The third week of MVXC practice traditionally brings our athletes the Watermelon Run. We can’t get together and run that event during the pandemic, but MVXC did try to honor that traditional milestone. Using a 3km road course that avoided…
The 2020 Pandemic Time Trial/Watermelon Sorta is on Saturday, September 5. There will be a make up for people that can’t make that date on September 12. And remember you can invite people that have not been attending the zoom…
Monta Vista Cross Country is unstoppable! We are now into our second week of virtual training sessions. The team gets together at 3:35, five minutes after our last zoom class of the day, for a brief meeting–then we go…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…