Short attention span writing/reading for MVXC in the week of September 14… Snack Shack: Thank you to all the parents and athletes who volunteered to run the snack shack during the football gave against Jefferson High School! Your efforts were appreciated…
This team is awesome! MVXC15 ran it’s traditional opening race at the Earlybird Invitational in Salinas on Saturday, September 12. We saw 79 purple-clad runners show their stuff on the trails and the hill on the three-mile Toro Park course—and…
Whitman College Cross Country Team 2015 It’s barely September, and already Monta Vista cross-country alumni are starting to make a mark on college teams from coast-to-coast! At UC Irvine, Pearl Law (MVXC12, and older sister of current MVXC team member Ruby Law),…
Whitman College Cross Country Team 2015 It’s barely September, and already Monta Vista cross-country alumni are starting to make a mark on college teams from coast-to-coast! At UC Irvine, Pearl Law (MVXC12, and older sister of current MVXC team member…
Since time immemorial–or at least the last ten years–the 2.6 mile Watermelon Run has kicked off the Monta Vista Cross-Country season. So on Thursday, September 3, 90 nervous harriers toed the line in the dust of Stevens Canyon and prepared…
If you have seen the gray ‘California’ MVXC shirts, and were wishing you had one of your own, you have one more chance this week… These shirts are a fund raiser for our travel team. To support our team’s great…
Up Regnart–that is just getting started! MVXC15 made the first–but definitely not last!–climb up Fire Trail on Monday! For new and for returning runners, the first time we grind up Regnart and then Fire Trial is a bit of a tester,…
94 athletes drilling at the start of practice. MVXC15 has a full week in our running logs! As of the end of the week, we have 94 athletes signed up on the roster*. The team has taken it’s first spin out…
It’s not a surprise–the hotter the weather, the more an athlete will sweat. What we don’t always appreciate is how much the original state of hydration will determine how much heat we can tolerate. Here is the bottom line—if you are well…
It’s not a surprise–the hotter the weather, the more an athlete will sweat. What we don’t always appreciate is how much the original state of hydration will determine how much heat we can tolerate. Here is the bottom line—if you…
Often we get the question from athletes, ‘what can I do to improve my running form?’ In most cases, we don’t want to tinker too much with your natural running form. Go watch the runners at an elite race such…
Often we get the question from athletes, ‘what can I do to improve my running form?’ In most cases, we don’t want to tinker too much with your natural running form. Go watch the runners at an elite race such…