Monta Vista Cross Country opened its season with the traditional Watermelon Run on August 22, 2024, a 2.6-mile course through Stevens Canyon Park. This is not an easy start to a season—the Watermelon course is true cross country*! The course…
Great first week, athletes! I absolutely loved seeing you again, and also meeting so many new faces. In my application to the University of Pennsylvania Masters of Applied Positive Psychology program, in response to the question, “What do you plan…
Here are some updates to the MVXC 24 schedule: The parent meeting will be on Wednesday, August 28, at 6:15 pm in the Student Union We hope to see you there! The first pasta night for Lagoon Valley will be…
Are you ready for a formal banquet? Well, maybe not THAT formal. We have a banquet date…the 2024 Monta Vista Cross Country Awards Banquet will be on Tuesday, November 19, at 6:00 p.m. And here is the kicker…drum roll please…we…
“Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal, while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.” ~Herodotus, The Histories Those old Greeks knew…
I rewatched the Olympic men’s 1500m final. If you have not seen it, watch it. If you have seen it, rewatch it! There were so many times that Cole or Yared could have given up. The pace was brutal the…
Here are a few key points for the 2024 cross country season! Practice! The first practice will be on Saturday, August 10, at 7:00 a.m. at the Monta Vista track! We will have practice at 7 a.m., to beat the…
It’s almost time for MVXC24! To get you in the mood, please watch this video about the Dark Peak Fell Runners and the Edale Skyline Fell Race. Fell running is an extreme version of cross-country racing, and you will also…
A new post in the coach’s content section.
I was cleaning out a drawer and found this hilarious old book, “How They Train.” What the author did was talk to hundreds of runners, ask them what workouts they ran, and write up the results. This was what coaches…
A year ago, at one of the farmers’ markets I regularly use in Oregon, one of the farmers had a weird, cone-shaped cabbage. DJ, the farmer, told me that it was an old Italian variety he was trying. Although few…
One of the papers we read last year in my University of Pennsylvania program studied how being part of a strong friend group makes people happier. This psychological study, originally a cardiac health project, followed a social network of 12,067…