Crystal Springs Is The Best
MVXC traveled to Crystal Springs for the first time in 2022 on Tuesday, October 4. Crystal may be the best cross country course in California, maybe the country. It’s hard to say exactly where Crystal ranks but for sure,…
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Week 8 Work Preps MVXC for Crystal and Palo Corona! Crystal and Pac Grove Meet Sheets, Too.
Week Eight of the Monta Vista cross country season–the last week of September–was a challenging, hard week for those that attacked it with vigor. We were looking for three kinds of quality–CV pace, threshold pace, and long steady hills with…
For You: Crystal Preview Meet Sheet, Team Photographs and SCVAL Championship T-Shirts!
Three quick hits for every MVXC athlete: The Crystal Preview meet sheet is now posted! Team photographs are available for download! Remember, you don’t have to buy these images. Unlike most teams, coach has a contract with the photographer Jeremy Hohengarten…
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…
De La Salle, Baylands #1 Meet Sheets are Posted!
After a week of 100+, 80 degrees sure feels pretty good, doesn’t it? Monday we took our team photo–I’ll send you the link as soon as photographer Jeremy Hohengarten has finished processing the photos and uploads the pictures. I am sure…
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…
Can’t Beat the Heat, but we can work around
This week is forecasted to be miserably, historically hot. While we look at the track and watch the heat waves emanate upwards and idly wonder if the track will actually combust, MVXC are also trying to figure out how to make the…
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…
First Invitational of the Year! Lagoon Valley Classic Report
Monta Vista Cross Country made the journey north to Vacaville on September 3, and got the 2022 XC season rolling on the dusty trails of the Lagoon Valley Classic! Lagoon Valley is hosted by Vacaville High School. The meet director uses…
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…