3200 Madness!

Monta Vista High School made history on Friday, September 6th, hosting its first-ever 3200 Madness! run. This event brought together the cross-country teams from Lynbrook…

Monta Vista High School made history on Friday, September 6th, hosting its first-ever 3200 Madness! run. This event brought together the cross-country teams from Lynbrook…

Copies of the slides presented at Monta Vista Character Lab will be posted here as downloadable attachments.

“Every run, every workout, every buildup is a deposit; eventually you get to take a withdrawal, and the race day magic delivers.” ~Josh Cox Over…

Monta Vista Cross Country opened its season with the traditional Watermelon Run on August 22, 2024, a 2.6-mile course through Stevens Canyon Park. This is…

Great first week, athletes! I absolutely loved seeing you again, and also meeting so many new faces. In my application to the University of Pennsylvania…

“Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal, while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the…

I rewatched the Olympic men’s 1500m final. If you have not seen it, watch it. If you have seen it, rewatch it! There were so…

It’s almost time for MVXC24! To get you in the mood, please watch this video about the Dark Peak Fell Runners and the Edale Skyline…

I was cleaning out a drawer and found this hilarious old book, “How They Train.” What the author did was talk to hundreds of runners,…
A year ago, at one of the farmers’ markets I regularly use in Oregon, one of the farmers had a weird, cone-shaped cabbage. DJ, the…
One of the papers we read last year in my University of Pennsylvania program studied how being part of a strong friend group makes people…

Wait, what? Yes, I want you to fail. Or more accurately, I want you to try something where you will probably fail. In Angela Duckworth’s…