We had a tremendous XC season. Thanks so much to all of you who helped in any way: parents, PV, bus drivers, our Youngsters crew (especially Coach Martha), coaches, and most of all - you athletes; thank you for letting us coach you and for being an amazing part of our lives.
Two Week Break: for your break, remember, 2 weeks. Be active during this time: lift, walk, bike, yoga, whatever. No running the first week. If you feel ready to, during the second week, you can do a few 20 minute runs.
When Break is Over: Those who have already hit their break and are ready to get back running, you can come out to the track after school and we'll organize some runs together to get going. Everyone else, we will start up together on December 19th. THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO INVITE FREINDS AND OTHERS OUT TO JOIN US! We will all be starting new, and so it isn't as scary for someone to start up when we are all going a bit shorter. So I challenge everyone of you to get 1 new person out... Sophomores and Freshmen - you have to get 2 new people out! You are the heart of our future team; we need more 9th and 10th graders.
Running Over the Holiday Break: It is real important to run over the break. Runs will be posted at pvtrack.blogspot. This time is like the summer is to XC. Maybe you might miss a day or have to change the planned run because you're out of town or something, but remember... CONSISTENCY IS KEY! When we get back from the break, we will be doing a time trial to help set our workout paces - so you want to be in decent shape by doing the prescribed runs, strides, and post-run work.
Nike Southwest: We had a great club trip down to Phoenix for Nike. A lot of great racing, fun times on the bus, and just being around our teammates. Check out the results here.
Champs West: About 20 athletes headed down to Southern California for the Champs West Regional. It was a great race, and probably the best PV has ever done down there as a whole. With about half our team, we had 13 or so medalists and Brook and Trey were some of our highest placing individuals in program history.
NOW IT'S TRACK TIME: So we've brought up the idea of the importance of running track. It really is a big deal to connect the seasons. So hopefully everyone decides to join us and bring some friends. Those who are in a winter sport, try to keep getting in a little run here and there just to keep the body connected to the skills of running (but hopefully your sport is keeping you in decent shape and then you can really ramp up the running when your season ends).
As we transition to track, we'll be using the track blog found at the link above. So go there for some winter info.
