Wow what a fun meet for those who were able to make it to Legg Lake! Times were fast and it was a great experience. It was also the first time we ran our top athletes in the Conference together as Valley United Striders! This is our top 8 athletes in the Conference and they did amazing. If your athletes has been running in the top 16 of the conference they may be invited to run on our National team after our regular season. Post season athletes will need to travel for meets, and there is additional team and travel expenses fees. Please see Coach Elaine if you are interesting in the Post Season.

Congrats to Coach Jimmy for winning the 5K Open race with a time of 16:07.6! That was a full minute faster than his last years time!! we also had 14 athletes that ran the same distance last year PR. on the course with a shout out to Kenzie Calderon with the biggest P.R. of 2 minute and 15 seconds for the girls and Noah Florian with a 1 minute and 30 second P.R., the biggest P.R for the boys !! Many others that changed distances had great times as well. 

This week's meet will be at the historic Peirce College cross country course. This is one of the oldest courses we have ran on, and the athletes will meet the famous "Puck Hill" We love hills! 

Race Pictures  

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Scholastic Award Due Thursday! - We will be awarding academic medals at our end of the season Banquet on November 6th, to the athletes that have a 3.5 (B+) average and 4.0 (A) grades We feel it is very important to recognize the academic achievement during our season. You can either bring the most recent report card, progress report, or have their teachers fill out this form. The deadline to turn this in is October 14th. 

Scholastic Form

Practice Week of Oct. 10 

Monday - Central Park - 6:00 -7:15 

Tuesday - Central Park - 6:00 -7:15     

Thursday - Central Park - 6:00 - 7:15   

Saturday - 7:30 am -Meet at Peirce College  

Storm Last Day of Practice 

On Thursday October 27th we will be having a fun event after our short practice. Jane Woodworth would like to help set up Trick or Treat stations in the park for a fun filled cool down. We are asking all parents to donate a bag of candy and we hope to have at least 5 stations directed in your favorite Halloween décor. Her is a flyer of what we need. Jane will be setting up a Pirate themed station. Please let her know if you can help bring decorations for a station. Idea's may be a scaring ghost station, fun Jack- o- lantern station or anything you would like. This is a blast for the kids and will make their last regular practice fun!! Please the flyer for all information!  

Coach Jeremy's Notes to the Team

Hey there Storm Team!!!

Great job athletes Saturday at the invitational! The course lived up to its promise of being suuuppppper faaaaaaaaaaaaaast…. I warned you though that flat and fast, doesn’t mean easier than hilly. It takes a different mindset to run at 100% the whole race… 

Kudo’s to all of you, it was great to watch you battle.

With 3 weeks left in the season we start to shift our mindset to more and more speed. Now is the time to fine tune all the hard work into being in the best racing shape to finish the season strong!

Tonight will be an easier long run. I’ll encourage you to start off on the run easier than normal and work throughout to pick up the pace as you loosen up.

Tuesday night we’ll hit it a little harder again with some hills. 

Thursday will be some fast repeats and then we get ready for Pierce College!

Giving you a heads up, Pierce College is the exact opposite of Legg Lake. You basically take 2 mounds of dirt and run up and down and back and forth over the first mound, down a steep hill and up the infamous “Pukes Hill”, down the backside and a 400 flat drag strip to the finish! Overall a fun course, but there are 2 things we’ll confirm to watch out for:

1. The start. You gotta get out for 100 yards if you want to be in the front.
2. There are plenty of rocks and ruts in the course to pay attention to so you have to be alert!!

This week as you mentally prepare for another race, be observant out there as you run. The more you train your mind to be alert, the more focused you will be.

That’s what I have for this week.

Hard to imagine only 3 more weeks, but let’s buckle down and finish strong! Athletes, it’s not too late to make an impact and move up the leader board. 

So, let’s get after it!

Thank you all and I’ll see you Tuesday night!

Coach Jeremy