Happy (almost) 4^th of July everybody!  The 4^th is my absolute favorite holiday for a variety of reasons, but mainly because it serves as a great excuse for guilt free grilling, beer drinking, and meat eating.  This is my first year not spending the holiday in Wisconsin with my family.  I must admit this has left me a little bummed, but I’m excited to see what a West Coast 4^th of July has to offer.  Of course I’ve gotta give a big shout out to all the troops and their families that continue to make our freedom possible.  I hope all of our fine servicemen get to spend some time with, or at least get to talk to, the ones they love on the most American of holidays.

Workouts have been going well; I’ve been running as much as I can in an effort to stay in some semblance of summer shape.  I’m not up to my pre-marathon mileage quite yet but I feel strong and healthy.

Happy 4^th everyone!  Stay healthy and safe!

-Derek

Several members of the Baltimore team are spending some time this week in Dewey Beach, Delaware. On Sunday, Ben Cole, Perry Menzies, Emily Parmenter, Matt Mazza and I did a 5 mile run from the South of Dewey up to Rehoboth Beach and back. The loop was beautiful to run around, as we hit the boardwalk and ran around Silver Lake on the return trip. We also finished the workout with a few sets of pull-ups and push-ups.

Chris Diller, Sarah McColley, and Kelly Welsh also got nice runs in on Sunday morning around Dewey, with Chris doing a beach run.

It’s always great running around Baltimore, but it is definitely a treat having the Atlantic Ocean on your left for a mile. We hope everyone enjoys the Fourth of July on Wednesday. It’s going to be a great morning to get a workout in before you relax in the afternoon.

Enjoy the week.

-Team Baltimore

Side note: We also have over 10 people signed up for the Dewey Beach Triathlon in September.  Registration is almost full, so if you’d like to join us for a weekend in Dewey, sign up now.

http://www.deweybeachtriathlon.com/

Saturday at the Lake. Family starting to roll in which means only one thing. Intense competitions regardless of what we are doing. My soon to be brother-in-law and myself went for an easy 4 mile run on Long Island (New Hampshire) and blew by my sisters on their run. It was a long day of chores followed by a nice run, swim and a push up/pull up contest with my brother-in-law. Great Saturday. Always thinking and thanking the military members for their contributions which make it possible for us to celebrate with friends and family during this incredible week, especially with the 4th of July approaching.

AR. NF. NR.

Nick

Team Friday has been traveling and working like maniacs the past few fridays so its been a little hectic getting the Friday post out but nevertheless here we are.

I had a great workout with my Mom (Granite Girl Team Tuesday) at the local YMCA early in the morning. I did a HIIT workout (High Intensity Interval Training) on the erg. 8500 kilometers with an all out effort every 5th minute. I was exhausted by the end but my Mom wanted to see some ball/core exercises so we did about 6 sets of 20 reps on the ball and planks.

Great workout leading up to my Sisters Wedding week. Nothing beats Lake Winnipesaukee in the Summer except a workout on the water up here.

AR. NF. NR

Nick

The heat wave is coming through Hudson, but the workouts continue.  I went out for a 3 mile run today and followed up in the gym with an upper body workout.  Working out solo is never easy but the dedication helps get us all through it.  Looking forward to celebrating July 4th.  Thanks to everything our Troops did and continue to do.

Until next Thursday,

Tim

Hi everyone.

Late post due to some unforeseen family circumstances down in Boston but it was good to get my blood flowing yesterday morning before the rest of the day was spent with my husband helping him recover from his surgery.

I went for a 30 minute run in Needham, MA. Very hot and sticky but always great to get a sweat going early in the morning.

Keep up the good work.

xoxo Granite Girls

Hey gang, its Monday again, which means its sadly back to the grind of the workweek.  I’ll tell you, its amazing how quickly the weekend flies past.

The past weekend was a great one for me; my buddy was in town on leave from his Navy deployment and we tore it up.  He’d been out on a ship the past eight months, training, helping impoverished nations, and sailing the seas, so I think hanging with a landlubber like me was a nice treat for him.

While we were hanging yesterday, he taught me an awesome workout he and his buddies would do to pass the time on the ship.  It’s a pretty basic cardio routine involving a deck of cards, some squats, sit-ups, squat thrusts, and push-ups.

You start with a deck of cards and assign each suit an exercise.  When I tried it this evening I assigned sit-ups to hearts, pull-ups to diamonds, squat thrusts to clubs, and push-ups to spades, but any variation will do.  Shuffle the deck and pull a card.  I believe the first card I pulled was the two of clubs, which meant I did two squat thrusts.  Do the exercise and pull another card.  Face cards are assigned the value or ten and Aces eleven.  So, for example you pull the Jack of Hearts, you do ten sit-ups.  It sounds a little silly but I’ll tell you, it was wicked hard.  I got through only about a third of the deck before I was totally spent.  It’s a really fun and different kinda way to work out though.  Try it out this week!

Alright guys, hope all of your workouts are going well.  Catch ya next week!

-Derek

We had another beautiful early summer weekend in Baltimore. In between the Orioles beating up on the Nationals this weekend, members from Team Baltimore went out and got active.

Mike Kirby went for a 3 mile run this morning in his new We Are One 365 – Baltimore Tee. The new Baltimore colored tee-shirts are in and they look great! Contact the We Are One 365 team if you are interested in getting one.

Baltimore had a visitor for the weekend, Jeremiah Trostle.  Jeremiah took advantage of the gorgeous Baltimore  scenery and went for a 4 mile run along the Inner Harbor.  

I have yet to get my workout in for the day, but shortly after this post I will be heading out for a run down to Fort McHenry.  If anyone wants to join, let me know!

It was a great weekend here in Baltimore, especially with the Orioles taking 2 of 3 from the Nationals. 

Have a great week and lets go O’s!

Crazy Saturday over here on the West Coast. I was packing for most of the day since I will be going back to the East Coast (New Hampshire) for a while and then off to Europe and then who knows where. So because of all of this, I decided to do some 100 pushup in between every suitcase that I had packed. Not saying it was the greatest workout ever but I was definitely tired by the end of it.

I decided to get a good bike ride in along the coast down into Santa Monica and Venice before the sun went down since I am not sure when the last time I will see the Pacific Ocean. I’ll keep you updated though. Hope all you 365ers are having a great weekend.

AR. NF. NR.

And Congrats to my brother for making the Under 23 National Crew Team. World Championships are in Lithuania the week of July 8th. Best of luck buddy.

Nick