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As of December 13, 2023, November Project Amsterdam is not meeting anymore. These posts were written before their sunset.
The most amazing workout was back at it again with another heart pumping, glute burning, and burpee packed workout. What an amazing morning spent sweating it out with these strong people to celebrate our 1st Anniversary!
Thanks to Diana Simkauskaite her poem, I directly got the energized feeling of that Wednesday morning back again.
Last week we had our last #six2summit workout with two of our most creative badass girls, who can let everybody sweat .
Diana wrote a guestblog about Hijacking #NP_AMS:
When your alarm rings at 5am and instead of pressing ‘snooze’ you excitedly jump from the bed, could mean only one thing… It’s Wednesday morning!
Q: WHERE DO I PARK? A: OPEN this Google Map
HOW DO I GET TO THE STADIUM? HOW DO I GET AROUND?
If you find yourself asking these questions, let’s thank our local transportation guru Ari Ofsevit for compiling the following info. Read as much or as little as you want (it gets really fucking detailed down at the bottom, and in the middle, and pretty much everywhere) but definitely read the part about parking for the Friday morning workout at Harvard. And give yourself LOTS of extra time to get to the stadium.
This email serves as a pre-thanks to the two DJ’s who are going to be holding it down for the NPSUMMIT. Number one is local legend Laura Ingles of Boston. Number two is new-kid-on-the-block and Co-Leader of November Project Virginia Beach Barry Clark. Laura will host the rise & shine beatdown inside the Harvard Stadium that will open the weekend early Friday morning and Barry will bring down the house at The Lawn On D Street on Saturday night, which will close the weekend. If you’re thinking, “I don’t know much about all of this that you speak of, this “N..P.. Summit” and I really wish I could click here and find out more details.” I hope that you go back and click there. If you already know what’s up, continue onward/below.
The last ten months have been like a rollercoaster of new adventures and brilliant new challenges.
The day I have been asked/slightly forced to verbal my first attendance at November Project was the moment I knew directly this is where I can get stronger, where I can get faster and also where I can learn how to motivate others and myself!
This is the blog post you’ve been looking forward to since the announcement was made that the 5th annual November Project Summit #NP5UMMIT is going down in Boston, MA. The weekend will start off with the stair workout at the iconic Harvard Stadium, followed by some serious trail racing at the North Face Endurance Challengeat Wachusett Mountain, and will commence with the most epic social of the year! I know, the word “epic” is overused in describing anything from fun to exciting, but if you’ve been NPSUMMIT4.0 you know what I’m talking about (even if you haven’t been you know what I’m talking about.)
In a couple weeks, I will leave you – my badass tribe – for the weeks leading up to summit. But before I go, I am going to leave you with a few important #hashtags. LISTEN UP.
#six2summit: During the six weeks leading up to summit, every Wednesday morning will be different – in a good way, a really fucking good way. These six weeks include April 26, May 3, May 10, May 17, May 24, May 31. Here’s the deal: each week, leading up to the workout, you will find out some teasers for the next Wednesday – for instance, maybe who’s leading it and therefore will be able to hype the shit out of it. Saskia is not going anywhere, she will always #justshowup, but this is an opportunity to see what you people got in terms of remixing songs to bounce to and coming up with the most awkward things possible to make your fellow adult children do at the ass crack of dawn. I’m gonna say it again, this whole thing is going to be really f*ing cool. Moving on to…
Today more than ever we felt the strength of November Project Amsterdam. To be frank: we crushed it. Saskia stood quiet and dumfounded in happy tears for an entire 45 minutes. There was confetti shot in the wrong places, there was a lot of sugar, a lot of stairs, and a lot of hugs. And it turns out that the tribe pushes harder when the workouts are up to you – looks like you all enjoy telling other people what to do – I’ll remember this. To follow, is a note from Edoardo – a guy who pushes his limits no matter what, and never forgets to drag you all with him. He thinks today was good. He thinks every day should be like today. He’s right, don’t you think?
It’s International Women’s Day. Here is what that means:
Beyonce led our bounce.
The women crushed it.
And so did the guys.
Today may be International Women’s Day, but we all run the world. Each one of us is in charge of our own world. Each one of us – equally – has the power to make our day, our community, our week, and our world, great. It starts the minute your alarm goes off, and as BG explains HERE, that moment after deep and peaceful sleep, when you are jolted awake by an unusual series of foreign noises, is the moment you get to make your first decision of the day. For all of you at the workout today, f*ck YEAH. You took that moment and embraced it full force – you knew that that shitty, shitty moment was happening in bedrooms all around Amsterdam, and just like you, your #weatherproof NP friends would be embracing it too.
Sometimes November Project isn’t about seven different kinds of burpees and never-ending staircase- sometimes it’s what makes your city home. From our Maya Papaya with love:
When I started writing down my thoughts this morning, I did not have the intention to send this off to Annelise, but here I am proofreading, and realizing that I get quite cheesy! Yikes…. but truthfully….#sorrynotsorry.