Monterey Bay Invitational is Cancelled
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…
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Oregon Coast Beach Run: Cue Vangelis
(It will help your mood to play this music while you are reading this post 🙂 ) Running on the Oregon Coast with my cross…
Order Your League Championship T-Shirt Today!
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…
Get Your Artichoke Meet Sheet Here…
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…
What a Weekend at the Three Course Challenge!
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…
MVXC Opens 2016 Campaign at the Ed Sias Invitational
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…
Watermelon Madness
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…
Why Those Saturday Threshold Workouts Matter
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…
First Time Up Fire Trail
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.…
Week One In The Books
“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…
Desi Linden: Olympian (and friend of MVXC)
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…
Here We Go! Day One
“The most important thing I learned from running is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.”  ~George Sheehan…