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Hello World: Meet Emma!

Hello friends – meet our latest Positivity Award (PA) winner Emma Israel!

  • How, when and where were you introduced to the November Project?

A few weeks after I moved to Austin, Texas for grad school, I checked out a random running group I found online, the Morning Jo’s. I spent the run chatting with the group’s founder, who also happened to be the co-leader of NPATX and a former NPDC member. I had heard about NP before that but had always been nervous to try it out. All it took was one friendly face telling me she hoped to see me in the morning and I was hooked. Huge shout out to Rachel W. for being that person! When I moved back to DC last year, the very strong former NPDC cohort in Austin made it clear I had to start attending DC workouts as soon as I arrived, which I did! (Hi Rachel, Gina, Scott, and Katie!) read more

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Science Fair Workout!!

Welcome to science class!! We’re going to be combing up some great moves to see what we can come up with in this workout that may be a bit explosive!

How this works

You’ll rotate through the moves for each round for the time indicated (it changes every round so pay attention!) At the end of each round, we’ll spend 1 minute doing whatever move those combined into! So for example, for experiment #1 you’ll rotate 10 reps of squats and 10 reps of jumping jacks for 4 minutes. Once the 4 minutes are up, you’ll do 1 minute where you’ll do 1 squat and 1 jumping jack. read more

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Field Trips and BINGO

Group picture of November Project Toronto

November Project Toronto had a busy August and it looks like there will be more of the same in September! Now that we’ve been back in person for a month, we want to try something new. Beginning at our Labour Day Monday workout on Sept. 6, we’re going to temporarily workout in Riverdale Park East! That’s right, for the rest of September, all of our workouts will be at Riverdale Park East. Meet on the west side of Broadview Ave. just south of Langley Ave. near St. Matthews Clubhouse. read more

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Together again (Toronto)

November Project Toronto workout in March 2020

After 74 weeks of Zoom workouts, we’re so excited to welcome you back to in-person workouts in Toronto!

Our first workout back in-person will be on Wednesday, Aug. 11 at 6:26 a.m. outside Gates 5/6 of the Rogers Centre. As you’re aware, the province of Ontario is currently in step 3 of the “Roadmap to Reopening,” which means there’s no cap on number of people at outdoor workouts, as long as everybody can stay 2 metres apart. So things won’t be exactly as they were the last time we had an in-person workout. read more

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The Family I Never Knew I Had

Did somebody say Traverbal? What…? Is that even a word? Did I just vomit a word into that opening sentence? Maybe? It’s fine. It’s a word. It’s a word that describes one of the things I’ve learned to love to do. If Webster was to create a dictionary definition of the word it would sound like this. Traverbal: To do cool, fun, crazy, random shit that makes you sweat with other crazy, fun, random people all around the world. Often very early in the morning, when the regular people of the world are busy sleeping. Oh, and you bring a passport shirt, or blanket, or both. Maybe even a puppy sweater. A hat? Anything you want. Then you get it spray painted with the unique tag of that location, it’s kinda cool. Mine’s the best for sure (shout out Joel to tie-dyeing my shirt for me in LA). read more

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Passionate, loud, happy even at 6am.

Sarah:

We got into the November Project much like most people in Kelowna: peer pressure from Roz.

I was working at Boomers, and Roz would come in to cheer on Grant. She kept mentioning that she was leading this thing called November Project Wednesday mornings and I should come.

The problem is, that I’m an EXTREME morning person. By 6:30 when it starts, I’m usually finished my morning run, and my morning workout. Not to mention I usually start my day job at 7 am. I figured it was one of those events that fell into the “awesome, but not great for my schedule” and kept ignoring Roz’s advances. read more

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What Time???

When I moved from Calgary a few years ago, I began looking for a different kind of group work out that would be fun!  I did not have any success until last year. I was running in the Hungry Half and a group called November Project was doing the warm-up portion of it.  The person that led this warm up was Kwame and he stated that this group runs every Wednesday morning, meeting at the Sails at 6:29 am.  Rain or shine.  It is free. JUST SHOW UP!!!  WHAT 6:29 AM????  What sane person would wake up so early to do that???  read more

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My name is CARLI

Hello Everyone!

My name is Carli, nice to meet you all! I am the quiet one in the pink sweater.

I have been apart of the tribe since October 2018 and have been there almost every week since I started going. I have been following NP on Instagram for a few years now and have wanted to join in but was afraid to go alone. When I saw my good friend Jordan was going I knew it was time to join the tribe!
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November Project is Kelowna’s welcome wagon

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My first impression of Kelowna can be described in 2 words:

ROZ HUBER

I had lived in Kelowna for a grand total of 6 hours before I met Roz. The way I see it, November Project is Kelowna’s welcome wagon. At least that’s the way it went for me. 

It was Sunday. I was walking down Pandosy to meet a friend for coffee when I saw what I thought was a surfer chick standing at her car. Long curly hair, backward trucker hat, blue crop top, drinking coffee in the hot sun. Not coffee from a to-go mug, but a coffee cup resting on the roof of ther Volkswagen. This is the first friend I made in Kelowna. 
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