It was another glorious morning for a run in LA’s own Santa Monica Mountains. Our last day at the Griffith Observatory was marked by some all-encompassing cold and some real hustle on a challenging new (and likely now-dead) PR course.
The concept was simple but as we’ve said before, simple and easy aren’t always the same. Essentially 3 miles of ups, downs and flats on both trail and road proved to be the day’s challenge and it was met by all. We wanted to create a course that held the best of our January home and one could say today could be called “Observatory’s Greatest Hits” if we had a different goal in mind.
But with the threat of never running such a course for time and as a tribe again, what was the goal? Seeing how there’s no comparison to be made in the future, why charge forth and do our best? Why get up so damn early to this? In this case, I think the answer is in the question: because. We get up because we get up. We run because we run and we push ourselves because that’s what the f$*# we do.
People often ask me for reasons why NP is so early or why we run so much or why we don’t do it later or why I don’t just swim or why why why why why why why why WHY WHY WHYW HWhwhwhwohwywhwywhyw!!! I say “BECAUSE you silly asshole. Because we do.” There’s a lot of reasons why things are structured the way they are here at NP but at the end of the day the best answer is what they taught you to say to deal with inquisitive bullies: “because”.
Today you all could have taken it easy. You could have been satisfied with whatever you got for a time and you could have even not shown up but you did. In fact, as time keeper at 6:30 I noticed that people were finishing as hard as they could but they didn’t seem to give a damn about their times because the only gage they needed were themselves. And that’s how we roll.
Do great LA. You always do.
NEWS
NEXT MONTH Wednesdays will be at Drake Stadium at UCLA, 5:27 and/or 6:27 am. Parking sucks but we can figure it out. Pins will be dropped.
THIS FRIDAY we’ll be at the La Brea Tar Pits, 6:27 am. Pin is on the tracker.
CONGRATS to Jesse and Raleigh for being the only two to enter our video contest and therefore winning entries to the LA Marathon
HOMEWORK for February is to encourage a stranger either on a run or in a class or wherever. Spread NP love to everyone and maybe you’ll even find an in to invite them to what we do. Don’t be creepy about it but engage those around you and keep recuriting.
BUFFS will continue to be at workouts. Email novemberprojectLAX@gmail.com with questions or to get on the wait list for the leftovers.
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