” Just a few short weeks ago you cats were all
bundled up in your Nordic chill wear. But now the weather is starting to turn, the less than weatherproof are crawling back out of their hibernation pods and Skin is this season’s biggest fashion accessory. The next few months are going to be golden, so start bringing your friends, your family and anyone else you think needs a little love in their life. We’re serious. NP is way more fun if you have someone to text later in the day, moaning about how sore your calves are.
Wisconsin Notes ( What we call it when we’re kind of tight on time and need to get up a blog. Maybe we’re tight on time because of work or maybe we’re tight on time because Mr. Tastee is now serving up sweet treats in the neighborhood.)
As always, Take Big Bites Out of Life,
Today, a wall went up.
Sometimes, a huge barrier to your spectacular workout plans erects itself in the middle of your park. You wake up, get yourself in the car with a large pitcher of coffee ( I drink coffee in pitchers only!), make your way down to Rash Field only to find out that the wall that was SUPPOSED to be along the border of Mexico is actually in the middle of your workout location. So what do you do? Your co-leaders are off gallivanting through Ecuador, riding mules and getting matching butterfly tattoos. You sit down and cry, that’s what you do.
From the first icy mornings of November Project, our fitness movement has pushed the limits on what “fitness” should look like. Since the first days when Brogan and Bojan were up in Boston, freezing their tails off through the bitter New England winter, this “fitness movement” has been surely but slowly toeing the line on the way “fitness” looks in this country. NP is not simply about having fun with your community, it is representative of a much larger conversation that needs to happen about the way people are permitted to be fit. It is that conversation that makes this movement so damn important.
WIIISCONSIN NOTES:
