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“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…

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…

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…

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…

(It will help your mood to play this music while you are reading this post 🙂 ) Running on the Oregon Coast with my cross…

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…

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…

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…

We record many ‘firsts’ during the initial weeks of an MVXC season, and the first time up Fire Trail is one of the big ones.…

“An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply has not been there.  Goals can be elusive which makes the…

Here is a really nice article on Desiree Linden’s Olympic marathon.  Desi is an intense, intelligent competitor and a great athlete, she ran such a…