News & Announcements

Central Park Invitational

Monta Vista opened the 2012 Santa Clara Valley Athletic League cross country season with the first league ‘cluster’ meet, the Central Park Invitational hosted by…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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. …

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…

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…

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…