Jan. 11 - 23

It was great to have a few more of you comign out for practice this week. Let's keep getting teammates out. Keep recruiting. Keep inviting.

Schedule for the Week:
Distance Crew: Mon-Fri at PVHS; Monday - Thursday - regular practice schedule 3:00p, Tues & Thurs am - 6:15a weights and short run, Friday - 12:45p, Saturday - group run at 8:00 (location TBA) - this week's workouts

Sprint Crew and Jumpers: 1/11-16 Mon & Weds at PVHS - regular practice schedule 3:00p, Friday - 12:45p /  1/18-23 Tues & Weds at PVHS - regular practice schedule 3:00p, Friday - 12:45p 

Throwers: Tuesday and Thursday at PVHS - 3:00p

Thought of the Week: "Most of us yearn for freedom, but structure is key to performance."

-Brad Stulberg
This excerpt is from an article in Outside Magazine. Take a look at the full article (or come get a printed one from Holt). It has some great thoughts about discipline. But until you do, a few thoughts: Sometimes student-athletes will say they prefer to not join the team, or maybe a certain workout, or miss a few days of practice because they want the freedom to do what they want. The reality is that very few, if any, of those who say this actual go on to accomplish much toward their desired goal (in track or another sport, or in any other activity) until they learn the important concept that the very struture they are fighting against is what actually provides the path to achieving great things. Taking a quote from the article: 

"If someone identifies what they really want, achieving it will almost always require some form of restriction, of encroachment on lesser freedoms. If you want to be in the best shape of your life, you probably won’t be free to eat a lot of junk food. If you want to do deeply focused work, you’ll probably want to take the apps and notifications off your phone (or at the very least mute them)."

Remember Kipchoge (the greatest marathoner of all time) said, "Only the disciplined ones in life are free."

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Check out the spring schedule if you haven't yet (one date has changed from last week - DH Invite moved from a Friday to a Saturday)

Participation Fee/Register My Athlete/Physical: Let's get these all taken care of soon. Registermyathlete is super easy and only takes a few minutes to do if you have your physical on file. If you don't have a physical from this year yet, you can still do the registermyathlete just also get your physical scheduled and taken care of ASAP. If you participated in track last year and haven't transferred your fees to another sport (like track last year to XC this year), you will be able to do that for this coming track season (track last year to track this year).