Cascade XC: Winter Training, Holiday Nutrition and Christmas Shopping.

"Don't eat fatty foods, keep it low on the treats", says Daniel, an 8th Grader at Sunrise Middle School. He may not have a Master's degree in nutrition, but he's absolutely right! There's our thought for the day - fend off those holiday well wishers that come loaded with plates of cookies and candies and pies...oh my! (couldn't resist, sorry) :-)

So I've scheduled a "brick" workout to kick off the day. For those of you that aren't familiar with triathlon jargon that means I'll be doing a bike THEN a run workout back to back. It helps the legs get used to that transition so that next summer during tri's I won't feel like I'm running on tree stumps.

After the workout I've got the last of my Christmas shopping to do. Heaven help the procrastinator who has to go to the mall 4 days before Christmas....giddyup!

Happy running,
Coach Howard

Cascade XC at the NAIA XC Championships...Oh Yes!

I was online yesterday and had a chance to lookup some Youtube videos of the NAIA XC Championships this past year. As I watched the videos I just got incredibly excited about taking our team out there in the coming years. I love the process of building something and we've got some great pieces already in place here at Cascade. Can we get there...oh yes!