June 19-24 (Week 3)

We've got a great energy going so far this season... let's keep it up! Encourage everyone to keep reaching out and finding any friends who might want to join us (it's never too late, but now is way better than later), and also encourage each of you to keep the positive vibes rolling.

Purpose of the Week's Workouts: Click here for this week's workouts. Hopefully, if you've been consistent in attendance, you've noticed yourself getting into a bit better shape. We are still working on building up that big engine and we'll keep building for a bit while we also try to tie in some strength based workouts like fartleks and progressions.

Minutes: At this point, we've hit 14 of our possible 75 days of the summer. Keep working out - even when you're out of town and let's hit that goal of 60 days in the summer. Great job to our 17 athletes who didn't miss a practice this week! We'll track this as we track our Week 2 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 Confluence Park near the Dixie Center (Everyone)

Saturday: form own group or on own

Book Club Reading: We'll be discussing Week 2 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 3 Reading pdf / Week 3 Reading google doc 

Upcoming Events:

• Team Party - Wednesday 6:00p at Highland Park
• 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 due by this FRIDAY! and Payment due by June 27th. Athletes will need to be able to complete 30min continuous run by camp (not right now, but by mid July) and attending summer practice regularly. 
• Parents, we really need to figure out rides so we can plan on how many athletes we can take. So if you can drive up/back (both, leave, stay, whatever) put that in the form and we can get all our plans made.
• 24th of July 2 Mile Run - EVERYONE IS INVITED (athletes should be there, family, friends, Youngsters, neighbors...). Race will start at 7:45a at the Fields Park (team will start practice a bit earlier to be all warmed up).

Athletes of the Week - (sorry if I put these in the wrong spots)

Team Builder: Cassie, Sr. - in her first year with XC, she has been an amazing teammate and brings such a positive vibe to the team. 

Team Builder: Helaman, So. - also a new addition to the team this year, he hard work and positive attitude is contagious.

Tough at Practice: Kamaile, Sr. - another first year XC runner, she sets a great example of hard work and growth each day.

Tough at Practice: Ferrell, So. - has shown great improvement through practice attendance and pushing himself to more minutes this season.

PVXC Thought of the Week: "Be like water." 

-Bruce Lee

I actually have a total crush on Bruce Lee, so I know I've used this quote before! But it shows up in this coming week's reading as well. Now, obviously, I didn't know Bruce Lee personally, so I don't know how precisely he lived all this; but as I read and study more about mindfulness, Zen, the state of flow, and all this other stuff, this analogy of being like water just really hits with me. Once again, we won't really get what's so great about it here, rather use this quote as a starting point for your study of Week 3 reading (Ch. 2 in the book) and if nothing else, think about this idea of being like water and what it means and how it can help you in your life and running.