Coach Flatow

Coach Flatow

Avocado Toast

This is a post about avocado toast. Last Friday, MVTF/MVXC friend Josh Cox shared his go-to avocado toast recipe on our weekly zoom meeting.  Several Monta Vista athletes then made and shared their own creations. Triya’s creation included everything bagel…

Trainer Open Call TODAY (Monday)

This is a reminder that we are trying our first XC trainer call with Javier today from 2-3pm…anyone can check in with us and ask about injuries, exercises to address weak points…anything that you would normally go see Javier about…

Josh Cox Visit & An Avocado Toast Challenge

On May 1, Monta Vista track and cross country welcomed Josh Cox to our weekly Zoom meeting.  Josh talked about the challenges of training at an elite level, how to keep motivated while training along, process vs. outcome, and…his experiences…

And in an alternate timeline…League Finals!

In this week’s journey into a track and field multiverse, Monta Vista had planned travel to league finals at Cupertino.  In our current reality, we have a slightly different story to tell… +++++ LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIPS! If you’re like me, you have been spending…

Odds and Ends for week of April 20

Bouncing to and fro with a few short announcements today…things I would cover quickly if we were only in person instead of observing day  + 1 of our shelter-in-place…I miss you guys! Des! Everyone who joined the weekly Distance and…

Weekly Zoom Call August 7

For those keeping track, here are the MVXC call in guests so far… Des Linden, Boston Marathon champion Josh Cox, 4X US Olympic Marathon trials competitor Angela Duckworth, University of Pennsylvania professor Stephanie Trafton-Brown, 2008 Olympic champion, discus  Robert Bartlett,…

Des Linden

I’m lucky to have Des Linden as a friend.  Des is one of the great American distance runners–the first American woman to win the Boston Marathon in the last 33 years, two time Olympian, and a pretty great high school…

Are You Feeling Stressed?

(Much of this post is based on an article written by Professor Ethan Kross, University of Michigan.  Dr. Kross is a friend of Dr. Angela Duckworth and wrote about temporal distancing for the Character Lab.) Are you feeling stressed about shelter-in-place,…