MVXC25 had a great first day of practice! The team met for the first time on Saturday, August 9, at 7 AM, with 32 athletes ready to hit the trails. Your coaches were impressed–the team went to run Up and Over because there was a bailout option, instead of running the big Prospect hill, athletes could come back on the railroad tracks. However, almost everyone decided to push themselves and go all the way up to the top! There was some walking, but that’s OK; this is our first day. Keep pushing yourself and you will be running nonstop to the top sooner than you can imagine! Your coaches were impressed by your spirit; let’s keep that going.
Seriously, we all did great today. This is a solid brick of a workout. Keep stacking bricks, day by day by day, and you will have an impressive structure. Distance running is a long term project–but if you were here today, you are off to a great start.
An Enthusiastic Cheering Section at the top of Up and Over!
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Sore Knees?
There were a couple athletes that have said their knees were sore. Here are a couple basic tips that can help:
- Make sure you have shoes that are well-fitted to your foot, relatively new, and in good condition. Please don’t buy a pair sight unseen on the internet–go to a running store and get fitted. It’s worth it.
- Foam rolling can help! Buy a foam roller–I don’t want you to purchase shoes online but I am fine with a $10 foam roller from Amazon. Even if your knees are fine now, it’s a good idea to proactively start foam rolling your IT band. Here is more discussion about rolling your IT band to help prevent or reduce knee pain.
Later in the season, Coach Triya plans to work with kids on IT band treatment–she has a more experience than she would have wanted with IT issues and can help us be more resilient.
What Name Do You Want?
I’ll be setting up our roster in the databases that we use to enter athletes in races, such as XCStats and Athletic.net. I will use your names that you registered with but if you want to use the name you use everyday (e.g. Yoyo or Lucas) please message me on Discord with your preferred name and I’ll comply if I can.
Roster Status Update
Here is an updated roster status. I expect Mr. Bonacorsi to look at all the Pending applications on Sunday, so if you have any issues, please try to sort them out on Saturday and reapply for clearance before he reviews the applications.
| Firstname | Lastname | Sport | Status | At 1st Practice? | |
| 1 | Akshat | Ambekar | Cross Country | Clear | Yes! |
| 2 | Shouki | Baba | Cross Country | Clear | Yes! |
| 3 | Krishna | Batni | Cross Country | ???? | Yes! |
| 4 | Raghuram | Chandramouli | Cross Country | INC | |
| 5 | Jonah | Chang | Cross Country | Clear | Yes! |
| 6 | Constantine | Chua | Cross Country | Clear | |
| 7 | Lucas Hao-Chun | Chuang | Cross Country | Clear | Yes! |
| 8 | Aidan | Cushman-Kihnley | Cross Country | Clear | |
| 9 | Oliver | D’Souza | Cross Country | INC | |
| 10 | Aanya | Dhua | Cross Country | Clear | |
| 11 | Zeynep | Dogan | Cross Country | Pending | Yes! |
| 12 | Vaishnavi | Eranti | Cross Country | ???? | |
| 13 | Tarun | Gandhi | Cross Country | Clear | Yes! |
| 14 | Ethan | Ge | Cross Country | Clear | |
| 15 | Samuel | Heinonen | Cross Country | Clear | Yes! |
| 16 | Miranda | Hsu | Cross Country | Clear | Yes! |
| 17 | Naomi | Hsu | Cross Country | Clear | Yes! |
| 18 | Darren | Hsu | Cross Country | Clear | Yes! |
| 19 | Eva | Huang | Cross Country | Clear | Yes! |
| 20 | Pranshu | Jha | Cross Country | Clear | Yes! |
| 21 | Abhi | Kotari | Cross Country | Pending | |
| 22 | Sarah | Kumar | Cross Country | Clear | Yes! |
| 23 | Caroline | Labudde | Cross Country | Clear | Yes! |
| 24 | Iris | Lee | Cross Country | Clear | |
| 25 | Sophia | Li | Cross Country | Pending | |
| 26 | Josiah | Lim | Cross Country | Clear | |
| 27 | John | Ling | Cross Country | Pending | |
| 28 | Kaitlyn | Lum | Cross Country | ???? | |
| 29 | shayan | mahajan | Cross Country | Clear | |
| 30 | Vikram | Mallya | Cross Country | Clear | Yes! |
| 31 | Jayden | Mattekatt | Cross Country | Clear | Yes! |
| 32 | Myra | Mishra | Cross Country | Clear | Yes! |
| 33 | Kento | Murase | Cross Country | ???? | |
| 34 | Chelsea | Nie | Cross Country | Clear | |
| 35 | Aric | Obaidur | Cross Country | Clear | Yes! |
| 36 | Taylor | Orr | Cross Country | Clear | Yes! |
| 37 | Rajit | Pandey | Cross Country | ???? | |
| 38 | Ananya Vijay | Parakimeethal | Cross Country | Clear | |
| 39 | Jimin | Park | Cross Country | Clear | Yes! |
| 40 | Oliver | Perrault | Cross Country | Clear | Yes! |
| 41 | Soma | Pujara | Cross Country | Clear | Yes! |
| 42 | Alexandra | Qiu | Cross Country | Pending | |
| 43 | Medha | Rustagi | Cross Country | Clear | Yes! |
| 44 | Rishi | Salvi | Cross Country | *Practice* | |
| 45 | Vishakha | Shastri | Cross Country | Clear | |
| 46 | Ritik | Shenoy | Cross Country | Clear | Yes! |
| 47 | Ashwanth | Sundaramoorthi | Cross Country | Clear | Yes! |
| 48 | Eli | Wang | Cross Country | Clear | Yes! |
| 49 | Yibo | Wang | Cross Country | Clear | Yes! |
| 50 | Ray | Wang | Cross Country | Clear | |
| 51 | Brandon | Wang | Cross Country | Clear | |
| 52 | Aiden | White | Cross Country | Clear | Yes! |
| 53 | Riu | Yamada | Cross Country | Clear | Yes! |
| 54 | Isaac | Yan | Cross Country | Clear | |
| 55 | Ethan | Yang | Cross Country | Clear | |
| 56 | Darin | Young | Cross Country | INC | |
| 57 | Melinda | Zhao | Cross Country | Clear | |
| 58 | Youheng | Zhong | Cross Country | Clear | Yes! |
| 59 | Zhengyin | Zhu | Cross Country | Clear | Yes! |