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Shout out to the dude who needs his beauty sleep

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Meet Benny .. he is a familiar face to 9RUN6, he typically shows up to workouts on Wednesday mornings.

The reason for this shout out is because he told a couple of members of 9RUN6 when asked,” Hey Benny see you on Wednesday?” … he responded with “Yes”.

It was brought to our attention that he didn’t attend the workout this morning … his reason … he didn’t wake up until 8:30AM … I guess dudes that work so damn hard to look so pretty do need their beauty sleep … nonetheless … he missed a workout after committing to it so that’s why he is our shout out of the day …

When are you going to join us again Benny?

If you were at the workout today … send Benny a tweet and let him know you missed him …

I didn’t choose 9RUN6, 9RUN6 chose me

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Yes we are referring to the famous words of Tupac … well he actually said:

I Didn’t Choose The Thug Life, The Thug Life Chose Me

We are primarily speaking of the enjoyment of the 9RUN6 as a group, from workouts to everything else that comes with 9RUN6. Many have become the closest of friends … I mean we have seen a 9RUN6 wedding … We have even witnessed the creation of a couple through 9RUN6 …

Anyways today was about Sparta and Sprints … we hauled ass after breaking down our legs and loved it! So the Sparta part of the workouts is as follows, and done as quickly as possible:

  • 50 jump squats
  • 50 push-ups
  • 50 leg lifts
  • 100 lunges
  • 50 tricep dips

Each exercise was followed by a run about 1/10 of a mile.

Once everyone was done it was partner sprints with a line drill style of increasing distances.

With the workout complete the peeps headed their different directions and started their days.

Another Wednesday with new faces 

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Another awesome Wednesday morning went down today … we had 2 new faces for the 6:25AM group, a new face at the 5:30AM group and a whole lot of paper, rock, scissors.

The excitement is building with Shamrock’n Half Marathon this weekend. This energy is carrying over into the workouts themselves, even by people who aren’t running the race this weekend. It takes a full group to make good things happen and this group is for sure making good things happen!

Back to today’s workout, we played a good few rounds of paper, rock, scissors with every 10 minutes changing the exercises. The first 10 minutes involved push-ups, sit ups and squats, the 2nd 10 included burpees, star jumps and lunges, while the 3rd and final 10 minutes were bear crawls, v-ups and knees to chest.

For the winners they only had to do 10 of each exercise, for the losers it was 20 … if you lost consecutively then it added 5 to the 20 … lost 3 in a row it was 30 and so forth …

See you Friday and hope everyone is having a kickass Wednesday!

Paint, Pints & Grub

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So we always look for reasons to get together mostly through workouts, but sometimes we like to get our social on. The next social is going down on Saturday March 12, 2016 at Yolo Brewing Company in West Sacramento.

The day before Shamrock’n Half Marathon which many of our members are going to be participating in. Here are the deets …

When: Saturday March 12, 2016 from 4:00-6:00PM

Where: Yolo Brewing Company located at 1520 Terminal St, West Sacramento, California 95691

Who: For everyone! If you wanna meet some awesome 9RUN6 peeps, are running Shamrock’n Half or just wanna hangout with us, come by.

What:  It is a potluck style event, so please bring something that you want to share with other people, it doesn’t have to be anything fancy. Also bring a shirt and we will gladly tag it for you! We will have black and white paint so keep that in mind when selecting your swag you want tagged.

More info or to join in the conversation join the Facebook Book Event (https://www.facebook.com/events/1328228777204255/)

Let’s do this 

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It’s Wednesday, so what else do we do? We tackle whatever workout is in front of us. Today some people started with the crew at 5:30, others at 6:00, and some at 6:25AM on the west steps.

Some came and went during the various workouts for whatever reason… Someone said something about having to build some plans for some school district being built, while others left early because of some work stuff that dealt with driving somewhere and others left because they nearly shatted on themselves. 

For the running groups we pushed the paces pretty well and pretty consistent today. Then when 6:25AM rolled through it was time to knock out some 50 to 5 action. This mixed in some running, push-ups, sit ups, squats, and jumping jacks. The workout is pretty much like if a rhino humped a jaguar and they had a baby gazelle. 

Today’s workout was awesome and only happens because awesome freaking people committed themselves to getting up and coming to workout without any fears of breaking a sweat or keeping up. Trust me, come out and you can really experience … In one word …. AWESOME! 

9RUN6 Homework!

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Rarely do we assign homework, but when we do it typically is pretty easy or pretty awesome!

This one is pretty easy to do. Here is a step by step on your homework …

  1. log onto Facebook.
  2. Go to the 9RUN6 Facebook page.
  3. invite at least 5 people to like the Facebook page … you are not limited to 5 … I mean if you wanna invite 100 or 1,000 that would be cool too.

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Let’s throw dice 

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  The crew came out strong again today, except we were missing one familiar face … If you happen to see Run BMC please return him to the west steps on Wednesday and Friday mornings. 
The typical runs started off the morning with the two groups meeting at 5:30 and 6:00am. Though this morning we were treated with a revisit by a former regular who is going to be back in full force with us … Yup David is back! 

 

With 6:25 rolling around it was time to throw down some dice … A new workout prop that had two groups throwing down dice to equal a certain workout and rep count. 

For example throw a snake eyes (2 = 1 on each dice) and the group was treated to 200 jumping jacks. Each number had a various movement, most of them being legs so it was a treat to get push-ups or crunches. One group seemed to get plenty of mountain climbers while another group busted out plenty of star jumps. After each exercise was a short out and back run. 

With 30 minutes of pouring liquid awesome and wobbly legs it was time to call it a day with this group of awesome individuals. 

Have a kick ass Wednesday and see you all on Friday.  

Project 30 … Let’s get there

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Bring yourself back to the good old days of elementary school. Specifically when you had the opportunity to get out of the classroom and run the mile. Most classrooms had about 30 kids in your elementary class. The teacher would line everyone up for a “start” line and everyone would take off running. Some kids took off while others were towards the end, but in the end there was very little open space between each kid running, maybe a couple of yards and even some groups running alongside each other. The gap was minimal and everyone had someone to chase in front of them.

Now lets translate this to 9RUN6, if we get 30 people out to a single workout this is what it would look like. Little gaps between each person who comes out is the goal. This keeps the group together, competitive, but also leaves no one behind.

Currently we have about 15 regulars who come out to either a Wednesday or Friday. Now if everyone brought out 1 -2 people each on a regular basis we could achieve the goal of 30 people at each workout. Then once we get 30 regular faces out to these workouts, then we can talk about that 100 person verbal that I have made.

For the newbies … 100 people at one workout equates to me getting the 9RUN6 tattoo.

Hundosssss

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Today we got together ran and were surrounded by awesome people.  The run groups started the morning off strong … I mean real strong … Then rolled the 6:25 group and that strong got taken to another level with today’s HUNDO workout …
What the f is a HUNDO workout? It’s 5 exercises of 100 reps each with a couple laps around the west lawn between each one. 

Today’s movements were 100 push-ups, 100 sit ups, 100 step ups, 100 dips and 100 squats. The order didn’t matter. The only thing that did was if you started a movement you had to finish it off before moving to another one. 

Special workout shout out today goes to our very own Shane Barker … Not because he didn’t show up, but because he left early … Why did he leave early? To go to 24 hour to get a workout in … So in tradition we talked about him after he left …. Bwhahaha. Hope you have thick skin Shane because you’ll be wearing this one for a while hahaha. 

Another West Steps Wednesday

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It’s another Wednesday morning and the group begins to gather at 5:30AM … this group is starting to come together strong … but not as strong as the 6AM group that met at 10th & N Street. Today the 6AM group was stronger than the 6:25AM group in terms of numbers, however in terms of physical strength when it comes to the workout for today, the winner has to be the 6:25AM group …

This morning we did the #ThanksKatie workout … yup because Katie is the one who suggested the format of the workout … which makes it really tough … not only do we go through the workout once, but we climb up the workout then we scale it back down like a ladder …

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here’s the workout

Yup once the workout was done in about 20 minutes everyone was ready to start their day. The group even admitted this morning that even though sometimes it is a pain in the ass to get up on a Wednesday morning once the workout is done and the rest of the day falls into place it is well worth the early morning wake up and jump start.