As you saw on Saturday we have a very big conference with about 600 athletes competing! We are always in need of help at our tent for check in and other duties at the meet. One thing we always need are Rabbits for you fast running parents and Turtles for the rest of us. If you would like to run with the races as either a turtle or rabbit please let me know. we especially need help for the youth race. Even though they are older they still need encouragement!! Remember all meet officials and workers are volunteers in the VYC!!

Monday – September 10 @ 5:30 pm  – Central Park Lap-A-thon please come early to pick up chip for lap counting. We will need a few parents to come early to help give out the bibs! 

Tuesday – September 11 @ 6:00 pm  – College of the Canyons no parking pass needed any more!

Thursday – September 13 @ 6:00 pm  – Central Park

Saturday – September 15 @ 8:00 am - XC Meet at O'Melveny Park Granada Hills. Walk Thru 8:15, first race , Gremlin Girls 8:45 and rolling start per age group and gender, every 20 minutes. Please see info below

This year our lap-a-thon will be this week on Monday  September 10  at Central Park, please arrive at 5:30 to get your tag.

The Lap-a-thon is a fund raising event used to support our program and our national athletes. The kids will run laps at Central park while we play music for 40 minutes or so. We will also bring a special treat for them. The kids are encourages to seek donations either of 2 ways a per lap amount such as $3 or $4 dollars per lap or a flat donation of $5 or $10. All kids who raise at least $40.00 will receive a special Lap-a-thon T-shirt. The kids will also be entered into a raffle on a 1 ticket per dollar raised and other prizes will be awarded at the end of season banquet.

Please click here to download the  Lap-a-thon form  and start raising funds. 

The deadline to turn in funds will be Oct 11.

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We will be having a team fundraiser at CPK on Thursday September 27th. We receive 20% of all sells ALL day long even for take out. Please be sure to bring the flyer!

Our first League meet this Saturday is at O'Melveny Park in Granada Hills. This is a very fun course and the kids love it. The parking is very limited and is mostly on the community streets. Please do not park in the "no parking" areas as the neighborhood is not very happy when we are there. Do not block any driveways when parking in the neighborhood. You will have to walk about a quarter mile or more up to the start, so plan on arriving early.

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Hi Team,

Well, we got the first race out of the way and hopefully that means a lot of the unknowns became known! Racing is the pinnacle of the season. We train hard for so many weeks to build to this point!

I’m sorry I missed that race but I continue to be grateful to all of our coaches who have stepped up to help your athletes have the best experience! My observation from the results is that we have a great range of athletes on the team. As I said at the beginning of the season, we pride ourselves on really serving all abilities. And Saturday’s race showed that. As we begin some more intense, speed and hill training, look at this as the time to make big gains. If you weren’t happy with your performance, there is always next week. If you desire to go to post season you have to be intent on cracking into the top 8 in the conference. There were definitely some athletes missing last week so your true test will start this Saturday at O-Melvany.

Let’s first discuss this week’s schedule and purpose. We will be running both farther and faster this week. Just a couple minutes farther on the long run. Tuesday at COC will be run over the Evil Twin but will be faster and harder up the hill!! Thursday, we will run longer repeats over segments of your race course. The goal being to push yourself both mentally and physically. You can get faster… if you want to!! It will be a little cooler this week so that should help with your effort. 

Now let’s discuss O-Melvany. What a great park and course. I know you will all enjoy it. This course doesn’t have big hills but there are gradual hills that make it a tough course. It is probably the most technical course as there are some sharp downhill turns and a lot of exposed rock in sections and ruts in the road. As we go through the walkthrough at the race it will be very important to pay close attention. For parents: parking is always a pain as it seems they only open the main dirt parking lot later in the morning. So.. there is a small asphalt parking lot which will fill up quickly. You must go into the parking lot to see if the next, larger parking lot gate is open. Hopefully it will be. If not, there is only parking on the main road and side roads in the neighborhoods. So plan on giving yourself an extra 10 minutes to walk up to the main home base. Count on 1/3 ^rd of a mile walking. There is some decent shade but this race is always hot so be prepared. 

Assess your nutrition from last week to ensure you improve on that. Gremlins can get away with a bowl of oatmeal. Bantams need a little more. Midgets need a good breakfast plus some electrolyte and maybe granola bar at the race. Youth need all of the above!

Let’s make this a great week. Remember to take care of yourself at home: extra stretching, icing, sleeping, eating, drinking (water)…

See you Tuesday!

Coach Jeremy

The Storm store is your one stop shop for everything from sweats, warm up suits and t-shirts. click the button to check it out.

Remember it will take a few weeks to get items from the store. Now is a good time to order warm ups or sweats for the colder weather. Also parents can show their team spirits and order shirts!!