Week 3 Minutes / Week 4

We are into the heart (and heat!) of summer and the runs are really starting to move for PVXC!

Please enter your Week 3 (June 20-25) minutes here.

If you haven't caught up Weeks 1 and/or 2 yet, please do (they will be closed out soon).

Also please make sure your Week Reports or blogs are up-to-date.  If you have yet to set up your Week Report, click the link to the right and request access.  Then get that going today.

A few other important announcements:
- registermyathlete.com: get this taken care of ASAP.  It must be done!
- physical:  get your physical taken care of and turned into the office at PVHS by the first week of July (you MUST have this done and on record at the high school to go to camp, no exceptions).  Check last week's post for further info about dates.
- Tues and Thurs we have weights at 3:00p at PVHS followed by a short run for many of you.
- Friday we are meeting at Heritage Park in Coral Canyon.
- Next week (July 4 - 9) is our moratorium.  During this week will NOT have Coach-led practice.  The workouts will be posted on the blog (over on the right hand column) and teammates may have informal practices, but we will not have practice at Wash. Elem. at 7:00a led by the Coaches.
- High Altitude Camp:  it is starting to get close!  By the end of this week, we will be taking our preliminary count of who is going to camp.  We will be collecting the full payment of $85 the week we return from summer moratorium (we will make it due Tuesday, July 12th).  To attend camp, an athlete MUST have/be:
     *registermyathlete.com complete
     *a physical on file at PVHS
     *attending summer practice regularly
     *in shape to handle the rigors of camp
Camp is Monday, August 1st - Thursday, August 4th at Deer Haven Campground on Cedar Mtn. - we are looking for parents who would like to help drive up/back (or even stay some of the time with us!).

As we head into Week 4 a few reminders from our Opening Meetings (notes for Day 2 will be updated as soon as I can get them typed up)...
- Have you written out your WHY I RUN?  Have you shared it with family and friends?
- One of the greatest things about running is how closely it resembles our greater lives and how much we can learn from the two together.  In running, like in life, we have a choice of how much we want to put into something.  In the Opening Meeting, we talked about the Participant--->>>>Contributor Model.  We all come into this thing as Participants - we want to be part of something, have some fun, hang out with friends, etc.; and then at some time a few of us decide we want more out of this.  And instead of being in it for ourselves and our own motives, we want to help all those around us and contribute to the greater good of the team, those around us, and the program.  It takes many steps and experiences to move up from being a Participant to a Contributor, and you can only do this if YOU DECIDE DEEP INSIDE YOURSELF that it is what you really want to do.  But I promise you that if/when you do make this decision, your experiences in running and in life will become so much greater.

Week 2 Minutes / Week 3

Please report your minutes for Week 2 (6/13-6/18) here.

Announcements for Week 3:

• registermyathlete.com - get it done
• Physical - get it done and turned in to the office
• Practice Monday at 6:30 (Tues-Fri at 7:00)
• Practice Mon-Thur at Wash. Elem. - Fri at Confluence Park (by Dixie Center)
• weights Tues and Thurs at 3:00p at PVHS
• Keep blogging/reporting your runs on your Week Report or at fastrunningblog.com

We had a very solid week for Week 2.  Even with a lot of summer activities going on, we have kept our #'s up and are seeing some great running going on.  We are getting more minutes than we ever have in the summer... It is tough on the body and the mind, so make sure that you are giving yourself a chance to be successful.  That means healthy recovery - eating healthy foods, refueling quickly after workouts, rolling and stretching (even icing), doing some yoga, getting enough sleep, and drinking a lot of water. 

As we move into Week 3, we will see a few more minutes added to some of our runs as well as a little bit of hill work.  Let's continue to get out to practice - or if you are out of town, do your very best to get the workout in (if it works better to move the scheduled runs around a little, do it).  It would be great to see a few more new faces - especially Freshman; we challenge you to call up your friends and others you think would enjoy this and get them out to run with us. 

And finally, as we have started to bring in a little cross-training with weights, it would be very beneficial to everyone to do a little extra each afternoon - vigorous swimming or biking, pool running, Beast and Feast (HIIT workouts), yoga, or some other form of cross-training. 

Thanks for keeping it fun!

-the coaches

Week 2 Stuff

We had a great first week of practice - a lot of familiar faces, and a lot of new faces!

As we move into the middle of the second week, a couple announcements:

• Week 1 minutes need to be reported
• Get your registration done at registermyathlete.com
• Get physicals done and turned into the office - ASAP (more info about physicals and registration can be found in the "Opening Meetings Notes"
• We had a great introduction of our Year Theme - Greatness Never Came From Comfort Zones - by the captains at the Opening Meetings.  Check out the notes here.  And you can see the video they presented here.
• Thursday will be our long run for the week - so we will meet at the elem. at 6:30a
• Also on Thursday, we will lift at 3:00 and finish our Opening Meetings at the high school - be there.

Remind App

Trying out a new way to communicate with athletes and parents...
Check out the remind app
The passcode for the team is @a24b37

Week 1 minutes

Minute Reporting for Each Week

We're going to try a new system for reporting/keeping track of our minutes... It will be a work in progress, so be patient!  At the end of each week, there will be a link here for a form to fill out.  Please fill out the form by the end of Monday on the following week.

Report Minutes for Week 1 here.

Practice Starts! and Week Reports

Summer Practice starts Monday, June 6th

@ Washington Elementary

7:00a

Week Reports - All members of PVXC will be asked to track their workouts.  Some of you track on websites (such as fastrunningblog.com) others used our Week Reports (linked on the right column).  Either way, you need to make sure that you are tracking your workouts throughout the summer and season - this is a requirement to race!.  You will need to get permission to use the Week Report this year, so click on it and get it taken care of.

Minute Reporting - We are asking that no matter what resource you are using to track your running, you email your weekly total minutes to the coaches each week with an email to pineviewxc@gmail.com (please do this each week on Sat, Sun, or Mon).  UPDATE... See info for Reporting Minutes up above - those of you who emailed your minutes to Coach for Week 1, please go back and do this.  Those who didn't email your minutes, add up your minutes and post them to the form above.