2008 Moorestown Cross Country Team


2008 Team Training Racing MDRC Support History 2006 Guidebook Girls XC	2008 Moorestown Cross Country Weekly Update November 2 This Past Week Tuesday was the worst day for a workout in my 5 years at MXC. About 39 degrees, raining pretty hard and very windy. Since it had been raining since they called the Phillies game in the 6th inning the previous evening, the 1000 meter loop around the new fields was filled with puddles. But we are mudders at MXC, and so we decided to do the workout. And it will be the workout that we will all remember for a long time. 5 tough 1000's made extreme by the weather. Wolff could not move his fingers to take his gloves off afterwards. Ringwood shared the Big Mac he had 20 minutes before we ran between the 4th and 5th 1000. Matteson randomly screamed. Even Friedman looked like the weather wore on him - and he always looks forward to workouts. If there is ever need for motivation in a race - they can remember back to this day and tell themselves that workout will not be in vane. Wednesday evening we had movie night at the store, watching "The Long Green Line". It is a great movie about one of the top cross country teams in the country, York High School, and follows them thru their 2005 season. We'll have a discussion with the underclassmen in the next couple of weeks about what they learned and what aspects of that successful program we should incorporate in our goals and strategy. We had a much more pleasant workout on Friday on the track, where Ringwood ran one of the best 12 X 400 workouts ever (comparable to Healey and Reinhart and Brian Holaday senior spring track workouts), and again did his Big Mac Magic (now you don't see it, now you do). Then a nice long run on Saturday again. The bad news of the week is that Greenwood sat the entire week trying to heal up the groin injury he has had since August. Hopefully this will heal him up a bit for this coming week. Keep your fingers crossed. The other big activity this past week was the Bridge Run. We had 7 guys run it - Robinson 35th overall, Steve Szumski - 77th, Schwartz - 104th, Lavery, Inglis, Nece, Hendrickson, and Regan. Sounded like everyone had fun. This is a great idea to do during the winter - not racing hard, but doing races as a way to mix up the training and get together with others for some fun. The Coming Week Well, we are finally ready for Sectionals - and I think everyone is motivated to get back in a real race. We will have a bus to Delsea for the Championship and Farm Teams. Other guys who want to come and cheer, check with Eagles if there will be space on the bus. Group 3 Boys will race first - at 10AM. Bus time will be announced at Practice. Picnic - We will have a picnic after the race at Delsea on Saturday with the Girls Team (they race at 10:50). We will be bringing hoagies and the Girls team will bring drinks. Parents that are coming down are encouraged to call Kathy and coordinate what else they can bring - chips, dessert, etc. Her contact information is mtownwolff@comcast.net, 727-0426. Banquet - November 19, 6PM at the MHS Cafeteria. Kira Fauvell 273-5899 and Nancy Balch 914-9988 are coordinating this. If you can help, please contact them at kkfauvell@comcast.net and balchslugz@comcast.net. All runners and parents should plan on attending, and other family members are welcome. We get good food, so we will collect probably $10 per person. Turkey Trot - Thanksgiving Morning. We will start advertising this week for the Turkey Trot. We need lots of volunteers to help with food and course watching and starting line and finish line. If you can help, please contact Judy Greenwood at judygreenwoodcb@msn.com or 235-3890. Special MXC Apparel Ordering Program! http://www.moorestownxc.org/2008Team/MXC-OrderForm.pdf. Kathy Wolff and Nancy Cataleno have put together a great selection of MXC apparel for runners and their families to show their MXC pride. High quality stuff, with nice stitching of our MXC logos. Please order ASAP as we are closing the orders. Thanks! Finally, a special thanks to all the parents. Your support for the team by coming out to meets and volunteering to help with all of our special projects really make our lives as coaches much easier, and brings a whole higher level of community to our team. If you have not volunteered yet - please chose one of the activities above and reach out - I promise it will be fun for you and great for the whole team! Asics 2140

This Past Week

Tuesday was the worst day for a workout in my 5 years at MXC. About 39 degrees, raining pretty hard and very windy. Since it had been raining since they called the Phillies game in the 6th inning the previous evening, the 1000 meter loop around the new fields was filled with puddles. But we are mudders at MXC, and so we decided to do the workout. And it will be the workout that we will all remember for a long time. 5 tough 1000's made extreme by the weather. Wolff could not move his fingers to take his gloves off afterwards. Ringwood shared the Big Mac he had 20 minutes before we ran between the 4th and 5th 1000. Matteson randomly screamed. Even Friedman looked like the weather wore on him - and he always looks forward to workouts. If there is ever need for motivation in a race - they can remember back to this day and tell themselves that workout will not be in vane.

Wednesday evening we had movie night at the store, watching "The Long Green Line". It is a great movie about one of the top cross country teams in the country, York High School, and follows them thru their 2005 season. We'll have a discussion with the underclassmen in the next couple of weeks about what they learned and what aspects of that successful program we should incorporate in our goals and strategy.

We had a much more pleasant workout on Friday on the track, where Ringwood ran one of the best 12 X 400 workouts ever (comparable to Healey and Reinhart and Brian Holaday senior spring track workouts), and again did his Big Mac Magic (now you don't see it, now you do). Then a nice long run on Saturday again.

The bad news of the week is that Greenwood sat the entire week trying to heal up the groin injury he has had since August. Hopefully this will heal him up a bit for this coming week. Keep your fingers crossed.

The other big activity this past week was the Bridge Run. We had 7 guys run it - Robinson 35th overall, Steve Szumski - 77th, Schwartz - 104th, Lavery, Inglis, Nece, Hendrickson, and Regan. Sounded like everyone had fun. This is a great idea to do during the winter - not racing hard, but doing races as a way to mix up the training and get together with others for some fun.

The Coming Week

Well, we are finally ready for Sectionals - and I think everyone is motivated to get back in a real race. We will have a bus to Delsea for the Championship and Farm Teams. Other guys who want to come and cheer, check with Eagles if there will be space on the bus. Group 3 Boys will race first - at 10AM. Bus time will be announced at Practice.

Picnic - We will have a picnic after the race at Delsea on Saturday with the Girls Team (they race at 10:50). We will be bringing hoagies and the Girls team will bring drinks. Parents that are coming down are encouraged to call Kathy and coordinate what else they can bring - chips, dessert, etc. Her contact information is mtownwolff@comcast.net, 727-0426.

Banquet - November 19, 6PM at the MHS Cafeteria. Kira Fauvell 273-5899 and Nancy Balch 914-9988 are coordinating this. If you can help, please contact them at kkfauvell@comcast.net and balchslugz@comcast.net. All runners and parents should plan on attending, and other family members are welcome. We get good food, so we will collect probably $10 per person.

Turkey Trot - Thanksgiving Morning. We will start advertising this week for the Turkey Trot. We need lots of volunteers to help with food and course watching and starting line and finish line. If you can help, please contact Judy Greenwood at judygreenwoodcb@msn.com or 235-3890.

Special MXC Apparel Ordering Program! http://www.moorestownxc.org/2008Team/MXC-OrderForm.pdf. Kathy Wolff and Nancy Cataleno have put together a great selection of MXC apparel for runners and their families to show their MXC pride. High quality stuff, with nice stitching of our MXC logos. Please order ASAP as we are closing the orders. Thanks!

Finally, a special thanks to all the parents. Your support for the team by coming out to meets and volunteering to help with all of our special projects really make our lives as coaches much easier, and brings a whole higher level of community to our team. If you have not volunteered yet - please chose one of the activities above and reach out - I promise it will be fun for you and great for the whole team!

2008 Moorestown Cross Country Weekly Update