In the order that unblocks the trip. Tap to tick; it remembers on this phone.
The one thing that blocks everything
Maryland has no confirmed gym and the class is Monday at 6am. Six days is a phone call, not an email. Every Week-1 state gets called in date order; Week-2 states get emails this week.
Ready to leave means: MD, DE, PA confirmed · State 0 filmed at Ballston · the camera → laptop → CapCut → upload chain run once, timed · Baltimore hotel booked · map, marker and shirts in the car · channel copy pasted. Everything else is nice.
0 done
Tue Sep 8
today · gyms first
✓Call the three Maryland gyms — Federal Hill, Harbor East, PUSH511.6am Monday drop-in OK? Filming OK? Fine being one of three in a viewer poll? Log every answer in the tracker.
✓Call the three Delaware gyms (Tue Sep 15). Same three questions. Log.
✓Shirts — where are they?If 50 aren't arriving by Saturday: 10–15 from a same-day print shop now, ship the rest ahead to a Week-2 hotel. The chain starts at state 2.
Wed Sep 9
week 1 done · week 2 emailed
✓Call PA, NJ, NY (Sep 16, 18, 19). Log.
✓Email the thin markets now — VT, WY, LA, WV.One real option each; they need the most lead time. Say the poll may be a one-horse race.
✓Email CT, RI, MA — all three candidates each.Inside the two-week window; today is the last day that isn't late.
✓Tier 1 affiliates — a VPN, a password manager, Amazon Associates, Tesla referral.One afternoon; pays from day one. Codes go in the Video Kit copy tab.
Thu Sep 10
the dry run = state 0
✓Full ritual at Ballston, on camera.Shirt trade with your coach → WOD → coach's challenge → "show me the one thing" → group photo → coach signs the map (#0). Pocket 3, Mic Mini, glasses. Every shot on the board.
✓Then the whole chain, timed: card → laptop → 45-min edit → npm run intro -- 1 → CapCut export → upload unlisted.Write down everything that broke. This is the test run; last chance to find out the mic dies at home instead of in Baltimore.
✓Email ME, NH (Sep 25, 26).
✓Post: "gyms confirmed so far."
Fri Sep 11
fix, book, batch
✓Fix what broke Thursday. Nothing new until that list is empty.
✓Book the Baltimore hotel for Sunday night, within 30 min of the gym. Ask for Monday late checkout while you're at it.
✓Sponsor batch of five — EVANNEX, Tesmanian, Tesmat, Jackery, Chomps.30 minutes from the pitch template, then stop. Not launch-critical.
✓Poll graphic for Maryland — the gyms that said yes. Ready to post Sunday 8am.
✓If the list is empty: Baltimore + Wilmington + Philly assignment-desk email.
Sat Sep 12
birthday · the wedding
✓Pack the car in the morning, before anything else.Cables, bedding, laptop rig, Pocket 3 + spares, Mic Mini charged, glasses charged, the map with a marker taped to it, the shirts, the printed State Kit on the passenger seat.
✓One shot, one line at the wedding.Don't skip it because the day is full — best contrast you'll get all trip.
Sun Sep 13
the drive
✓8am — Maryland poll opens on stories. Screenshot it.
✓Charge to 90%+. Trip odometer reset — film the screen. December's payoff shot.
✓The departure shots: packed car in the driveway, front door, pulling out, the Maryland sign on I-95.
✓Drive ~3pm. 55 miles. In the hotel by 7.
✓7pm — poll closes. Message the winner: "You won the vote — see you at 6am." Thank the other two.
✓Sixty seconds to camera once you arrive. Start the habit before it counts.
✓Asleep by 9.
Deliberately not this week
GMRL 1.2 submission — only if it's one Archive click. The tap ritual can start in week 2.
Local news for states 4+.
Any new tooling. The pipeline works; the risk now is in the car, not the code.