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The “Run”209 Squad

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This one is a very special shout out to two individuals who say they have a “Running” / “Fitness” Group in the 209 … We would never actually provide a proper shout out to anyone that attempts to bring a community of people who are trying to better themselves … however these two people are making a mockery of what 9RUN6 is all about … in short they are HATERS … send them a couple of tweets but DO NOT follow them…

To prove us at 9RUN6 WRONG … we challenge you guys to invite us to a proper workout out there … we will show up in Lodi and participate …

 

 

 

 

 

Fleet Feet Free Holiday Classic

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What: Fleet Feet Free Holiday Classic 5k Run/Walk
When: Sunday, December 13, 2015 at 8:00AM (Waiver sign-in, t-shirt giveaway) 9:00 am Race 5K and Kids’ 3/4M start
Where: The Start/Finish is located at Sutter’s Landing Park at 28th & A Street (North of Railroad Tracks)
Who: EVERYONE

Do all those cozy holiday gatherings make you sweat? Run for the chill of it! Join Fleet Feet Sports of Sacramento for the 9th annual Holiday Classic Fun Run. The race is FREE. It’s our gift to the running community. The race began as a lighthearted reason to gather for a run during the holiday season and has developed into a toy drive for the Salvation Army. This year the Salvation Army can use the support of the running community and the community at large in these tough economic times. Our goal is to fill a Salvation Army truck with your donations.

For more info visit the official Fleet Feet Sacramento website: http://www.fleetfeetsacramento.com/races/fleet-feet-free-holiday-classic

 

The workout before CIM

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With the California International Marathon coming this Sunday, a number of our members are partaking in the relay or full marathon so today was somewhat awesome … actually everyday is awesome.

The 5:30AM group took off on a short run which ran the last 1.5 miles of the course before finishing at the Capital to pick up the 6:00AM group. That group did the normal run out to the Tower Bridge.

At 6:25AM it was all about paper, rock, scissors for the workout … If you won in the heads up competition you did 10 push ups, sit ups and squats … if you lost then you had to do 15 … lose twice in a row it added 5 reps to each … lose 3 times in a row then it went to 20 … you get the picture.

Good luck to everyone partaking in the marathon weekend and thank you to everyone that will be part of the weekend as a volunteer or cheering along the course.

Don’t forget tomorrow we crash the CIM Health and Fitness Expo at 12:00PM for the Tweet Up… here is the info …

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Hey where’s everyone at?

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So today it was F’ing cold out for the 5:30AM, 6:00AM and 6:25AM groups at 9RUN6 … It actually never warmed up for the group. Nonetheless, the hard cores made out and got their workout on, on this fine Black Friday. You can say we were part of the #OptOutside movement for today.

The excuses started coming in on Thanksgiving evening as Alexia sent myself and Run BMC a text message saying she wouldn’t make it … Then at 5:32AM I sent Kevin a text, asking him where he as and if he was going to make it … mind you he only lives about 10 minutes away by car. He said the following …

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Alexia providing her out for Friday morning
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Alexia providing her out for Friday morning

Without Alexia being there we figured out that our resident ogre aka Ethan wasn’t going to make it either. I honestly think that Alexia locks him up in some sort of cage when she cannot make it to a morning workout. There is a pattern of him not showing up when she isn’t there.

So with Katie making it out for the 6:00AM group along with BMC and I, we started to make our way out to the Tower Bridge where the group typically picks up McRuner … and to our surprise he wasn’t there either … WTF is going on here?!?!?!

At 6:25AM the group started the west steps workout and we saw miniature creature running around with a headlamp… come to find out it was 1/6th of the FitFam6 group … also known as David.

The workout for the morning was 100’s which involves 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 step-ups and 100 squats … the key to this workout is once you start an exercise you have to finish it before moving onto the next one. The brave and badasses for this morning knocked out the workout as the sun came up and it was time to start the rest of the day.

Throughout the day, we will be trolling social media sites to see who found a way to get up and go shopping but didn’t have the balls to get up and workout this morning … there will be various postings throughout the day giving these people delightful shout outs on the blog …

Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving … now don’t forget to get your Winter Challenge Day 2 taken care of at some point today!

No Excuses Week … Get to the West Steps

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no-excuses-largeOkay this week is when people travel … err come into Sacramento for the Thanksgiving holiday. This also means plenty of people have either Wednesday and or Friday off of work with the Thursday holiday. With this being said it, there is no excuse to miss a workout or both of them.

As your friends and family come in tackle the holiday eating with a couple of 9RUN6 workouts, so you can feel a little less guilty when you chow down on that grub!

In case you are unaware of when and where to meet up here is the info …

Every Wednesday and Friday at 6:25AM (running only groups also meet at 5:30AM & 6:00AM at the corner of 10th & N Street) in front of the West Steps of the Capitol, here is the address: California State Capitol , 1315 10th St, Sacramento, CA 95814 (West Steps are the steps facing the Tower Bridge).

For those of you planning on your Black Friday shopping, we want you to know that some of the 9RUN6 members will be trolling Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to call you out on Friday if you aren’t able to make the workout, complain that we meet up too early, yet are able to get your ass out of bed and go shopping at some ridiculous times of the day.

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2015 Winter Streak Challenge

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The challenge is really pretty simple, all you have to do is stick to it! Figure out some sort of activity that you want to streak with (push-ups, running, walking, anything active that involves exercise), set a minimum numerical value to that movement (1-mi, 10 reps, 1 minute hold, etc) and do it every day from November 26, 2014 through December 31, 2015. Try to have a streak that is different than one that you have already done or are currently in. If you are doing a running streak maybe select some sort of body weight exercise like push-ups or pull-ups, etc. You get the picture now make the pledge….

1) Use the photo above and caption it announcing your commitment to staying fit from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or your blog and use hashtag #9run6

2) Hold yourself accountable by making the goal realistic. Your streak can be whatever you want but it has to have a minimum (such as 1 mile a day or 10 burpess, 1 minute plank) of WHATEVER YOU WANT! It’s your streak we just want to help you during the holiday season!

3) Announce that you completed your activity each day on social media …. here you can even cut and paste the following: I just did (ran , cycled) _______ to complete my daily commitment for #9run6 Winter Challenge.

4) Have fun with it, you can even post your commitment in the comments section below and check in on others to see how they are doing.

This is all about having fun while supporting one another achieve individual goals. It isn’t a competition, no matter if you run 1 mile or 10 miles a day or do 100 burpees or 10 pushups, keeping yourself active is all that matters!

Make the pledge and join the fun!

So What’cha Want

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IMG_2763So the group started of strong with the 5:30AM and the 6:00AM run only groups that meet at 10th & N Street … but when the hard stuff started at 6:25AM on the west steps of the Capitol, only the strong survived it and were ballsie enough to stay for workout.

Today’s strength workout was the 99 problems remix … yup 99 push ups, 99 sit ups , 99 squats, followed by some running … then adding on with the extended version of 100 step ups and 100 tricep dips … then it was all over BOOM.

It wasn’t anything too fancy today but we got the $hi7 done in the 30 minutes on the west steps for the strength workout.

What’s on tap for this weekend for you guys? Also can we get some commitments for next week? Leave it in the comments section below and get with us …

9RUN6 Gets Bottled!

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So sometimes we can get excited when we walk into the local Whole Foods Market and see the 9RUN6 brew on the shelves in the beer section! Boom … today was one of those days …

The back story of the brew …

Back in January we collaborated with Yolo Brewing Company out of West Sacramento to deliver the <5% brew that is delicious after a workout or run. Over the last few months the brew masters over at Yolo have been putting the work in to make this masterpiece as awesome as possible.

While this was going down The Pony Express Marathon was working on promoting their 2016 May 1st Marathon in Sacramento. As part of a collaboration between the two parties, Yolo Brew is releasing a 4-part beer marathon relay series. The first of the beers in the series is none other than the 9RUN6 …

Check out the brew … this one was located at the Whole Foods Market on the corner of Arden and Eastern in the Carmichael area of town …

Sweet Cakes Brings Snacks

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IMG_5444When 6:25AM on a Wednesday or a Friday rolls around sometimes you never know what is going to come about. Sometimes people come up the steps with different things … today on particular  we had a guy we call Cakes come up with a box of Teddy Grahams …

So this blog post is mostly about Cakes … how could we not? I mean check out these photos and video and I think these captures the moments better than any words can explain…

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and now the video …

Have a kick ass weekend!