Hopefully all that crazy hot stuff is over! Great job everyone making it through the first full week of school and the hottest week we've had all summer. Make sure you are good and hydrated for this coming week. It would also be a great time to check your sleep (are you working toward that team goal of everyone getting 8+ hours?) and to give a check how you are doing on your eating - especially your intake of recovery and energy based vitamins and minerals like iron, calcium, potassium, and your electrolytes, carbohydrates and proteins. If you need a little info on foods loaded with this simple slide show has great ideas.
Also, a huge thanks to everyone staying masked up. I've said before (and will say again) that whatever your personal beliefs are is okay... but for us to have a school year and a season, masks are a must! So keep healthy: mask up, wash/sanitize hands, and stay away from social events where you run the risk of picking up something - and not just Covid, plenty of other sickeness can put you and your teammates out, too.
Purpose of the Week's Workouts: This week's workouts - this is our final week of the SWEP phase and we will use this week and the next week to transition into our Pre-Competition Phase - which focuses or leg strentgh through Hill Circuits and race pace workouts. You may be thinking, "Hey, we've already been racing. So why are we moving into Pre-Comp Phase?" Dang... that's a great question. The answer goes along with pretty much everything we preach around here - everything we are doing is based on a continum of learning and improvement. We're lucky that our sport doesn't have season records or stuff like that. So these early meets are just part of our continued growth. We just continue to work to improve and build to our most important events in October.
Minutes:
Keep updating your minutes (start if you haven't been). Please use this form and update your minutes and set a goal for yourself for this coming week (the more specific the goal the better). This is how we will earn our minutes awards for the season.
Performance - Adri Baker, So. Adri had a great race at the Cedar All-Comers. She dominated the Fresh/Soph girls race and won by over a minute and a half. She's got an amazingly positive attitude and really builds up everyone on the team.
Tough at Practice - Brinley Peterson, Jr. Brinley has been taking a big leap in her running through this summer. Everyday she takes every practice's purpose to heart and is determined to get the most out of it. Her example of hard work and drive is one we can all grow from.
PVXC Thought of the Week:
"If you want to be really good at something, you have to be willing to fail. Being willing to fail is easier when you have a strong sense of self. Having a strong sense of self requires not identifying with the outcomes of your efforts."
As coaches, we had the opportunity to talk to a few of you about this idea in the last couple weeks. A very difficult thing about hard things (like running) is that you don't always improve the way you want when you want. To really succeed, we all need to experience a true shift of thinking to a growth mindset. WE HAVE TO BE WILLING TO FAIL. It is so hard to think that it is okay to fail - especially because often so much of our self-worth is tied up into success and being good. However, all of us need to realize that this success/failure isn't who we really are. We are so much more... we are hard workers, persistent in our efforts; we are good friends, family members and teammates; we are students; we are ... (whatever else you want to be). Please remember, no one will think any less of you if you "fail" sometimes. Especially those who really care about you: your family, friends and teammates. We are all glad you care a lot about running and want to do really well, but this is just one aspect of who you are and being fast or not-so-fast in a race doesn't make you any less amazing!
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