Category: San Francisco, CA

Today’s blog comes from Collin Evans. Collin who, until this morning’s workout, was the most recent recipient of the positivity award, wrote about what NP means to him and why it’s important. Needless to say, we love what he’s written and the way he’s shared the ethos of NP. We’re glad you’re here, Collin. Take it away. read more

After we tricked you into working super hard on Monday by throwing a game of tag into the workout, we got an onslaught of messages telling us how sore you all were. We love hearing that, so we decided to make Wednesday just as hard. Agility is something that Zip used to do with Tweeners back in the day, bringing his DI soccer skills to the table, but we figured it was time to bring it back to the main stage today. And unless you’re Ryan “Speedster” Scura, you probably realized that it’s harder than it looks. Don’t worry, we’ll be bringing it back soon enough.

We have a bunch of announcements for you:

This Friday, hills are in the East Bay at Claremont Canyon. Meeting spot is here. Let’s show some love to NP OAK and all the East Bay badasses who come west for Friday hills almost every week.

Next Friday is the main event – Sunrise 6k! Treasure Island, 6am, NPSF and NPOAK face off in the annual Sunrise 6k race. Not to be missed!

We have a carpool doc for you that has a tab for this Friday (Claremont Canyon) and next Friday (Sunrise 6k). Add yourself, add your friends, add your enemies. Bring em all!

NP Summit is September 14-16. Here’s a doc you can use to find a relay team and coordinate with other tribes. We also want to hear your stories. During Summit, they will be filming unique stories from people across the 49 NP cities. Have something interesting to share? Add yourself in this form! Even if you’re not sure if it meets the cut, or you aren’t going to Summit, we definitely want to hear from you. These answers will stay only with us 3 until you tell us otherwise.

Don’t worry, we made a calendar for you guys to help keep track of all this good stuff. Check it out in online here, or use this link to add it to your own calendars.

Happy Wednesday Party People!

Growing up, I played three sports: soccer, basketball, and baseball. One basketball game we used to play, especially when there was one ball and an awkward number of people was a game called Signout. It’s basically a massive game of 1 on 1. If you get a rebound or steal you call someone out and that person comes out to defend you. If you score, they’re out of the game. Repeat until there is a lone champion. Whenever you got that ball, calling someone out was the best. Because if you scored, you could talk as much trash as you wanted. You owned them! You sent them packing!

Now there’s a lot in that game that doesn’t at all translate to NP or the ethos of NP but the act of calling someone out and playfully shit talking them is something I still love. I miss it in fact. There was an era when Jorge (Rest In Lander) would call people out with me on something called the Bikegang Report (sidenote: I honestly challenge you to find some of these videos). Then there was our old sister city, Indianapolis, and their HSTIC (Head Shit Talker In Charge) J-Keys–total legend–who used to fire people up and call them out when they hadn’t been showing up for the group.

We all have those friends that need a little kick in the pants. Whether it’s their first workout or their 101st. Some people just need that friendly callout to be reminded that we want them at the workout. That we need their energy. So let’s light that fire. Don’t be afraid to call that person, tag that person, or just physically poke them until they come and join us. Boop!

HILLS

New spot! Dewey x Pacheco streets in the Sunset. Meet here.

 

Day 2 of November Project is a struggle. You’re a rockstar. But day 2, you’re still new but you’re just hoping that person you met last week remembers your name. Some people remember you from day 1, but there’s still so many unfamiliar faces. It’s a real challenge to push through those early days to carve out a place for yourself but just on the other side of that is a community and a group that will encourage and support you fully. read more

So you know how people who don’t live in California think that California is one big beautiful, sunny, warm beach? Well nothing like coming to SF during the summer to crush that fantasy. That’s what we did to the leaders from all of the other NP cities that were in town before the leader summit this weekend.Insert the Mark Twain quote about his coldest winter being a summer in SF here. You expected nice weather? Well you get fog. And lots of hills (sorry Virginia Beach for the rude awakening). But throw in an NP workout with some box jumps and planks and you still get a lot of happy people, so at least we gave  you that.

Friday Hills are at Mount Davidson with our illustrious guest leader Perry Wang. 6:28am at the Vista Point https://goo.gl/maps/m9pAq5yyjrR2.

Happy Fourth of July SF! While normal people might think “I get a day off of work, I guess I should sleep in and chill”, you crazy humans show up at Alta Plaza Park at 6:30am (or 5:30am – we see you Vivek and Henry!) to take on the day and absolutely crush a difficult workout. That’s what I love about you, especially since Zip and Tony are off biking across the continent and I was worried I’d end up there alone.

Because I’m left to my own devices this week, I decided to step up my photo game. You might of seen me running around with a fancy camera. Did I look like I knew what I was doing? That’s good, but I didn’t. Those of you who I made stop mid star jump and do it again multiple times (i.e. Perry) so I could get the perfect shot probably already know that. TIL that having a fancy camera doesn’t actually make you a good photographer – working on it!

I tried to make the workout form a flag if you used Strava. Alice just sent me hers, and my assessment is that it looks like more of a fork but I think I’m ok with that for today too. So in that spirit, eat up that BBQ, drink that beer, listen to the fireworks that you inevitably won’t be able to see through the fog. And then I’ll see you all Friday at Moraga Steps, meet at the top at Grandview Park at 6:27am https://goo.gl/maps/AG5zAmjf6Ak. See you then!

Today, on yearbook day, we took photos with our Summer of Love theme. It was very SF. People looked great.

All I could think about was Paddy at the Summer of Love and it made me laugh so hard.

A huge huge thank you to Ryan for taking photos this morning. Ryan has given so much time and expertise to November Project (the whole movement) over the years and we are the luckiest beneficiaries of his talents here in SF. Can’t wait to see how good he makes us all look.

Hills

Bernal on Friday!