December

Thanks to all those who helped support our trip to California this past weekend. We had a successful trip and gained some great experience. All distance (cross country) kids will now take a little 2 week break before we start things back up for indoor. Take this upcoming week entirely off to reset our minds and bodies. Get caught up with schoolwork and everything else you need to do. We do have the Egg Nog Challenge this Friday at the soccer field so you can go to that if you would like to.

As for the rest of the track team we will continue some training this week so follow the following schedule for practices this week:

Schedule for Sprints/Jumps/Throws/Hurdles

Monday December 3rd - No Practice (Parent teacher conferences 3-7 PM)

Tuesday December 4th - Practice @ 2:40 PM (meet up by the weight room on the indoor track)

Wednesday December 5th - Practice @ 2:40 PM (meet up by the weight room on the indoor track)

Thursday December 6th - Practice @ 2:40 PM (meet up by the weight room on the indoor track)

Friday December 7th - No Practice - Egg Nog Challenge for those that want to participate

We will continue to practice the next few weeks until Christmas Break. We will really get into it when we come back from the break. A reminder for those doing outdoor track, you need to get your schedule changed to take the sports conditioning class 8th period next semester (track class).

Spread the word on indoor track and let's get some more people out. Let's have a great week.

First Week of Indoor Track

Hopefully everyone had a great Thanksgiving last week and you are ready for a new week. We will be starting some indoor conditioning for any event. This is also the last week of XC as we will be heading to California on Thursday. Please follow the schedule below based on your event.

Sprints/Throws/Jumps/Hurdles
Monday November 26th - 2:40 PM @ Farmington High (Meet on the indoor track just outside the weightroom)
Thursday November 29th -  2:40 PM @ Farmington High (Meet on the indoor track just outside the weightroom)



XC/Distance Schedule
Monday November 26th - No practice - Run on your own 
Tuesday November 27th - 3:15 @ Farmington High 
Wednesday November 28th - No Practice - Run on your own
Thursday November 29th - Bus leaves Farmington High @ 6:05 AM for California

A few rules & reminders for those going to footlocker:

• ***Everyone needs to have this DISTRICT TRAVEL FORM filled out and given to coach Brower ASAP. Thanks!
• We are staying at La Quinta Inn & Suites in Pamona, CA
• You will need money for food and snacks, other than the breakfast provided by the hotel
• Don't forget your running shoes and racers. You might want road shoes or blank spikes in your spikes for the race.
• You will be school excused, but still need to talk to your teachers and get any work missed.
• You need to be caught up on classwork and assignments before you leave.
• Do NOT test rules on this trip, especially in the hotels or you will be going home via parents.
• We will get back to Farmington High sometime Sunday night.
• Let's go have some fun, race hard, and be respectful and well-mannered while we are down there.

Thanksgiving Week

Sorry for the late post, we just moved and I don't have internet yet so sorry about that. We are going to start indoor training for all events next week after we come back from the break so look for the blog Sunday night to give you info on practice times for next week.

Distance, here is the schedule for this week:

Monday November 19th - No Practice, run on your own (4-5 miles)

Tuesday November 20th - 3:15 Practice @ Farmington High

Wednesday November 21st - No Practice, run on your own (3-4 miles)

Thursday November 22nd - Thanksgiving. No practice. Sign up for a 5k somewhere if you can, if you can't then do a 3 mile tempo.

Friday November 23rd - No Practice, run on your own (4-5 miles)

Saturday November 24th - No Practice - Do a workout later in the day if the snow clears up. If we can let's do 4 x 800 @ Goal race pace ( 3 min active recovery) and then 4 x 400s @ 5 seconds faster than race pace per 400 (90 seconds active rest). If the conditions sill aren't great to do speed let's get a 5 mile stamina run in. So NO PRACTICE.

November 12-18th

Thanks to everyone who came out to our indoor track meeting. We will get started with practice for sprints, hurdles, throws, and jumps when we get back from Thanksgiving break. Check the blog to find practice times when we get back. Those that are on the distance team will will continue to train through until footlocker (which is only a few weeks away).

If you haven't signed up for the race for Footlocker make sure you do it ASAP. Starting tomorrow (Monday) the price goes up. Go HERE to sign up for the race.

Here is the distance schedule for the week:

Monday November 12th: No Practice - Run on your own

Tuesday November 13th: 3:15 PM @ Forbush Park

Wednesday November 14th: No Practice - Run on your own

Thursday November 15th: 3:15 PM @ Farmington High

Friday November 16th: No Practice - Run on your own

Saturday November 17th: Special Olympics 5k @ Jefferson Academy (1425 S Angel Street, Kaysville) @ 9 AM
Cost is free to enter. You can purchase a race shirt for $10. If you know who Hyrum Palmer is he is the one doing it for his eagle project. Great opportunity to get a race in and it's free.

Indoor Track Meeting

Thanks again to everyone who came and supported us at our banquet last week. It was a fun night to celebrate our first ever XC season. We are so excited for what is to come. This week we have a few workouts, a race, and our indoor track meeting. Tell your friends who are interested in doing some indoor track with us. We will meet on Wednesday, November 7th at 6:30 PM in the commons at the high school. Those going to footlocker please make sure you are coming to practice and if you haven't already, please pay for your trip at the main office. Thanks to those who have already paid.

I also will be taking room requests for Footlocker at this time. I need to have rooms figured out by Wednesday this week so please fill out this Room Request form if you have any requests for who to room with.

Schedule this week:

Monday November 5th: 3:15 PM @ Farmington High

Tuesday November 6th: No practice - Run on your own

Wednesday November 7th: Pre-Nike Race @ Layton Park @ 4:00 PM
There will just be one race (boys and girls at the same time) - there is no cost. Make sure you get there with time to warm up.

Indoor Track Meeting - 6:30 PM @ Farmington High Commons

Thursday November 8th: No practice - Run on your own

Friday November 9th: 3:15 PM @ Farmington High

Saturday November 10th: 8:00 AM @ Ponds Park

XC Banquet

This week we have our cross country banquet at the school at 6 PM. If you haven't paid for your extra people attending please do so ASAP. Again, I will pay for the athlete's meal, parents or other attendees need to pay ($10 each).

Also, we have footlocker coming up in 5 weeks. If you signed up to go, you need to pay your money ASAP to the office. Also don't forget that YOU need to sign yourself up for the race. I don't sign you up for this one like other races in the past so please go to Footlocker West and sign up for your race. I will also be posting our footlocker itinerary so you know what to expect for our trip (look on the footlocker page).

For practices from here until Footlocker we will meet on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays to do workouts. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays we will not meet officially as a team but you should still be running. If you would like to meet up together for runs that is fine, I just won't be there on those days. Be sure to log all of your runs on Strava.

Monday October 29th - No official practice - run on your own

Tuesday October 30th -3:15 PM @ Farmington High

Wednesday October 31st - No official practice - run on your own

Thursday November 1st - 3:15 PM @ Farmington High
6 PM - Banquet @ the commons (Farmington High)

Friday November 2nd - No official practice - run on your own

Saturday November 3rd - Pre-Footlocker @ American Fork High. This is an optional race but if you want to go you will need to find your own ride down there. The cost will be $4. Be there in plenty of time to register and warm up.
Girls Race - 8:30
Boys Race - 9:00

Last Full Week of October

Farmington!! Great job last week at state. Way to represent. Thanks to everyone who came and supported our team. Our girls placed 7th and our boys snagged 3rd place. Not too bad for our first year. We got some great experience and we put our school on the map. Great job to everyone who ran and congrats to Elisabeth for placing 6th and earning all-state honors.

Thanks to the Orison's for hosting our team dinner last week and thanks to all those who helped with food. Thanks again to everyone who helped with the team dinners this year. You guys are all so great.

This week we will pick things back up on Wednesday and continue training for Footlocker. Please come to practice if you are going to Footlocker. We will meet a few times this week and then we will meet on workout days a few times a week. The other days you can meet up with other team members or run on your own but we won't be meeting every single day. Please continue to run everyday like before and make sure to log your runs on Strava. We want to perform well when we go to footlocker. 

In regards to Footlocker, please sign up for your race here. If you wait too long the price will go up (11/11) so get signed up now. Don't forget we have our team banquet coming up on the 1st of November so put that on your calendars and if you haven't paid for your extra people please go to the office and pay into the cross country account for that. Also if you haven't paid your footlocker money yet ($300) please go to the office and do so ASAP.

Here is the schedule this week:

Monday October 22nd: No Practice (Cross train on your own)

Tuesday October 23rd: No Practice (Cross train on your own)

Wednesday October 24th: 3:00 PM @ Farmington High School - 9th graders we will be running from the high school over to Eagle Bay elementary school so you can just meet us there at Eagle Bay elementary by 3:30 PM. We are running with the elementary school kids. We will then run back to the school when we are done. 

Thursday October 25th: 3:15 PM @ Farmington High School

Friday October 26th: 3:15 PM @ Farmington High School

Saturday October 28th: 8:00 AM @ Vita Trailhead (1533 E. 650 N. Fruit Heights)