The MVXC season banquet was another notable success, thanks to the hard work of many parents who arranged food and decorations! It’s always sad to mark the end of a season–however it is also joyful to reflect on such a…
It is OK to be disappointed when things don’t end up the way we planned. Feelings of frustration are reasonable feelings when something that is important to us does not go well. And unfortunately, MVXC was a frustrated group after…
One week prior to the Central Coast Section Championship meet, MVXC looked sharp in a pair of Saturday workouts, morning and afternoon. The Monta Vista Varsity Girls looked particularly amoeba-ready with some blazing splits and team running at practice. Both…
The Santa Clara Valley Athletic League Cross Country Championships are the day that athletes circle on their calendar each season. For most of MVXC, this is the last meet of the season and an opportunity to show the results of a full season…
Uniform return day is sad–it marks the end of another cross-country season. Sigh. Please plan to bring your uniform back to the team on Thursday, November 9 after school. You have one week to get your complete uniform laundered and…
I liked these photographs of the team running on a foggy Saturday morning by the water and wanted to share them…plus we had a really rocking workout with good results! I’ll share this with the team at pre-race and also…
MVXC prepped for Leagues with strong performances top to bottom at the FUHSD Championships on Thursday, October 26. The Monta Vista girls’ cross-country team headlined as they took care of business, defending their title and winning the FUHSD Championship for…
The night of Friday October 20, 30 MVXC athletes and their coaches gathered in the Monta Vista gym to prepare the first ever Dawn Patrol…we had an evening of both quiet and less than quiet games (the uncommon four basket/four team…
After a week of practice being disrupted by air quality, it felt good to be racing again at Baylands/SCVAL3 on Tuesday, October 17. Baylands is not always a focus meet for MVXC, as often we are traveling to Mt. SAC.…
Dawn, LGHS Parking Lot–October 17 at 7:13am This morning at the end of a nine-and-a-half-mile run with four running partners, this was my view from the Los Gatos high school parking lot–and the photo does not do justice to…
“Running isn’t a sport for pretty boys. It’s about the sweat in your hair and the blisters on your feet. It’s the frozen spit on your chin and the nausea in your gut. It’s about throbbing calves and cramps at…
Lots of smiles of satisfaction once again at the Artichoke Invitational at Half Moon Bay on October 7, 2017! We should start with our Frosh-Soph boys, who had been knocking on the door of a big success for a while.…