We're right toward the end of the season for some of you. So we want to bring up a huge idea: distance running (more than most any other sport) is built upon CONSISTENCY and building week after week, month after month, and year after year. We'll look at all your growth from Cedar in just a minute, and I hope that the data and the idea of CONSISTENCY really shows you how important it is to keep running. We'll have a lot of opportunities to keep running this winter. We implore you to keep running! Even those that are going to do another sport... it is so important to keep running over the winter and then link that to spring track and then back to XC again next summer. This is how you really grow at this sport - and when you see this real growth, it becomes another reason to love this life-long (and life-changing) activity.
Purpose of the Week's Workouts: Click here for a link to this week's workouts. We'll be on a pretty usual schedule this week. JV runners will notice that their minutes are cut down a bit in some of the runs to help you get ready for a fresher Region meet next week, while the Varsity will keep things pretty solid for now. Use the Weekly Minutes form to go enter the number of days you ran and your total minutes from this past week (Week 17).
This Week's Schedule: **wear White or Bright to every am practice**
Monday: AM - 6:15a at PVHS (White, Black, Silver: expected; Maroon: optional; Beginners: no) Maroon can decide if they want to come in the am or not (those that do will do our drills and wickets in the pm, those that don't will get a run in the pm) / PM after school at PVHS (Everyone, this is our main practice) and Youngsters.
Tuesday: AM - 6:15a at PVHS Regen run and weights (White, Black, Silver: expected; Maroon: optional; Beginners: no) / PM after school at PVHS (Everyone, this is our main practice)
Wednesday: AM - 6:15a at PVHS Regen run (Black: expected; Silver: optional; Maroon and Beginners: no) and yoga (all invited to yoga at 6:45a) / PM after school at PVHS (Everyone, this is our main practice) and Youngsters.
Thursday: AM - 6:15a at PVHS Regen run and weights (White, Black, Silver: expected; Maroon: optional; Beginners: no) / PM after school at PVHS (Everyone, this is our main practice) and Youngsters
Friday: AM - 6:00a at PVHS (Everyone, this is our main practice) / PM after school at PVHS (White: expected; Black & Silver: optional; Maroon, Beginners: no)
Saturday: up at the marathon aid station (info will be coming out soon about meeting time and location)
Upcoming Events:
- Race: Region 9 Championships - October 6th (Tues) at Bloomington Hills North Park; JV Girls 4:00p, JV Boys 4:40p, Var Girls 5:15p, Var Boys 5:45p; no bus *We will need some help from PARENTS for the finish line and as course officials - look for info coming out on Binderly soon*
- Race: 4A Divisionals - October 14th (Weds) at Lake Side Park, Orem; time around noon, but TBA (depends on our placement at Region) Var Girls, Var Boys; travel info TBA (Varsity and a couple alternates only)
- Race: 4A State Championships - October 28th (Weds) at Sugar House Park, Salt Lake; Var Girls 2:30p, Var Boys 3:15p; Varsity races, but whole team is invited, travel info TBA
- Race: JV State Championships - October 31st (Sat) at Spanish Fork Sports Complex, Spanish Fork; JV Girls 11:00a, JV Boys 11:30a; Team has to sign you up (last day Oct. 29th), but athletes will plan your own travel/lodging plans *also open to Youngsters down to 5th grade*
- Race: Autumn Classic - November 5th (Thurs) (POSSIBLE DATE) at PVHS; Girls 7:00p, Boys 7:20p; 2 mile on the track
- PVXC Awards Night - date and info to be announced soon (athlete and families invited)
- Race: Nike Southwest Regionals - November 21st (Sat) at Toka Sticks Golf Course, Mesa; race times TBA; club travel trip to Az, leave Friday morning (20th), race 21st *also open to Youngsters*
- Race: Brooks West Regionals - December 5th (Sat) at Mt. SAC, LA area; race times TBA; club travel trip, but athletes plan own travel/lodging *also open to Youngsters*
PVXC Thought of the Week: "Be where your feet are."
- coach_ray_o3313 (Insta)
This quote can go for a lot of things. In running, we might say keep focused on the present: the rep are on, the drill you are doing, the mile you are racing. Hopefully, you remember we are all about "LIVING AND RUNNING GREATLY" and can see that being where your feet are can be applied in anything you do. The quote continues, "Cherish the reps. Enjoy the jokes and camaraderie. These are all the little moments you'll wish you could get back. You can't rewind the clock to get back time. Don't waste it. Don't take it for granted or wish it away. Appreciate the struggle, the folks beside you and the opportunity to execute and improve. Be present. Give 100%. Make today count." This time, here with your friends, doing difficult things everyday, working together, being weird together, accomplishing together... this is a time that you should be loving. Maybe some things are hard and it might be difficult to say I love all of it, but enjoy the moments, enjoy the fun, enjoy the runs, enjoy being a part of PVXC, enjoy the effort and the journey. Enjoy where you are and what you are doing right now.
Race Report:
Cedar Invite - We had another great race at Cedar. Both boys groups took 1st and both girls groups took 3rd. Congrats to our medalists: JV Girls - Lydia (3rd) and Andi (4th); JV Boys - Will P. (1st), Nathan (2nd), Miles (4th), Sebastian (7th), and Finn (8th); Varsity Girls - Tevye (2nd) and Vanessa (7th); Varsity Boys - Benji (2nd), Elliot (3rd), Nate (4th), Will D (10th). Results. We wanted to take a minute and talk about the Cedar Improvements for the year: One of the great things about Cedar is being able to compare how each of us has grown through the year and over multiple years. This year was a little different, however, because the Cedar All-Comers was cancelled and we ran the Cedar City Invite in place of SUU. Running this on a Saturday morning and just the way the day went, made the first Cedar race of the year very fast. So when we look at a comparison of times, some of you may not have seen the improvement that we usually do. Nonetheless, we can guarantee you that pretty much everyone on the team ran harder, faster, smarter, and responded to the difficulties of racing better this past week than you did back in August. So if you time isn't necessarily faster, do not think that you haven't improved. You have! Hard work and CONSISTENT work will always pay off, and there is no doubt each runner on this team is better today than they were back in August. Having said that, take a look at the Cedar Improvement sheet and see how it looks for you. A few shout outs for big improvements: Nate - nearly 30 secs faster (at his level, that is very impressive), Hudson - over 50 sec improvement, Sam and Bennett both with 38 sec improvement, and big gains for our freshmen - Aiden, Marcus, Calin, and Braxton all went from 24 secs to over a minute faster, all of our Junior girls went right around a minute faster with Jenevieve leading the list at 1:38, big improvements for our Sophomore girls with many near a minute including Lyndie and Lydia around 1:20, Ginger at 54 seconds faster, and our biggest improvement in the past month comes from Jovi at 1:50! Great job everyone... and that's just improvements in times; remember, we have all improved in many other ways, too.
Our Middle School program: Great job to those that raced on Saturday. Everyone ran very well. This week we will have practice on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday after school at PVHS. This is a developmental camp hosted by our HS and is available for 6th-8th graders.
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