What a great first week! It was awesome to see so many new faces coming out to try this thing and have some fun. And, of course, it was wonderful to have so many back for another year. We gave everyone a challenge to gives this a 2 week try - so keep coming out and give it a full effort (work hard at practice, be involved in team activities, get to know teammates, bring a friend) and we bet you'll want to stay.
Because we have so many new athletes and parents, we'll keep this info up here for one more week (remember if you're reading on your phone, scroll down and click web version so you can see all the links and everything). If you've already read through this and done it, just skip on by:
- read through the Parent/Athlete Meeting slides (if you weren't at the meeting... or even if you were and you want a little more detailed explanation of PVXC) - IF YOU AREN'T GETTING OUR TEAM TEXTS (parents and/or athletes) SEE THE INFO IN THE SLIDES
- get your physical if you haven't yet (turn in to the HS)
- get familiar with the Pre-Run Warm-Up stuff (vid below) and Post-Run (SAM vids on the side tab) stuff we do. Also check out all the docs on the right labeled under "XC Training System Info" and request access to those with your school google account.
- GO GET SOME FRIENDS TO JOIN YOU! Running is a social activity and having friends out there with you is one of the very best things about XC. Call up some friends and invite them to come out with you
- Take a look at the slides for Panther Distance Crew Weight Program - each has a video linked to it to help you learn the correct form. Watch these and get a sense of what you would like to do for our first days in the weight room during our 2nd week of practice.
- HOKA Summer Miles Program - if you want to win some free swag just for doing what you're already doing over the summer, check it out.
- We would also like to recommend those who are running with a smart watch to connect to Strava, so as coaches (and you as athletes) can view the data from your runs. Here's a quick video for Garmin; Here's a vid for Apple Watch; Here's one for FitBit
- Check out "Intro" tab on the workouts (found below) and start thinking about what Level you should be running as we start up the season - we'll help you with this for sure
Purpose of the Week's Workouts: Click here for this week's workouts (you have to request access on your school account to see the workouts, so get that done sometime soon). We are still working on building up that big engine. With consistency, we can add more minutes. Sometimes this is tough and hurts a bit and is a bit of a challenge, but you can do it! And remember this idea: The summer is the most important time in XC.
Minutes: To help emphasize the importance of summer, we will be instituting the Summer 60 Club... we have 75 days from the beginning of summer XC on June 5 to the end of the first week of school on August 19th. The goal of the Summer 60 Club is to encourage each of you (no matter your level or where you're starting from) to get in at least 60 days of running throughout the summer. We'll track this as we track our Week 1 Minutes (fill out the form for the week we just completed).
This Week's Schedule:
Monday: Regular practice at 7:00a at Washington Elem. (Everyone) / Captains meeting at 6:40a
Tuesday: Regular practice at 7:00a at Washington Elem. (Everyone) - Youth Summer Running Club 8:30-9:45 (everyone plan on staying and helping out) / weights after at PVHS (we'd encourage everyone to come, but not required)
Wednesday: Regular practice at 7:00a at Washington Elem. (Everyone)
Thursday: Regular practice at 7:00a at Washington Elem. (Everyone) / weights after at PVHS (we'd encourage everyone to come, but not required)
Friday: Regular practice at 7:00a at Sullivan Park (Everyone)
Saturday: form own group or on own
Book Club Reading: We'll be discussing Week 1 on Tuesday, so get that reading in (go back to last week's post if you need to access the pdf/google doc. Here's the reading for this week: Week 2 Reading pdf / Week 2 Reading google doc
Upcoming Events:
- Team Party - Monday 6:00p Boilers Park. Come play some pickleball, swim, hang, whatever. Bring a friend!
- High Altitude Camp - July 17th-20th at Jacob Lake. Cost is $90. We will need to get this planned and figured out who is going, parents driving (staying for all or part). This is a VERY worthwhile event to be a part of... everyone on the team should make it a priority to join us. Those who are new, talk to your teammates about camp and see why you should plan on being there too. Please take a minute and fill out the following form for participation. Registration and Payment due by June 27th.
Athletes of the Week -
Team Builder: Olivia, So. - has brought a ton of positive energy and is really helping out the less experienced runners now that she has been around for a year.
Team Builder: Nathan H, Fr. - one of the most energetic of our new athletes, he is always keeping the positive vibes flowing.
Tough at Practice: Katie K., Fr. - in her first week with our team, Katie showed a lot of heart working to push with the team.
Tough at Practice: Logan, Sr. - has had a great first week of practice including a very solid long run with the top guys.
PVXC Thought of the Week: "The only way out is always through."
-Robert Frost
The great American poet could have been talking about a literal way out - like a physical journey (to get out of the forest, you have to go through it), but more likely he is alluding to a metaphysical journey. Many of never work our way through the difficult, painful, scary things in our life. Instead we avoid them and "pretend" that we have gotten better at dealing with something. This, however, is (as the kiddos say) gaslighting yourself. You've simply just avoided something... you haven't gotten through it, you haven't improved. Think of talking in front of a group. This is often cited as people's worst fear. What is the only way to get over this fear? Actually go through it... sometimes over and over and over. How does that tie into your running? Your life? Something to think about as you get into this week's reading and come share with the team at our book discussion on the 20th before Kids' Club.
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