Author: Rick

Wisconsin Notes:

• Positivity Award given out to… The Parking Garage! Congratulations, well deserved!
• Feel the Bern.
• Rain and #weatherproofiness

When I woke up this morning I was pissed.  I didn’t get enough sleep and the weather app promised me that it wasn’t going to be raining in the morning. And it was. Harder than when I went to bed. The reason I was pissed is because we had an AWESOME workout planned – we were gonna arrange everyone based on their ________ and make you run around doing _________, __________, and a couple of the classic ____________. I was super pumped for it because it was new and different and was sure to be super hard and fun and basically the best time ever. Unfortunately it required use of other parts of the forks and just wouldn’t be quite as awesome in the rain.  So reluctantly, we switched up the plan to go to the parking garage and completely changed the workout plan in about 5 minutes of brooding over morning coffee. The best part about the whole thing is that I get to tease you all with the above blank spaces. Show up next week, it’ll be worth it. read more

Wisconsin notes:

• Baltimore.  Just cause. Or maybe there’s a reason?  Do it.
• Danielle because friends are great
• Renée’s video skills – creepy, but awesome?

I am constantly learning things from November Project. So far from this summer season one of the lessons that has hit home the most is the power of this community for someone who is new to a city, or perhaps coming back after a long absence, or even just looking for a new group of friends or to step outside their comfort zone.  This lesson hit home for me when Jamie showed up at his first YWG workout a few months ago – it was incredible to watch the crowd welcome him here that day, but even more amazing is to see how someone can go from knowing absolutely no one in a new city to having a huge social group that hangs out regularly on weekdays, weekends, and the occasional early Wednesday. Sure it helps that Jamie is fast as fuck and that beard belongs in a lumberjack calendar (word on the street is that the girls and some of the Toms have been calling him Hot Jamie, which is totally inappropriate and everyone please start doing that now). But i’d like to think that we would have welcomed him, beard or not – cuz thats what we do. And he has a dog so there’s that. read more

Wisconsin Notes:

• Over 100 of you decided it was a good idea to work out in the rain. Who does that?
• I’m still sore from garbage hill pop up last Friday
• BIG ANNOUNCEMENT NEXT WEEK. Don’t fucking miss it.
• Brad’s jacket and snowpants will one day be retired in the NP Hall of Fame

Let’s get something straight. Working out in the rain is not fun.  Not a single one of us does that regularly (except Junel, dude is crazy), or would ever have really considered it before NP.  When I woke up yesterday morning (yesterday, I know, blog is late, but it’s a good one I promise) it was pouring rain outside.  The sound of the rain was really nice in my comfy bed – that is until I realized I had to get up and work out in it.  I actually thought we would be a fraction of our usual group – Winnipeg is pretty good at cold, but rain?  That shit is different for sure, right? read more

Wisconsin Notes: We are two years old.  In mind, body and spirit. That’s all you get today, Wisconsin.

January, 2016:

Tom: Did you just verbally commit to getting 200 people to a workout in June?

Rick: I blacked out.  Did I?  Fuck.

Tom: That’s a lot of people.

Rick: Fuck.

Tom: Fuck.

The above conversation pretty much sums up this morning. It was, to be polite, un-fucking-believable. There was more than 250 people at the Forks bouncing this morning. 250. Just look at that number. Two Hundred and Fucking Fifty. Plus. There are literally no proper words that can describe the epic shenanigans that went down this morning, so instead of trying, we will just focus on thanking the several people and organizations who helped make this morning a success and helped get us to this point in our young existence: read more

Wisconsin Notes: Throw down your P.R. times on the NP Tracker and sign the waiver (create an account) if you haven’t because risk management is NEAT and EXCITING. This post packs all the feels (drink the kool-aid, join the group), almost as much as we are feeling KAITHLEENs endless positivity.

Community: com-mu-ni-ty: /kəˈmyo͞onədē/ read more

Wisconsin Notes: Tim is a bad-ass. You did an entire deck of cards, you beautiful beautiful mess. Sign the Waiver. It’s good.

Wow!  What a wonderful summer we had.  Time on the beach, basking in all the glory that a wonderful Winnipeg summer brings.  I got out to the cabin a whole bunch – not sure about you but I didn’t spend a SINGLE weekend in this wonderful summer of ours in the city.  It was great.  And now, alas, we must kiss goodbye to the sweet sweet summer wonderfulness and say HELLO to the cold dark grip of another Winnipeg winter.  I for one am ready for it and looking forward to MONTHS and MONTHS of cold, dark workouts and not seeing your faces behind your buffs.  WOOHOOOOO! read more