Nutrition Follow Up
Team, I’ve been thinking a lot about nutrition in the week since our nutrition talk…here is a post I wrote that you may find interesting (it will stay up on coach’s content in the future). You might find this interesting!…
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Pass the Raisins!
Good nutrition is important for your life—not just for your athletics. Last week, Monta Vista XC talked about nutrition before our Wednesday practice. I had several great conversations with athletes afterwards and throughout the week regarding specific nutritional concerns. …
Nutrition
Nutrition is truly the new frontier in the quest to increase athletic performance. After you have spent hours and hours running, training, stretching, lifting…doesn’t it make sense to eat right? And not just for athletic performance–for your life. Eating right…
Earlybird 2012
Frosh boys’ team running striders before their first race. Racing is the best. Even on a hot, dusty day in Salinas, racing is the best. Every day is a great day to race! And the first race of the season is…
Welcome Coach Irina!
The newest member of the MVXC coaching staff is Irina Stiasny…Coach Irina is a physical therapist working out of Breakthrough Physical Therapy in Sunnyvale. With an undergraduate degree from USF and a doctorate in physical therapy from USC, Coach Irina…
Drivers Needed!
Hello Parents, Welcome to the brave new world of MVXC 2012…we have a record number of kids sign up, and that also means that we are going to have a new challenge of getting our team to our competitions, especially…
Watermelon Run 2012
Confidence is a choice—we can choose, for ourselves, how confident we want to be going into a race (or anything). Competence helps build confidence. Based on the display of running we saw on Thursday, Monta Vista XC looks competent…
Bitter + Sweet: Coffee + Fundraiser
This Saturday, September 1 is the 2nd Annual Monta Vista parent’s coffee social at Bitter + Sweet, a great place for coffee right here in Cupertino! This is the easiest fund raising event ever. Simply drop by the Bitter +…
Over Achievers On The New MV Track
The MVXC Saturday Morning Over Achievers Club A group of MVXC over-acheivers ran the first interval workout on our new track this Saturday…totally fun, as the OA Club record a fine, hard workout to get the season rolling. This group…
First Time Up Fire Trail!
MVXC training ‘for real’ seems to start with the first trip up Fire Trail, and on August 23 the team made it’s first run up to the top as a group! More than 70 MVXC athletes made that run–for many…
Dammit Run!
If high school cross country success is earned in July and August, then the Monta Vista Cross Country team looks pretty good for 2012! Sixteen Monta Vista athletes participated in the 39th Annual Dammit Run on Saturday, August 11th…a 5…
Mercury-News Trails Article
Hey everyone, I’d been meaning to post this…but hopefully you have all seen this article when it was published a week ago. Yes, the MV runners were recognized for our volunteer work in June in the Fremont Older Open Space…