Purpose of the Week's Workouts: This week's workouts are designed to help us continue to build up a mileage (minutes) base. We like to call this time the Foundation because, as with all things build to stand the test of time and hold a lot of weight, the stronger the Foundation you create right now, the more you will be able to build on it as we continue through the year and years to come. This week, this will include a longer run (with some intro to tempo) and an introduction to Pace Work - a workout where we include shorter intervals of varying paces to help you strengthen your aerobic fitness.
This Week's Schedule:
This week, we'll keep having practice at Washington Elementary Monday through Thursday and on Friday, we will meet at Confluence Park (2099 S Convention Center Dr, St. George). Each day we will meet at 7:00a. Weights on Tuedays and Thursdays after our run, we will go (as a team) over to PVHS and spend 30mins in the weight room going through our routing (please do your best to build this into your schedule).
Team Goal Setting Party on Tuesday at noon! We will swim and have lunch. Please do everything you can to come. (And this would be a great way to introduce a friend to XC.)
Food assignments (if you can):
Freshmen - treat
Sophomores - chocolate milk
Juniors - salad and ranch
Senior boys - chips
Senior girls - hamburger buns
Weekly Challenge:
Each week we ask you to report for minutes from the past week. 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. So your challenge this week is to record your minutes from the past week and set a new goal for yourself for this coming week.
Book Club:
We will be discussing this week's pages on Tuesday at practice.
If you haven't done these things yet, please do:
- registermyathlete - get it done! Go to registermyathlete.com (the registration part needs to be done this week - physical and fees can be completed later)
- 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 - we are still in a little flux with some of the meets (particularly travel meets).
Youth Summer Running Club Challenge #3:
Thanks to the Youngesters (grades K-8th) and parents who posted pics and tagged @pvxctrack of last week's challenge of racing the obstacle course and 40 meter dash over at Hell Hole Park! It looked like quite a few of you went out had a great time..
This week, we'll send you over to another park for your challenge. Your Challenge #3 is to go to Sullivan Park and run on the grass around some of the soccer fields - running on grass is what XC is all about! It is a different kind of running and pretty fun to feel the soft grass under your feet. So, go run a few laps around some of the soccer fields and see if you can run for 10 minutes or even more. If you aren't able to make it to the park, don't worry, go any other place nearby that has a bit of grass and run around for a few minutes.
Remember, we are doing this in place of our usual summer club. If you are able to do 8 of our 10 weekly challenges you will earn a special award. And if you complete your summer marathon of 26.2 miles, you'll earn your certificate. So use the links below to keep track of your progress and keep up the good work!
This week, we'll send you over to another park for your challenge. Your Challenge #3 is to go to Sullivan Park and run on the grass around some of the soccer fields - running on grass is what XC is all about! It is a different kind of running and pretty fun to feel the soft grass under your feet. So, go run a few laps around some of the soccer fields and see if you can run for 10 minutes or even more. If you aren't able to make it to the park, don't worry, go any other place nearby that has a bit of grass and run around for a few minutes.
Remember, we are doing this in place of our usual summer club. If you are able to do 8 of our 10 weekly challenges you will earn a special award. And if you complete your summer marathon of 26.2 miles, you'll earn your certificate. So use the links below to keep track of your progress and keep up the good work!
T-Shirt Order Form - The kids like the shirts and we are able to make a few dollars as a fundraiser for our program for each shirt... If you would like to order T-Shirts this year, please fill out the order form and Venmo $10 per shirt to @Dave-Holt77 by Monday, June 15th.
"I used to believe that the goal of meditation was to stop thoughts. But as I did my work off the tee, I learned that... [r]ather than stopping thoughts, meditation is about shifting one's awareness out of thought by focusing attention on something else."
-Shawn Green
It's in this week's reading... we'll talk about it on Tuesday.
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