Category: Milwaukee, WI

Wisconsin notes:

1. Sunrise 6k this Wednesday morning. Show up as usual at 5:29 and 6:26 am, ready to run
2. If you still have cash to give to our O’Donnell Park staff, please bring it Wednesday
3. Tergeython is on Thursday. Direct all questions towards Will Bott

We all have a lot to be grateful for. It seems to be more obvious when things aren’t going “well”.

Take, for example, having the stomach flu. Your innards do a lot for you to keep your digestion, electrolyte balance, and hydration in check and steady. But give your stomach one little bug and all seems to be wrong. In reality, it’s your body being *right*, trying to fight whatever is infecting you, but it hurts. It’s the worst to be laid up in bed, throwing up your intestines, when all you want to do is eat food like a normal person. read more

PPG (Penelope Pinky Graham) has been alive for a little over one year.

She’s seen a lot of changes within the tribe. She’s experienced the addition of a 5:29 workout. She’s been inside Miller Park for a November Project workout. She’s seen a winter, a summer, a spring, and a fall. She’s been through Summit in Boston, Summit 5.Moo in Wisconsin, and a summer race season. read more

Avocado Recruiting (YEG)

Edmonton is super cold. Like shake-your-bones cold. They also apparently like avocados there (?). At least Nadim does.

I experience the same thing that Nadim does quite often. I forget to listen. To try to understand the person before I sell them something. To understand their barriers, their fears, and the things that make them jump out of their beds, feet hitting the floor with fury, to run into their day, uninhibited and open to learning new things. read more

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could wake up

In the morning when the day is new

After having spent Wednesday together

We could burpee Friday morning too?

Roger, DG, and I have a tendency to say the word “nice” a lot when we’re searching for that perfect descriptive term.

That sunrise? nice read more

Another month gone, another four weeks of training behind us. And Wednesday is our opportunity to show what these four weeks have done for our hearts, legs, and minds.

Sometimes when I show up to PR Day, I plan on taking it easy. I get it into my head that I’m “still sore from yesterday”, that I’m “not going to PR because the past month has been busier than usual”, that I’m “just so tired” and that the “early mornings have started piling up”. But as soon as I arrive at The Calling and see all of the tribe, my emotions and the adrenaline gets the best of me. I can’t help but push myself when I’m working with everyone else, suffering with everyone else… celebrating with everyone else. read more

There is something beautiful that comes from sweating profusely in the sun.

Sometimes that happens at our Wednesday/Friday workouts. And sometimes that happens at a mini-Summit in the Kettle Moraine State Forest.

But no matter where it happens, sweat reminds us tangibly of the work we put into our lives. read more

TNF’s Endurance Challenge Series WI week is here… bring on Summit 5.Moo.

Here’s a ton of information you should know so that you don’t show up Saturday unaware of details, or so that you don’t forget that it’s happening this weekend:

1. If you want a sweet, sweet discount on any distance of your choice, use the code: NP15WI
2. Lodging information and last minute team sign-ups are listed here
3. Need a trail map/course guide so that you don’t get lost on the relay like Scott and Zachary during this past weekend’s 10k? We’ve got you covered.
4. Word on the street is that we will have NP people racing and visiting from Milwaukee, Madison, Chicago, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, New York City, Boston, San Francisco, Baltimore, Ottawa, and Milwaukee’s very own Austrian. Take this opportunity at #minisummit to meet people from around the country and world – it only happens a couple times a year.
5. The relay starts at 10 am. But there are people racing the marathon, 50k, and 50 miler, so don’t miss out on showing up early and giving these tough lads and lasses a hug before they’re off.
6. Bring snacks, stuff to tag, sunglasses, sunscreen, water, and cow-cheese-milk-beer-related Wisconsin-y things.
7. Post-Summit 5.Moo party is happening on the Terrace in Madison. The plan seems to be that people will slowly trickle towards the city of Madison after everyone has finished and will stay to consume beer, ice cream, and mingle.
8. At least one cow suit will be making an appearance.

Here’s a ton of information you don’t need to know, but might be oddly interested in: read more