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Wow, what a great week we had! Wednesday we did some hardcore parkour, we debuted roistees (reverse hoistees). Then we tried out a workout that we learned about at Meeting of the Minds, from our good friends at November Project Baltimore: the Baltimore 15 x 15. It was a real burner, and definitely one that we’ll be going back to!
-Dragon Boating August 16th 6am
-Guest Leaders Jess and Andrew so get ready for some lunges
-Sunrise 6K August 30
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Today was a tough one! We got back to the Oodena circle and rocked out the clock. We can thank the OG’s Rick and Tom for making those pretty much super duper hard, every hand of the clock ya hit. Especially when you get a couple RPS loses in the mix. My strategy today was always go rock. It didn’t go as planned. Please fill me in on your strategy as getting stuck on the ol’ Bojan’s are tough. I can’t decide which is more tough, the Bo or the Jan’s.
Winnipeg Notes:
•Sunrise 6K: good
•PR: good
•Scott wins positivity
•Mel takes 🔥📸
•August 16th: dragonboat popup
They say that a picture is worth a thousand words and Mel got us that 🔥🥑💸 content yet again this morning. So the following is a photo essay of the morning, with some colour commentary, comments by me.
– Sunrise 6km this Friday, July 26th
– PR / Tagging Day next Wednesday, July 31st
– Dragon Boat Pop Up Friday, August 16th
– Awesome turn out at Bomber Game
– Shabooyah goes to Katrina Froese
Some of us thought we were done with the stairs after the wicked stadium workout last week, some of us were wrong. What a great, hard, goofy morning. My highlight was our controlled chaos back to back best friend race. I thought this would be the most dangerous part of the workout with the potential of people running head first into one another at an all time high. I was wrong, cue the museum stairs. Not one, not two but three people fell up those stairs today. Being someone who has done this already this summer, I feel your pain my friends. No broken bones were had. Hope all bruises, scrapes and cuts heal quickly!
We thought we were done the stairs after a continuous 10 minute loop, but nope, MORE STAIRS. Finishing with a stair-sprint burnout was a fire finisher and you all brought that fire. Carter didn’t want to be shown up by super cute Bishop so he made sure to jump in for a race up those stairs, and he crushed it. You all crushed it. Good job team!
This Friday we will be at Fort Whyte Alive for our Sunrise 6K, NOT the Legislature. We will meet at the Alloway Centre. Show up before 6:14 to park and sign a waiver. We will bounce at 6:14 sharp, quick warm up and get to racing! Remember, there are two pairs of brand new Brooks Running Shoes on the line. You get to choose your own style, colour and size and have them shipped to you! The shoes won’t necessarily be going to the fastest finishers. We will be getting creative, so #justshowup to see how you can win!
We have officially booked our annual Dragon Boat Pop Up Workout, mark your calendars for Friday, August 16th. This is always a favourite event and we love seeing big numbers out. Bring your friends, bring your mom, bring your dad! More details to follow.
Last Friday, a big crew of NPers went back to Investors Group Field to cheer the Blue Bombers to their 5th victory of the season, with a final score of 31- 1 against the Ottawa Redblacks. This is pretty exciting because that makes the Bombers 5-0. The last time the Bombers started a season with 5-0 was in 1960, That’s history my friends! After the game, audience members were allowed down on the turf and some NPers got the chance to meet and chat with Blue Bomber, John Rush. A certain someone was even lucky enough to test out the plane! GO
Shabooyah this week was handed from Melanie Noble to Katrina Froese. Katrina is a constant positive energy at NP. She shows up all seasons, all weather. I believe this has to do with the fact that she is a seasoned cross-country skier and has embraced Winnipeg Weather to its fullest. Katrina, we are glad you’re here! Katrina actually works at Fort Whyte, where we will be racing this Friday. Even though she is unable to make the race, we will enjoy her workplace for her!
Don’t forget to bring a shirt to tag and a friend to race for PR Day next week!
That’s it, that’s all,
Chatty Y.
Winnipeg Notes:
– Stadium workout, y’all crushed it
– Bomber Game this Friday the 19th
– MEC Race #2 this Sunday the 21st
– Sunrise 6km #2 Next Friday the 26th
– SUMMIT in LAS VEGAS, Nov 15-18th
– Shabooyah goes to Melanie Noble
BOO-YAH Bomber Stadium workout! What a fire morning! Thank you to all 150 of you who came out and gave it your all at this wicked workout. Thanks to Investors Group Field for hosting us. Thanks to Lulu Lemon for bringing us a massive speaker. Thanks to Ivan for the drum solo for the Women’s World Cup inspired Bounce. Thanks to Melanie for taking some sweet pics. Thanks to Spencer for being keen to show up with less than a day’s notice to do some videography.
THE FULL SCHEDULE
Friday – Travel day.
Saturday Workout 6:29AM – Las Vegas City Hall – Please arrive between 6-6:20AM. Workout will begin at 6:29AM sharp – No shirts will be painted during the workout (see “Post Workout” right below). We understand you’re most likely racing at Rock N Roll, but please move your body with us. Standing around is NOT the way to kick off this weekend. There is a coffee shop with a bathroom within a block of the meeting place.
THE BUS Saturday Post Workout / 8AM Depart City Hall
Winnipeg Notes:
•Yvette is our new colead
•NP @ IG, July 17th @6am
•Bombers Game, July 19th
This morning was AWESOME! If you thought that because it was raining you’d get an easy workout, you were WRONG! We ran hills, we ran stairs, we did hoistees, we did squats and WE ANNOUNCED A NEW CO-LEADER!
We are super- duper excited to be bringing Yvette on as our new co-leader. Much in the same way that there must always be a Stark in Winterfell, there must always be a Page at the November Project Winnipeg. KIDDING! Totally kidding. Willie Mac and I waited until Derek was fully settled into his retirement home; enjoying weekly bingo, the guided 4pm nature walks and the tapioca pudding for dessert; before we discussed who we would call up to fill his role. Yvette was our number one choice, and that fact that she was Derek’s sister and the way that, that would be perceived was our biggest hang up, and it is certainly not a good enough reason. We are so excited for what Yvette is going to bring to the table. Yvette is always the first to offer a hand, she’s been attending NP YWG on and off for four years, whenever she was living in the city, and she’s a wicked fast skater. I’m unbelievably excited to be turning the Page and I hope you are too.
Y’all, next Wednesday WE ARE RUNNING THE STADIUM STAIRS AT INVESTORS GROUP STADIUM. Workout starts at 6:00am, wear clean shoes, and do not bring food or water onto the field. Get hyped, and be there! This is one of our toughest, funnest workouts of the year. It takes a lot of organization and finagling on both our ends to make this happen, so please show up to make it all worth it. Respond to and share the facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2080794805559346/
Call, email, text, send a messenger pigeon. However you do it, recruit someone to come to the workout. It’s gonna be major FOMO if you don’t show up.
Also, the Bomber’s have offered us a dope deal on group tickets for the game on Friday, July 19th. Tickets are discounted and will be $35, please bring cash to the workout on Wednesday, and you can leave with a ticket. That way, we’ll all be sitting together, and we can show the Bombers how grateful we are that they are letting us into their stadium. PLUS, if we get enough people to buy tickets to the game, they will let us on the field during the warmup, someone in our group will be allowed to hold the flag during the national anthem, we’ll get some free parking passes, a discount on the merch store, AND they’ll announce November Project on the PA and put us on the jumbotron. JUST THINK OF THE CONTENT! SO COME (and bring your Dad, or your daughter, or your brother-in-law)! Also, here’s a secret for you, you don’t have to like football to have a good evening, last year when we went, I literally do not think I payed attention to one play, you can drink a beer, people watch, yell randomly along with a crowd, there were dogs doing tricks on the field during half time, it’s a whole event. COME!
Fired up M
Today was PR, and y’all crushed it. We had a bunch of PR’s, a bunch of you finished the 3 laps for the first time, and no one got lost, so we’ll call that a win. We tagged a bunch of shirts and kept the tags fresh. 
Shelby won the PA, Shelby is awesome, she’s shows up all the time, she works hard, she’s always got a smile on her face. She is an amazing sailor and sailing coach, she brings her athletes to the workouts and she even changed their training schedule so that they are free on Wednesday mornings. Plus, Shelby has witnessed Willie Mac’s shenanigans for years, and does her darnedest to keep him in line. Shelby, we are glad that you are here.
Friday is the first in our Sunrise 6K series, we’re doing 3, on the last Friday of June, July and August. We’ve got 5 free race entries for MEC Race #2 on July 21st, so come out on Friday, run hard, and win a race.
That’s it, that’s all.
Concise M
Winnipeg Notes:
-Trash Stigma, Friday morning, June 21st, 6am, Garbage Hill
-Year Book Photos- just dropped- post ’em all over your soc meds
-Investors Group Stadium workout, Wednesday, July 17th
-NP at da Bombers, Friday, July 19th, tickets $35
This morning was hard; hard physically, hard emotionally. Derek’s parting gift was an incredibly tough workout, we will all be SORE AS HELL FOR DAYS. And the city’s parting gift was a whole bunch of sweet, lovely, heart felt things: there were cinnamon buns from Yvette, cookies baked and decorated by Erin, a shirt signed by everyone and organized by Will, a wood NP Toba, designed by Steve, a video edited by Gen and heartfelt hugs and goodbye messages of various varieties from everyone else. Last week Will asked me the over under on the number of Pages at the workout and I confidently (and correctly) predicted all of them who were in town would be at the workout. Y’all showed up in big numbers today for Derek, and that is a testament to what he has helped create over the past 3.5 years.
Winnipeg Notes (Quick history lesson; we write ‘Winnipeg Notes’ as a version of Cliff’s notes/Coles Notes or whatever you want to call them. In the past, NP cities woud write Wisconsin Notes at the top of their blogs to give a brief summary, as the leaders in Wisconsin argued that not everyone reads the entire blog, or something like that. We realized that at this point, writing ‘Wisconsin Notes’ doesn’t make sense for people from Winnipeg that don’t know that back story from six years ago, so sometimes we write Winnipeg, sometimes we write Wisconsin, just to keep it clear as mud).