What a week - races, school, masks, car wash... busy stuff. Thanks for the great attitude you all had. Now we keep on rolling with a lot more of the same. Please bring your car wash papers and $2 per car wash you sold to practice Monday afternoon.
Also, a little thought about health/masks that I saw online: "Utah HS athletes/fans, Thousands of other HS athletes aren't playing right now. Please don't assume your season is guaranteed. It's not! Be smart. Be healthy. Practice social distancing. Wear masks. Be careful hanging out after practices & games, require others (to) do so as well. Lead!" This is so big. The Cedar All-Comers got national press because it (along with a meet up north) was the first multiple team meet in country! We are pretty lucky to be having a season. Let's keep it by earning it with our actions. Stay healthy!
Purpose of the Week's Workouts: This week's workouts - we continue the SWEP phase of our workouts. Since we really have a lot of afternoon runs, we will continue to work on acclimating and keeping our afternoon minutes down to help us adjust to the new stresses of school and heat. It's going to be a hot week, so make sure you are really keeping hydrated and rested. This week, we will start our first full week of our "School Schedule". Levels 2-4 will have their long run on Monday morning; Level 1s can decide if they want a longer morning run on Monday or an afternoon run. After school on Monday, everyone will meet in the lecture hall at the high school for a team meeting; then we will do drills and those that have an afternoon run will get that in. On Wednesday, we have a workout in the afternoon - but with the very high expected heat, we may very likely switch this workout to Weds morning (we'll, of course, update you on this). On Saturday we have a meet at Canyon View (see info below). We'll once again be looking for about 10-15 of you to catch a ride with your parents - so talk about it and see if you can; we'll discuss this at our Monday meeting.
<<<PLEASE WEAR BRIGHT or WHITE TO ALL AM RUNS>>>
This Week's Schedule:Mon - am - 5:45a (Level 2-4, Level 1 you decide which workout plan you want to follow - see workouts); afternoon - 3:00p team meeting in lecture hall followed by practice (Everyone - even Level 1s who ran in the morning, you will do drills with the team following meeting but no run)
Tue - am - 6:15a weights and run (Level 2-4, optional Level 1); afternoon - 3:00p (Everyone)
Wed - am - 6:15a (Level 2-4, no Fresh); afternoon - 3:00p (Everyone) - workout may be moved to 6:00a because of heat (if so, we will switch morning and afternoon)
Thur - am - 6:15a weights and run (Level 2-4, optional Level 1); afternoon - 3:00p (Everyone)
Fri - BECAUSE OF EARLY OUT SCHOOL FOR ATHLETES BUT NOT TEACHERS/COACHES, WE ARE CHANGING OUR FRIDAY MORNINGS TO OUR MAIN PRACTICE THIS YEAR. This means all athletes need to be to practice Friday morning (a few may need to do their practice after school because of am commitments - please arrange with the coaches). This will allow for those who are doubling on Fridays to do their afternoon run as small groups right after school and those who aren't doubling to have the afternoon off. Two important notes: 1) These Friday mornings will be required (unless previously arranged). 2) This schedule makes Saturday's even more important. Skipping a Saturday run could mean up to 80 hours with no running - that obviously would not be very effective!
So having said that: am - 6:15a Friday (everyone); afternoon - 12:30p (Levels 2-4 if doubling)
Sat - Race at Canyon View (info below)
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.
Upcoming Events:
Race - Canyon View All-Comers: August 22nd. Youngsters at 8:15a, Varsity boys at 8:45a, Varsity girls at 9:15a, followed by two heats (each) of JV boys and girls. Bus will be leaving PVHS at 7:00a - as a rule we ask ALL athletes to ride the bus up to the meet; however, we do need between 10-15 athletes to ride up with their parents so we can take the whole team to the meet. This MUST be arranged beforehand. An athlete may only ride with his/her parent/guardian (not a family friend, neighbor, or even another family member!). A couple other meet protocols we follow: 1) Athletes must stay throughout the full meet to be there to support our team. If a parent wants to take an athlete home, please do so after all our team has participated and after signing out with a coach (usually Coach Decker). 2) We know that after a race is an exciting time to go up and tell your son/daughter how proud of them you are! But we are asking that you give the athletes time to be with their team and get into the completion of their cool down (and occasionally a workout) before you go give them all the elbow bumps and hugs - usually this will be about 20 minutes after the race. 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.
Race - Timpanogos Invite: Sept. 5th. 8:00a Lake Side Park, Orem. This will be a Varsity (top 7 boys and girls) travel meet. We will leave Friday, then stay overnight in Utah Country to race Saturday morning before returning home.
Athletes of the Week: Performance - Tough at Practice - Team Builder -
Race Report:
Desert Relays - This may have been the first official meet in the country this year. We squared off with DH in our annual relay race. The format is 3 athlete teams where each athlete runs 1 lap of the Bloomington Hills North Park Course in a relay style format. The scores are then calculated in the usual XC style format with each team representing 1 "person" based upon team finish. The great thing about this format is that nearly the whole everyone is contributing to the scoring for our team. Being such an early meet, not much is expected, but it is a great way to get the rust off the legs. The girls won the coveted cross-stitch bear for the 5th time in the 7 year history of this meet. We were led by a second place finish by the team of Pyper, Brinley and Alli - both Brinley and Alli won plates for the fastest legs of the meet. The boys ran well, but didn't come out on top. Our strongest leg was Jason who won the bowling pin for leg 3.
Cedar All-Comers - Results can be found at
athletic.net. Our F/S girls took the win (28-63 for DH) led by Adri who absolutely ran away with the win. She was followed by Brooklyn who continues to recover from her injury well placing 2nd, Kate in 6th, Amelia in 8th and Katie in 11th to round out our scoring. We had many other great performances from our underclass ladies including strong races from Hannah and Brianna. The F/S boys took 2nd to SC despite missing a key athlete or two. Bryan and Keaton took 6th and 7th, followed by Trey in 11th, and Grant and Gaige in 18th and 21st. Talmage also ran well. In the girls Jr/Sr race, the Panthers placed 2nd just 3 points back on DH. We were led by top 10 finishes from Alli (4th), Brinley (6th) and Pyper (9th). Emma ran well for a 14th place finish and Kyanne finished up our scoring with a good 16th place. The Jr/Sr boys placed 4th while having a very strong 3rd place finish from Scottie and a 10th place from Jason.
PVXC Thought of the Week:
"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success."
-Henry Ford
We've had a great summer of coming together. As we transition into the school year with all its challenges and further into the season with harder workouts and races, we need to move further along the continum mention by Ford in this quote. Now is the time we stay together, support each other, be there for each other. As we do this, we can move into working together. That is where we will find our greatest selves; our truest success.
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