“Success rests in having the courage and endurance, and above all, the will to become the person you can be.” –George Sheehan There is nothing quite like the Mt. SAC Invitational. Walking into the Mt. San Antonio College stadium at…
The Crystal Preview meet is an important milestone every year for Monta Vista Cross Country. The meet falls about half way through the season, so we are starting to get really fit. The Crystal Springs course is one of the…
Monta Vista Cross Country must love artichokes. How else do you explain the running we did on Saturday, October 1? Oh…maybe our team came out ready to really work hard and compete, and we did–from first to last, MVXC gave…
Monta Vista Cross Country opened up the league season with stirring performances at the Central Park meet on Tuesday, September 27. The boys’ teams all came out strong, with the Varsity boys (second to Palo Alto out of the 14…
There will be no Monterey Bay Invitational this year…here is an email I received last night from the meet director: As many of you already know, Toro Park is serving as the primary base camp for overhead operations for the…
(It will help your mood to play this music while you are reading this post 🙂 ) Running on the Oregon Coast with my cross country team is going to be one of my best memories for a long time…it…
As our league season gets rolling, I would like to remind you to go on-line to order the SCVAL League Championship meet t-shirts for all of our athletes. The cost per shirt is only $15 each, and these are nice technical tees–these…
The Artichoke Invitational meet sheet is now available, so check it out! A few notes: The Varsity teams are not listed, to give us some time to see how everyone feels after Central Park on Tuesday. If you are taking…
The Three Course Challenge might be the nuttiest invitational ever! This is certainly the most challenging high school cross country course that we have ever seen–by a huge margin. (No other course we is close to being as hard. Not…
Monta Vista cross-country opened it’s 2016 campaign with stirring performances at a meet and course previously unknown to us, the Ed Sias Invitational at the Hidden Valley Course, hosted by Campolindo High School. MVXC had a solid opening day that we hope…
The final day of August, 2016, saw Monta Vista run the 11th consecutive recorded Watermelon Run…one of the key dates of our early season training and the first time what MVXC goes out at something that feels like race pace!…
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not…