Nov. 1-6 (Week 22)

What a great week. The State trip was a lot of fun - not just running well (and the ladies winning), but the team strength and togetherness shown by everyone who came. Thanks also to the parents and PVXC fam who all came to support. There were a lot of great article written. They are linked in the PVXC in the News sections (except the Spectrum one, it will be added soon).

Purpose of the Week's Workouts: This week's workouts. We will be gearing up now to get ready for our club trip to Nike in Phoenix. We do have a couple spots left - please talk to Coach tomorrow about coming if you haven't yet. The Autumn Classic should be Thursday evening, but it isn't set in stone yet. Sorry about that. We have just got to plan it all our with DH and the unkown of the football schedule kept things up in the air a bit. We will let you know, hopefully, tomorrow.

This Week's Schedule: 

MUST WEAR WHITE OR FLORESCENT (BRIGHT) TO EVERY AM PRACTICE

Monday: AM easy run at 6:15a PVHS (Maroon: off; Silver: optional; Black: required) / afternoon practice 3:00p PVHS (everyone) no team meeting

Tuesday: AM weights and short run at 6:15a PVHS (Maroon: optional; Silver & Black: required) / afternoon practice 3:00p PVHS (everyone)

Wednesday: AM practice at 6:15a PVHS (Silver optional, Black required) / afternoon practice 3:00p PVHS (everyone)

Thursday: AM weights and short run at 6:15a PVHS (Maroon: optional; Silver & Black: required) / RACE: Autumn Classic (info TBA) - if no race afternoon practice 3:00p PVHS (everyone)

Friday: AM run at 6:15a PVHS (everyone) / afternoon practice after school for those who are assigned

Saturday: team long run - time and place TBA

Upcoming Events:

Autumn Classic - Maybe this Thursday at DHHS. Plans are getting finalized. We would probably race around 6-7:00p. This is a 2 mile race we run on the track against DH to sharpen us up for Nike. We'll get a date and time asap.

Team Banquet - TBA, we'll get this scheduled up asap as well.

PVXC Club Trip to Nike - Cost is being calculated... we will let you know ASAP.

Fossil Ridge Turkey Trot - Nov. 23rd, 12:00p-2:00p at Fossil Ridge. Fossil has invited us to come participate in their annual Turkey Trot to run with the kids and have a great time. If you can make it, that would be awesome.

Athletes of the Week: (from Week 20) 

Performance of the Week: (.) - 

Tough at Practice:  (.) - 

Team Builder:  (.) - 

Minutes:
Fill out this form for our 21st week of practice. This is our final week of counting our minutes. So get it caught up. The will be calculated and finalized our minutes awards for the season this week.

Race Report:

Utah 4A State Championships - A very solid State meet to bring our regular season to an end. Although it was a new state course, it was great to be at a state venue and feel the positive vibes from our team and everyone around us. A huge thanks to the Hype Squads - you were all amazing and went all out this year. No doubt the best cheering section in the state! 

In the girls race, the girls got out well and then continued to move up throughout the race. Although DH had its best race of the season and Cedar saw big improvements at the front of their team to go 1 and 2 individually, no one was even really close to us. Our pack of scorers was great, and our 6 and 7 ran strong races as well. It was a great race to close out the season for our Seniors and a good building experience for those who will be back. Brook and Adri ran smart races and moved up through the top 10 throughout the race. Eventually they both used strong pushes in the last mile to place 4th and 6th. Kate used a very strong 2nd half to secure 2nd team All-State with a 13th place finish. And she was followed by Katie in 17th and Brinley in 20th. Kennis followed in 39th displacing most teams scorers and Brecken finished 52nd in her first state meet. Overall, our top 5 in the top 20 led us to a team win by a score of 60 to 89 for DH and Cedar for our 3 straight State Championship, 5th in the last 6 years, and a top two finish for 9 of the last 11 years.

The guys picked a great time to have their best race of the season. Coming off a 5th place finish at Region, the guys moved up a spot to take 4th at State. Trey led the way with a magnificent race where he placed 4th. Kenny and Talmage stayed near each other throughout and finished 29th and 32nd. Then Diego, Porter, Bentley, and Kyler came in near each other in 50th, 51st, 54th, and 64th place. Losing only 1 Senior off the State team, the boys look to continue to push toward the podium in the next few years. The fourth place finish marked the 14th straight year the boys have finished in the top five at State - the 2nd longest active streak in the entire state.

Youngsters: 

Great job to all our Youngsters; we can't wait until you are all with us on the team! And thanks so much to Coach Martha and other who were able to help with the team throughout the season. After State (so on October 28th) any Youngster that would like to come out and run with the HS level of our club team is invited to participate with us. We will continue to meet out front of the school at 3:00 and run throughout the winter.

PVXC Thought of the Week: 
"Peak performance is NOT a one-time thing. Sometimes it's about being GOOD ENOUGH over and over again."

-Brad Stulberg

We've had a wonderful season. Going clear back to June for many of you, we had the hot summer months where we built up all our mileage. When school hit, we had the early mornings and the long hot afternoons where we pushed out hard workouts from August through September. We had many race - some good, others not so much. Then we sharpened things up in October and had a great end to our regular season. Now we get to focus on the next steps. This is often one of the hardest things to do (especially when you've accomplished some great things). It's hard to refocus and get back to the grind. Remember, however, the motto of PVXC - "TO LIVE AND RUN GREATLY" - and living and running greatly isn't done just once. It's something we work on all the time - over and over, day after day. So whatever we are focusing on, let's refocus and keep working on it each day. For our running, that means working toward Nike, and track season, and next year (for many of you), and continuing on through life.