Coach Flatow

Coach Flatow

Lagoon Valley Meet Sheet is Posted!

The first race of the 2025 cross country season is upon us–the Lagoon Valley Classic! Before every race we will try to provide you with a meet sheet including all important information (don’t hold me to this, your head coach…

Matador Ks

The cool, cloudy weather on the morning of Saturday, August 23 was a relief after a week of scorching afternoon workouts. There were 29 cross country runners ready to run—and what a day we had. The workout was Matador Ks;…

Nice Bunch of Dirty 400s

MVXC ran one of Coach Flatow’s favorite workouts* on Wednesday, August 13–Dirty 400s. These are 400 m repeats on a trail in the Stevens Creek park. We love this because these are 400s for cross country runners–we are running on…

Why We Cheer For Each Other

Having our team gather at the end of today’s workout to cheer for every teammate as they finished was incredibly important. If the first person to finish just sits down and starts scrolling on their phone while the rest of…

Beach Run!

Hello Runners! Everytime I look at Discord and see so many smiling running faces, I feel so happy. So I thought, you know what, I want to do something fun for all these runners. So this week I got on…

Discomfort, and Personal Growth

  “Some people interpret the discomfort of growth as a reason to stop.”  –Martin Seligman “Top performers learn to be comfortable with being uncomfortable.” –Angela Duckworth We are now getting close to wrapping up our third week of summer running.…