A great camp week over... thanks to everyone who helped pull it off: parents who drove and those who joined us for a night or two, camp staff who cooked and transported stuff, all the athletes who kept great attitudes and worked hard, the camp committee, and the captains who put so much work into planning all the activities. Even though we weren't sure we would be able to have camp this year, it turned out to be one of our best yet. Hopefully each of us can take some time, while everything is fresh in our brain, and spend some time thinking about what we learned and deciding how to use it in our own lives and in our own running.
Purpose of the Week's Workouts: This week's workouts - we continue the SWEP phase of our workouts. This will include more long CV paced intervals and continued focus on distance and hills. We will use this week and next to help us transition to a 7 day schedule for our runs from the 9 day schedule we have used throughout the summer. We will also continue to acclimate to the heat as we switch up weights to the afternoon and try and get together for those afternoon runs on Tuesday and Thursday.
This Week's Schedule:
We will meet this week Monday at the Bloomington Hills North Park (location below) at 7:00a. After our warm up, we will have our annual end of summer time trial - a 2 mile race on the BHNP course.
https://www.sgcity.org/bloomingtonhillsnorthpark/
On Tuesday through Thursday we will meet at PVHS at 7:00a. And on Friday, we will have a group long run at a location TBA.
Afternoon run schedule: we will meet as a team on Tuesday and Thursday at 3:00p at PVHS for our short regeneration run and weights. Other afternoon runs on your schedule (see workout link above) on your own.
Weekly Challenge:
Take a few minutes and think about what strengths your developed during the summer. Write these down and post them where you can reflect back on your growth.
Minutes:
Not many of you have been turning in your weekly minutes... 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) - and catch up any weeks you might have missed. This is how we will earn our minutes awards for the season.
Book Club:
This Tuesday will be our final book club (we will talk about it on Tuesday afternoon), so make sure you are finishing up the book (and implementing ideas that you found useful).
Other Stuff:
If you haven't done these things yet, please do:
PVXC Thought of the Week:
"When you peel away the layers of ego and subdue your expectations regarding how the world should be, then what's left? Only life itself."
-Shawn Green
What is all this about? This running? School? Reading a book by a baseball player none of you had ever heard of before? Anything? The answer... ONLY LIFE ITSELF. It's all about helping each of us grow to live the very best life we can. If we can't do that, and we've given up trying, only then have we failed. But if we keep striving to do our best ever day... then we are a success!
Weekly Challenge:
Take a few minutes and think about what strengths your developed during the summer. Write these down and post them where you can reflect back on your growth.
Minutes:
Not many of you have been turning in your weekly minutes... 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) - and catch up any weeks you might have missed. This is how we will earn our minutes awards for the season.
Book Club:
This Tuesday will be our final book club (we will talk about it on Tuesday afternoon), so make sure you are finishing up the book (and implementing ideas that you found useful).
Other Stuff:
If you haven't done these things yet, please do:
- if you haven't looked at the Parent/Athlete Meeting slides, please do - this is in place of our Parent Meeting we usually have.
- take a look at the 2020 schedule and start making some plans - some of the meet changes have been posted.
Upcoming Events:
Race - PVXC Time Trial: August 3rd at Bloomington Hills North Park - practice will start at 7:00a and the race (2 mile) will start at 7:45. Those who come watch are asked to please wear a mask anywhere around the team! This looks like it will be a guideline for all our meets - Fans please wear a mask and stay socially distanced.
Team Night at St. George Running Center: Wednesday, Aug. 5th at 7:15p. Pizza, Spikes and trainers on sale!
Race - Desert Relays: Has been moved to Monday, Aug. 10 at 6:00p.
Race - Cedar All-Comers: Our first full XC meet is schedule for the first day of school, August 13th. MS will race at 6:30p, followed by girls at 7:00p and boys after (app. 7:30p).
Car Wash Fundraiser: He been scheduled for August 15th at the Red Dirt Car and Dog Wash. We will get tickets to sell next week. This will be a great opportunity for you to earn money to help pay for any XC stuff you may need.
Race - Desert Relays: Has been moved to Monday, Aug. 10 at 6:00p.
Race - Cedar All-Comers: Our first full XC meet is schedule for the first day of school, August 13th. MS will race at 6:30p, followed by girls at 7:00p and boys after (app. 7:30p).
Car Wash Fundraiser: He been scheduled for August 15th at the Red Dirt Car and Dog Wash. We will get tickets to sell next week. This will be a great opportunity for you to earn money to help pay for any XC stuff you may need.
Race - Canyon View All-Comers: August 22nd. Times haven't been posted, but it will be in the morning at CVHS.
Race - Timpanogos Invite: Sept. 5th. 8:00a Lake Side Park, Orem. This meet will take place of our overnight team trip (Murray, that was cancelled). Hopefully we get approval to take a full bus.
Youth Summer Running Club Challenge #10:
It's great that a few of you have taken on the challenge of completing a summer of challenges. We sure did miss all of you each Tuesday. Hopefully, we can be back next year. Usually we have two races, one in the middle of the summer and one at the end. So, your Challenge #10 is to race the course you did earlier in the summer and see if you've had some improvement in your time. Those of you who have completed 8 of the 10 challenges need to email Coach Holt at david.holt@washk12.org and let him know so that we can get your awards to you!
Those 6th-8th graders who would like to participate in our Youngsters club, we are very hopeful that we will be able to have it this year. Coach Martha Baker will be running the club, and we are looking for other parents who would like to help. 6th-8th graders who would like to participate and any parent interested in helping, please contact Coach Holt (email above).
Summer Running Club T-Shirts - Unfortunately, we didn't get enough orders to be able to order a shirt this year. So those that ordered one will get a reimbursement soon. However, we have some shirts left from the last few years, so you you would like a shirt and have been completing some of the challenges and running a little this summer, let us know and we'll see if there are any shirts you don't have and we'll get you one of those for free.
Summer Running Club T-Shirts - Unfortunately, we didn't get enough orders to be able to order a shirt this year. So those that ordered one will get a reimbursement soon. However, we have some shirts left from the last few years, so you you would like a shirt and have been completing some of the challenges and running a little this summer, let us know and we'll see if there are any shirts you don't have and we'll get you one of those for free.
PVXC Thought of the Week:
"When you peel away the layers of ego and subdue your expectations regarding how the world should be, then what's left? Only life itself."
-Shawn Green
What is all this about? This running? School? Reading a book by a baseball player none of you had ever heard of before? Anything? The answer... ONLY LIFE ITSELF. It's all about helping each of us grow to live the very best life we can. If we can't do that, and we've given up trying, only then have we failed. But if we keep striving to do our best ever day... then we are a success!
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