Week of Oct. 21-26 (Week 21)

Great job everyone. Region was a big success and, once again, the Panthers showed well. As coaches, it's been our pleasure working with you all season. We hope you've had a great time. We encourage all of you to keep running and improving.
Announcements:

• Everyone going to State needs to pay the $25 hotel fee by practice on Monday. (And make sure you are at practice on Monday afternoon.)
• We would like to meet with every member of the team for a brief exit interview - if you haven't looked at the questions, please do. Fill out the Exit Interview worksheet and have it with you when you are scheduled to meet with the coaches.

Purpose of the week's workouts - This week, of course, our big focus is State. Those racing, you'll cut back your minutes and have a little race pace work. Those not racing, you are in maintenance mode for a week then we'll get into our post-season running.

IF YOU HAVE PINE VIEW GEAR, WEAR IT TO PRACTICE!
and remember bright or white in the mornings is required 

Here's our schedule for the week. This week's schedule is a little different, so check it out- all practices at PVHS unless noted, am practices we will meet by the glass room/weight room, afternoon practices we will meet under the marquee at the front of the school). Afternoon practices will generally run from 3:00p - 5:00p.

Monday: am - 6:15a (Those racing at State required, everyone else optional) State Pace workout / afternoon - 3:00 (everyone)

Tuesday: am - 6:30a  recovery run (no weights today)(Those racing at State required, everyone else optional)/ afternoon at hotel (everyone)

Wednesday: am - easy recovery run from the hotel (everyone) / afternoon RACE: State - race schedule: Var Girls 1:00, Var Boys 2:30

Thursday: no am / afternoon 3:00p trail run (everyone who is going to FootLocker or just wants to keep running with us). 

Friday: no am / afternoon 3:00p trail run (everyone who is going to FootLocker or just wants to keep running with us). 

Saturday: on your own or form your own group run.

A few things to be looking forward to - please note these events and plan on attending:

Upcoming Schedule -

*Utah State XC Championships - Wednesday (10/23) - Sugar House Park in SLC. Race times Girls 1:00, Boys 2:30. We invite all our whole team to join us. We will be leaving Tuesday at noon and returning Wednesday night ($25 hotel fee) - itinerary

*Halloween Run - get your costumes ready! On Halloween we run to Arctic Circle in our costumes and get ice cream!

*Autumn Classic - So far we are thinking Thursday 11/7, location TBA, time in the evening (2 mile track race)

Weekly Challenge - 

Week 20 Athletes of the Week - 

Team Builder - 

Tough at Practice - 

Best Performance - 

Race Reports - 
Youngsters Region - Our PVXC Youth Club did great at their Region meet on Monday. The MS boys took 1st with 5 boys in the top 10. The girls took 3rd. On the Elementary side, we didn't have enough to score but did have individuals place 1st and 2nd on the boys side and 4th and 5th on the girls side. Great job Youngsters! We are very excited to have you moving up to the HS level soon.

Region - Although it got a little warm on Tuesday, it was a beautiful day for an XC meet on the St. George Golf Course. The JV girls got us started very well and in dominating fashion. Addie battled to the end and took 2nd. Next came Kennis in 3rd, Kylee placed 4th and was followed by Allison in 6th, Kyanne in 7th, and Emma in 10th. Official team scores had us winning 22 to DH's 63, Cedar 69, Hurricane 78, CV 158, and SC 178 (Dixie and CC no team score). The boys JV had Gabe earning a top 10 medal with a 7th place finish and leading the team to a 3rd place finish (DH 33, Cedar 39, PV 95, CV 116, SC 122, Hurr 124, Dixie 230, CC 242) with Trey, Caleb, Matt, and Bentley rounding out our top 5. On the Varsity side, our boys placed 4th (team scores: DH 51, CC 61, Hurr 77, PV 82, SC 115, CV 121, Dixie 211, CC 250). Luke and Scottie had excellent races and placed 5th and 6th. James also ran very well and finished 12th, less than a second off of being a medalist. Dakota and Boston were our 4th and 5th scorers. The Varsity girls had a great battle with DH and came out with our first Region title in 3 years. We were led by a 4th and 6th place finish by Jessica and Alli. Adri placed 12th followed by Brook in 18th (the top 2 freshman in the race) and Pyper in 19th. Brinley finished in 21st and bumped DH's 5th for our total of 59, to DH's 62, Cedar 99, Hurr 105, Dixie 116, CV 132, SC 164, and CC 215. Great job and Congrats ladies!

Alumni Report -
Josie raced for SUU at the Nuttycomb Invite in Wisconsin this past weekend and ran a very strong race finishing her 6K in just over 22 mins.

Quote of the Week -
"No one can whistle a symphony. I takes a whole orchestra to play it."
-H.E. Luccock
As we come to the State Championships this week, we want to thank every one of you for all you do. Parents: you all give so much time and support for these kids to do great things. Athletes: you're time, effort, and hard work are often marked by significant ups and downs, but the life lessons you learn will grow with you forever. Remember, every person around us is part of our team - all of you have created this orchestra that is PVXC. And when 14 runners hit the course on a crisp fall Wednesday afternoon in Sugar House Park, our whole program will be there to back you up because you are a representation of us and we are a representation of you. We are Proud to be... PVXC. XC4Ever!