Greetings from Philadelphia! I’ve been buried the last few days as I get started with the UPenn Masters of Positive Psychology program. Immersion week is really something! Yet, I can’t wait to see all of you athletes…it feels like…
As you all know, I love racing! Loved racing myself, love watching, love coaching. And with a good meet, a good team and a good course…well, racing is special. MVXC traveled to Vacaville for our season opener at the Lagoon…
On Thursday, August 24, the Monta Vista cross country team opened the 2023 season with the Watermelon Run! The Watermelon run is a team tradition going back more than two decades. The Watermelon Run follows a challenging course. This is a…
Lagoon Valley is just a few days away! LV is going to be our first invitational of the season, just like last year. It’s a really good race! LV has some challenging hills Big Mama and Little Sister. Every good cross country course…
MVXC23 has one week of practice in our running logs! We had a couple of dozen athletes on the trails every morning this week. Our first week included some hills, some threshold, some solid miles and a trip to Santa…
MVXC had a great first day of practice on Monday, August 7! More than 20 athletes and three coaches (Coach Flatow, Coach Sam, and Coach Ashley) were all there at 7am for a get-to-know you run out the RR tracks.…
Clearance Status UPDATED 7am Sunday August 6 If you think you should be cleared but your name is not on the list below, please contact Mr Bonacorsi at nick_bonacorsi@fuhsd.org to find out what the issue is (Coach Flatow cannot clear you,…
Congratulations and thank you to Sandhya Fasnacht and Miranda Hsu for being the first athletes to complete their athletic clearance! All the procedures for completing athletic clearance are posted! If you have problems, send an email to Mr. Bonacorsi nick_bonacorsi@fuhsd.org.…
First Official MVXC23 Practice is on August 7! Distance is a function of speed and time…multiply average speed times the time we are moving and the result is the distance we have travelled. Different people have different cars that can move…
Fighter pilots have to be brave, rugged individuals who do not scare easily. Nevertheless, things are going to happen in a fighter plane that will frighten the pants off of the toughest person. To prepare for that, the schools that…
MVXC have all of July to run wild, so let’s make the most of this last month before school starts and formal practice begins! As a teenager, we don’t have control over everything in our lives. It’s pretty hard…
Are you running with joy??? In four weeks–4, cuatro, quatre, vier, चार, 四,أربعة–we get together for our first practice as a team to begin the new season! Yikes, time goes fast for this coach…is your summer going by as fast as mine?…