First Day of Virtual Practice!
Don’t forget that our first day of virtual practice is Thursday August 20 at 3:35pm. The Zoom link is below. Yes the air quality is bad…so your coaches have a plan. Tune in and find out! If you download…
Coach Flatow
MVXC Has A Date to Restart Group Training! Virtual Training Starts Now.
Well team, at long last, we have a date for when we may restart group training…and that date is September 14! Monday, September 14 seems like a million years from now but this time will go by fast. Let’s all…
Summer Running Week of August 10-16
Hello Team! August 9 message: I keep on telling you that the school leadership is about to make a decision about us continuing to train together, and I still am waiting. Honestly, at this point I can’t tell you why…
Cohorts Two and Three are Rolling
Monta Vista cross country completed it’s fourth week of summer training together, with two new cohorts. After Cohort One wrapped up on July 11, MVXC started work with two new Cohorts on July 14 with a reshuffle and some new…
Thank You Kate!
A huge shout out to Kate Niehaus, a great friend of Monta Vista Cross Country. Kate called in and talked to the team at our weekly meeting on July 17. Kate has an intimidating running resume: 14 x South Carolina…
Conner’s Marathon, Cohort One, and an opportunity to do something nice
This and that… Conner’s Marathon Last Sunday July 5, recent grad and future UCSB student Conner Hsu got up early and went for a run…a 26.2 mile run. Starting in Los Gatos and running all the way to Baylands in…
Applications for Summer Session 2 Are Open!
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been following all the county health directives. For most of March, April and May in 2020, this meant that MVXC was not able to meet in person. But in June, that changed! With the…
Summer Running in time of COVID-19
MVXC finished a first week of group running since COVID-19. MVXC had the first practice of any Monta Vista athletic team since early March…and so far we are meeting the challenge. We followed a lot of careful rules that we never…
MVXC: First Practice!
Monta Vista cross country had the honor, and responsibility, of holding the first practice of any Monta Vista team in more than three months! There were lots of preparation and planning needed, but Tuesday June 23 saw the cross country team…
Get Ready For MVXC’s Guest Speaker for June 12
Watch this and this and this and this and get ready to welcome Noah Droddy tomorrow! We are so fortunate that he will visit MVXC. What a great dude. This is going to be a fun call!
Calling All Freshmen! MVXC Wants The Class of 2024
There will be an informational Zoom call on Friday, June 12, hosted by MVXC athletes, for all incoming freshmen! We want to answer your questions about the Monta Vista cross country team. Read on… Hello Future MVXC Runners, We are…
Some Thoughts About Our June 5 Visitor, Michael Wardian
I hope that everyone enjoyed listening to Michael Wardian last Friday! There were a couple of stories that resonated strongly with me. Michael reflected very openly about some of his failures. For example, the first time that Michael tried to join…