Greetings!



Thank you all for being so flexible with the heat last week! This week will be much cooler! The time trial was so awesome and the athletes did great. You can see the results on our website on the cross country page! This is where you can see all the meets and results! Son't forget to read this entire Newsletter, especcially the Coaches Corner!!

We are so excited to start our competition phase of the season!

PARENT MEETING - We will have a quick parent meeting on Tuesday at 6:15 to make sure we are ready for the first meet!

Our first race on Saturday will be at Central Park on fields 9/10! We will have a tent set up, please look for the Storm flag! This race is a pre-season competition with the 17 other VYC teams, and we will have a 4K open community race that run with the Youth and Intermediate race if you would like to see how much you have improved too! Let go Coaches and Parents!

We will register all Storm athletes for all meets, so you do not need to do anything!! All parents or coaches that would like to do the 4K open race you can register at the tent Saturday morning or at the meet. The cost for the 4K race is $15.00 this a fundraiser race for our VYC Conference. There will be medals for the first 3 male and female athletes, and ribbons for the 4th-8th place runners. Please see below for the race schedule!

This is a great race for the beginning runners to get comfortable with racing and it is very exciting for them.

Parents can bring Umbrellas/ temts, chairs/ blankets /tarps to sit on. We all sit together in our team area!

Our Conference and our team is an all volunteer organization and we rely only on parents and volunteers to help conduct the meets. We will need volunteers to help give out tags and work the finish line this week. We also need a parents to bring Team tents to the meet!

Here is what we need this week:

Team Tents - I am looking for parents who can transport the tents and tarps to and from the meets. We need them by 7:00 am each week and we will end at about 11:00 most weeks. It works out well if we can get a Gremlin parent to bring them and a Youth parent to take them home and then swithch during the week.

Course set up -7:00 am - help set upo the starft and finish line area - 6 people

Tents - bring tents and set up finish line -6 people 

Races -Finish Line -help guide athletes in the finish line chute

Rabbits to lead the races( bike ok) Turtles parents to follow the last runners in each race ( parents will not be allowed to run on the course during the races with their children)

Clean up - 4 people, help clean up and load tents

Please sign up at practice on Tuesday at our meeting or email the job you are able to do to coachelaine@runstorm.org

You can see a information flyer and results on our website each week, Just click on the cross country link, or your can also see the results and information on the VYC website, vyc-xc.org.

All results will also be posted to

livetrackresults.com

At this meet girls and boys in the same age group will run together

Proper Practice and Meet Attire - All athletes should have on good running shoes, light shorts, and loose fitting tank or t-shirt, No midriff running tops or sports bra. Please be sure that shirts covers the torso's for girls, and boys should have on a shirt.

Athletes need to wear the full Storm uniform for all meets! Shorts must be plain black, NO soccer or basketball shorts.

Meet One Information - This week we start our competitive Season. This is a Pre-Season meet that is fun and good for all, especially new runners! For this week only we will run the boys and girls of the same age together. Although this is not an official meet it will prepare the athletes for the distance they will be racing. We will always register the athletes in all races, so you do not need to do anything, and all fees are included in your registration fee already. For this meet we also encourage, parents and coaches to sign up and run the 4K. the fee is $15.00, come test your fitness level and race with the athletes!! This is our only team fundraiser!

Volunteers- We will teach you how to help volunteer for the meets. Each week we will have a volunteer duty and will need about 10 parents to help us. We ask you to volunteer for at least one of the meets, it is fun and easy!!

This week's needs:

Course set up - 7:00 - 8:00 am - 6 people

Finish line help 8:30 -9:55 - 4 people

Clean up - 4 people

Race Schedule -

arrive by 7:30 am

7:45- Team meeting at the team tents

8:00 -Sub Gremlin and Gremlin warm up 2k - 8:30 race starts

8:15-Bantams warm up 3K-8:50 race starts

8:40- Juniors warm up -3K- 9:15 race starts

9:00 *youth and Intermediates,Adult warm up4K 9:35 race starts

Practice Schedule for August 31st -Sept 5th

Monday - 6:00 pm - 7:30pm - West Creek Park 24247 Village Circle. Dr. Valencia -

Tuesday - 6:00-7:15- Central Park 27150 Bouquet Can Rd. (meet near the stairs )-

Thursday - 6:00-7:15- Central Park 27150 Bouquet Can Rd. (meet near the stairs )

Saturday - 7:30 am -11:00 am Pre-Season Meet - Central Park- field 9/10

Coaches Corner

Boom Team!

You made it through the first 3 weeks!!! Now you are in a groove, now you are committed, and next week you’ll start to see running in a whole new way. Great job!

3 weeks down and 9 weeks to go!! So, LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

We just finished week 3 and yep, it’s always a doozy. All I can do at the beginning is encourage you to make it through, while not giving too much detail to make you quit…😊 Running is all about the journey, and you just proved why the journey is worth it! You’re met with a challenge, you face the challenge, and you kick right through the challenge!

All right, enough of what’s happened, now on to what’s coming.

Week 4 starts a new set of training as we shift to 2^nd gear to start picking up speed, getting you ready to race. Racing is one of the best rewards of running. You work so hard, you eat well, you endure… so you can race your best! This Saturday you will be entering the first race of the season. It’s only a pre-season meet so it doesn’t count towards standings, but it gives you the opportunity to experience the entire process. From pre-race nutrition to pre-race jitters, to last minute bathroom stops, to getting on the line and giving it your all! We’ll give some more direction this week but there are 2 things I want to share right now: don’t over think racing and get ready for some fun! When you over think anything, you make it complicated and you end up stressing out… when you stress out… you don’t enjoy it and then you can’t get ready for some fun…. So, let’s make the decision today to “get ready for some fun”, sounds good?

A new set of training means we will start to run workouts a little faster, we’ll add intervals of hill repeats and flat sections, and work on increasing pace. Imagine a piece of granite as the start of the season and by the last race, we’ve carved a perfect image of YOU! During the first 3 weeks we took chunks out of the granite so we can start to see where your head and arms and legs will soon start to appear. This next phase of 3 -6 weeks will see YOU appear. The final 3 weeks will fine tune every detail of YOU from eyes to fingernails, to what kind of shoe you are wearing. The last week is all about polishing the granite of YOU and getting you ready to shine. I hope that gives a little image to think about… or it just tells you how crazy my mind works… 😊

Either way, the season is gearing up so be ready! The time trial was great last Thursday as you got to see what it feels like to push hard. I hope all of you realized this: while you are running, it’s up to you how hard you want to push.  When you finish, it only takes a few minutes to regroup and be back to normal breathing. Since that is the case, my question to you is why wouldn’t you push as hard as you can during the race? You never want to finish the race and tell yourself or one of the coaches “I could have given more”. I’ve always coached my athletes to treat a race like you are going into battle. You are entering gladiator arena and if you don’t want to win, or beat your competition, they will want to beat you. So be ready, wherever you race in the pack, to beat your competition!

I’ll see you out there and I look forward to getting you ready for some fun! Let’s make a deal, you make sure you come out to practice ready for some fun, and I’ll make sure to bring the fun to you!

I can’t wait to see every one of you blow away your expectations by the end of the season!

See you Monday night!

Coach Jeremy

661-670-7249

Our Storm Store is now open if you would like to purchase spirit merchandise. We offer a variety of Storm items, like T-shirts, warmup, bags, and other merchandise for sell. All items will be delivered to practice about 3 weeks after ordered, All items are made to order and are non-refundable and non-exchangeable so please order carefully.

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Volunteers- We will teach you how to help volunteer for the meets. Each week we will have a volunteer duty and will need about 10 parents to help us. We ask you to volunteer for at least one of the meets, it is fun and easy!!

This week's needs:

Course set up - 7:00 - 8:00 am - 6 people

Tent set up -7:00 - 2 people

Finish line help 8:30 -9:55 - 4 people ( this can be spilt uo as need per race

Clean up - 4 people