Look at these gorgeous people - NYC BridgeRunners.  Time and again I post about them on Shutupandrun because I’m constantly reminded why we are authentically - family.  Last Wednesday was a perfect example. 

Last week Nike celebrated the launch of the Nike FuelBand, a watch that tracks all types of movement and raises the bar for the fitness game. The night kicked off with a run out of the BridgeRunner base, Bowery Stadium.  We showed some friends from Nike in Portland the route out over the Manhattan Bridge and back over the BK, snaking through Chinatown back to Stadium.  Sweet & Vicious hosted the crew for an after party replete with pizza (pine nut and arugula toppings - YES) and drinks. 

The after party to the after party at the Niketown “Fuel the People” event was where BR was quintessentially - BR. 

The scene: QuestLove DJ’ing, Niketown transformed into an event space with product displays replaced by bars flanking the atrium, and fancy people … sipping on drinks against the wall.  No dancing? Yikes.  BR fixed that. 

John Law (@johnwatermanlaw) took to the empty floor with breakdancing moves.  Quickly a circle formed, people peeled themselves from the walls, and a little B-Boy battle went down.  Then a BridgeRunner-led Soul Train line ensued until the dance floor jumped off in a fury of booty-popping and photographer bulbs flashing. 

It became a dance party worthy of QuestLove’s beats that culiminated in BridgeRunner craziness when Watch the Throne’s Ni#@as in Paris came on.  This song, darlings, played on Freaky Fridge’s bike during the midnight run on NYE and seems to serve as our current power song. 

What’s the moral of the story?  Kelis-style: We could teach you, but we’d have to charge.  The real after party happened after Niketown, but you have to be a BridgeRunner to hear that story …

Photo by speedy Keith Morrison