Coach Flatow

Coach Flatow

Week Seven Recap: Baylands, Grit and more!

Monta Vista’s season reached the halfway point between the first practice of the season and toeing the line at the Central Coast Section Championships…let’s review week seven. SCVAL Season Opener at Baylands – September 20, 2022 Several years ago at…

Beautiful Morning Running at De La Salle Invitational!

Please get me your releases for our next invitational at Pacific Grove! MVXC22 finally got to enjoy some near-perfect running weather on Saturday, September 17 at the De La Salle invitational!  Perfect running weather is slightly uncomfortably cool spectating weather, so…

No One Wants To Watch The Movie About Becoming

This morning I was looking through Angela Duckworth’s book Grit trying to find a quote.  I couldn’t find the exact quote but it goes something like this:  No one wants to watch the movie about your journey of becoming…they just…

Pacific Grove Release

Athletes– At Pacific Grove next month, this is a brand new course, and they are still figuring things out.  So one of the things they are asking for is a release.  The only place that is asking for that!  Oh…

MVXC 2022 Parent Meeting!

There will be a Zoom meeting for MVXC 2022 parents, to get to know the coaches and hear plans for the season, as well as answer any questions.  The meeting will be on Wednesday, August 31, at 7pm.  The link…

I ♥ Matador Miles

Matador Miles are an iconic MVXC workout–repeat miles, on dirt, in Stevens Canyon, not flat, one minute recoveries between miles.  Matador Miles are one of my favorite cross country workouts: Lactic threshold pace is so good for us… Breaking up…

Watermelon Run 2022–PHOTOS POSTED!!!

As promised, Mr. Ma has posted his truly professional photos of the 2022 Watermelon Run!  Check out the MVXC/MVTF Photos Website.  All photos on this site are free to download–use them for your FB page, to send to your grandmother,…

MVXC Completes A Second Week Of Practice

Creating fitness is like building a brick wall.  Each brick might not seem like much by itself, but a few hundred–or a few thousand–and you have a wall.  A few million and you have the Great Wall, something that would…