As we move into the school year, our schedule will change a little (see below). Make sure you are prepared by drinking enough water throughout the day - 100+ oz -, be getting enough sleep - at least 8 hours a night -, and you are ready to keep up on your school work.
Purpose of the week's workouts - This is an important week and a difficult week. Our biggest concern this week is helping everyone adjust to the new schedule: school, sleep, heat, and school work. Because of this, we are toning down the week a little. Our minutes will drop a little and we will see fewer workouts. Because of this, it is very important that everyone get every run in that they are supposed to and to do them well.
Here's our schedule for the week -
Monday: 6:00a at the HS for Levels 2,3,4. We will be doing a long interval workout (check Final Surge or the google doc for specifics - the google doc lists paces for you, so take a minute and find yours). Afternoon practice on Mondays will always be a team meeting in the lecture hall at the HS followed by a short run. Required for everyone.
Tuesday: Morning practice: 6:15a weights and short recovery run. Required for Levels 2,3,4 and optional for Level 1. Afternoon we will meet as a team at PVHS at 3:00p for our run. Required for everyone.
Wednesday: Morning practice: 6:15a. Required for Levels 3,4 and optional for Level 2. Afternoon practice at 3:00p. Required for everyone.
Thursday: Morning practice: 6:15a weights and short recovery run. Required for Levels 2,3,4 and optional for Level 1. There is no afternoon because of the race. RACE - Cedar All-Comers: Meet at the HS at 4:00p for the bus. Race schedule: Youngsters (MS race) 5:30, Girls 6:00, Boys 6:30 (app.) You must ride the bus with the team to race (not Youngsters, of course; you travel with your parents). Athletes may ride home with their parent AFTER ALL OUR TEAM IS DONE RACING and checking out with the Coaches.
Friday: Morning practice: 6:15a. Required for Level 4 and optional for Levels 2,3. Afternoon practice at 3:00p. Required for everyone.
Saturday: We will meet as a team for practice time in the morning. Time and place to be determined. (Var. girls will probably be at Renegade Camp.)
Weekly minutes can be found here. Please get them caught up.
YOUNGSTERS - Practice will begin on Thursday at PVHS at 3:00p (we know some of you may be heading up to the race on Thursday and that is great! But we will still hold practice for those who aren't). Regular practice schedule will be Mondays and Thursdays at 3:00p at the HS.
We are still looking for a few people who would be willing to work with our Youngsters program. We have an experienced coach who will lead the team, so no experience necessary; just a passion for helping kids love being active. Contact Coach Holt by email at pineviewxc@gmail.com
We are still looking for a few people who would be willing to work with our Youngsters program. We have an experienced coach who will lead the team, so no experience necessary; just a passion for helping kids love being active. Contact Coach Holt by email at pineviewxc@gmail.com
A few calendaring items:
Run-a-Thon and Fundraiser - It looks like we will pencil in Aug 31-Sept 1 for the run-a-thon. You may want to start working on your sponsors, though. If you don't have sponsor paperwork, it will be available at Monday's team meeting. About the SPONSORS: please remember that no personal checks are accepted, when you turn money into the finance office at the HS just tell them your name and that the money is your XC sponsor. Then bring the receipt to Coach Holt and tell him where you want to use the money (some people have missed this step in the past and then been fined because no coach knew that they had paid by sponsors).
Girls Varsity Renegade Camp - we are looking at the Friday-Sat of the first week of the school year. Usually around the top 10'ish are invited to attend.
Desert Relays Recap - The Desert Relays is a fun early season duel meet with DH that has a very unique format. Of course we want to run well, but the most important thing about this race is to see where we are doing well so we can keep growing and to identify areas where we might need to change a few things. In the girls' race, we saw some great individual running: Alli set a new meet record for the 1st Leg, and we saw some great pushes from others like Kyanne, Allison, and Madeline who had strong races. We weren't quite able to overcome a very good DHells squad and they beat us 25-30. On the boys' side Nathan took home the bowling pin for his win in Leg 1. It was a very tight race with DH and we were able to nab a 28-28 win with a 6th place tie breaker. Strong runs by teams Silver (Cooper, Tavin, and James) and Grey (Boston, Luke, and Tyler - whose huge kick to the finish barely edged out a DH team) got us the tie. Then the 6th squad (the White team of Caleb, Josh, and Dakota) stepped up big for the tie-breaker win. It was definitely a total team victory.
Desert Relays Recap - The Desert Relays is a fun early season duel meet with DH that has a very unique format. Of course we want to run well, but the most important thing about this race is to see where we are doing well so we can keep growing and to identify areas where we might need to change a few things. In the girls' race, we saw some great individual running: Alli set a new meet record for the 1st Leg, and we saw some great pushes from others like Kyanne, Allison, and Madeline who had strong races. We weren't quite able to overcome a very good DHells squad and they beat us 25-30. On the boys' side Nathan took home the bowling pin for his win in Leg 1. It was a very tight race with DH and we were able to nab a 28-28 win with a 6th place tie breaker. Strong runs by teams Silver (Cooper, Tavin, and James) and Grey (Boston, Luke, and Tyler - whose huge kick to the finish barely edged out a DH team) got us the tie. Then the 6th squad (the White team of Caleb, Josh, and Dakota) stepped up big for the tie-breaker win. It was definitely a total team victory.
Thought of the Week: "Failure isn't fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
First, no one failed at all at the Relays - some ran well, others maybe not very well. But, the quote includes a very important idea, so we still wanted to use it. In our meetings after the race, we talked about how winning or losing the Relays isn't the biggest deal in the world. Really, the only thing that makes it important at all is what you learn from your race last week. If you are able to take the good things you did and build on them, and if you are able to identify an area or two of struggles and implement ways to fix those, then you have truly grasped the purpose of an early season meet like this. Change and Growth... that is what it is all about!
First, no one failed at all at the Relays - some ran well, others maybe not very well. But, the quote includes a very important idea, so we still wanted to use it. In our meetings after the race, we talked about how winning or losing the Relays isn't the biggest deal in the world. Really, the only thing that makes it important at all is what you learn from your race last week. If you are able to take the good things you did and build on them, and if you are able to identify an area or two of struggles and implement ways to fix those, then you have truly grasped the purpose of an early season meet like this. Change and Growth... that is what it is all about!
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