Team Awards Night

 Hey Team!  6:00 PM, Wednesday, 11/20 in Reeder Hall

I'm typing this as I'm eating my breakfast getting ready for the section meet.  I know it seems soon, and that we'll likely have athletes still competing, but we're going to do our awards night next Wednesday in Reeder Hall because Thanksgiving break is the following week and after that, many of us will be going full speed in winter sports. 

Our tradition is to do a pot luck dinner along with our awards night AND to return uniforms, for athletes that have finished their seasons.  So, please come to the awards night with your cleaned, complete uniform and the following Food Item (Enough to feed 4-6 people)

Freshmen: Main Dish

Sophomores: Side Dish, Salad of some sort

Juniors: Desserts

Seniors: Drinks (a gallon or 2 two liters). 

Great season so far.....but we're not done yet!  Let's get on the bus and punch our tickets to STATE!

Supercross Sign Ups

It's that time of year again!

Our 18th Annual Hughson supercross is just over 2 weeks away.  Once again, the meet should be large, loud and fun.  We currently have 44 high schools, 4 middle schools, and 3 clubs signed up.  Putting on an event of this size takes a lot of help.

This is where I reach out to you one more time this year. 😇

I'm including a link to SIGN UP GENIUS  that I created for the meet.  If you have questions about what the different jobs entail, please reach out via the remind or email me at jbernard@hughsonschools.org.

To get you psyched, here's a video I had made a few years ago. 

It's The Little Things

When all of your competitors are training hard already and everyone is already eating the right food, what can you do to set yourself apart and gain an advantage?

Last week, on our trip to Woodbridge, our kids got a very good idea of what elite teams look like.  On the way home, the boys van had a discussion about what easy changes they can make in their daily lives in order to have the best chance of reaching their full potential this season.  I encouraged them to agree on 3 changes they could make that were: 1. pain free and 2. effective.  Here's what the boys came up with.

1. Get a minimum of 8-9 hours of sleep per night. Surprisingly, of all the ideas we talked about in the van, this is the one that got the most resistence, however, of all the ideas we talked about, this is the one that is most likely to allow us to jump to the next level.  Your body recovers and gets stronger when you're sleeping.  If you don't sleep enough, you don't recover enough.  If you don't recover enough, you can't train hard enough to actually be the best you can be.  Students think it's tough to sleep that much, but they don't realize how much time they waste, especially on games and social media.  My son was top 10 in a graduating class of over 500 students, he was the captain of the water polo team, he was the leading scorer in the CCAL his senior year, and he won multiple CCAL swim titles.  He had a girlfriend and a rich social life and he slept at least 9 hours a night.  If Sean could time manage well enough to do that, so can our kids.
2. Take a multivitamin every morning with breakfast.  Many of our kids already eat well, but not everyone does.  Nor does every kid have control over what foods get served at home.  Our athletes felt like it was a good idea to make sure that they were going to get enough vitamins and minerals, and taking a vitamin is a pretty easy way to do it.  It is important that these multi vitamins contain iron.  One nasty little fact about our sport is that runners tend to get iron deficient more than other athletes.  Our red blood cells tend to get crushed as they pass through the blood vessels of our feet as we pound out all of the miles we do.  Making sure we have enough iron to keep our Red Blood Cell level up is very important.....and easy to do. 
3. Rope Stretch and Foam Roll after every run.  This easy step will allow our kids to begin their recovery sooner and recover better.  

There's one last thing!

This week is going to be very hot.  It's disappointing!  I'm ready for our kids to have a break and be able to increase their training.  The heat this week is going to prevent that, to some extent.  So, For groups 1, 2, and 3, I'm suggesting short morning workouts on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  We'll talk more about this at practice, but in short, due to the heat, I'm keeping our afternoon workouts pretty limited this week.  The kids that need more mileage will need to get it in the mornings.  

Woodbridge - Depart Thursday

 Hey Team.  Quick Update and Ideas to Pack

We're going to run from school before loading the vans on Thursday.  I'll have breakfast type foods for you guys to eat before we get in the van.  If you need to shower, I can make the locker rooms available.  We'll meet at 7:00 AM, run, eat, pack, and GO.  You'll want some sort of healthy snack to eat on the way down.  

2018 Team on the way to Woodbridge

We WON'T be stopping for lunch at a restaurant on the way down.  We've got a ton of bread and sandwich meat left over from Friday in my freezer at home.  We'll pull off at a rest stop and make our own lunch and save some cash.  

Items that you should bring.

• Racing uniform - Duh
• Running shoes, racing shoes, socks.
• Hughson gear - t shirts and what not.  Gotta show off who we are, ya know.  
• A couple pairs of running shorts and shirts.  We'll be doing a couple of training runs while we're down there. 
• Cash for a big breakfast on race morning and for a meal stop on the way home (we'll feed you the rest of the time.
• Toothbrush, toothpaste, shampoo, etc....
• Bring a towel to be safe.  There might not be enough at the houses.  

The houses I rented have almost enough beds for everyone.  One or two of you may need to bring a sleeping bag (Freshmen and sophomores)

If you have any other questions, double check the inventory I sent out to your school emails last week.  

Homecoming Parade and Game

 Hey Team.  We need to be on Whitmore at 2:00 for the Homecoming Parade.  I will have bags of candy for us to hand out to the kids along the route.  

If you are working the snack bar or selling raffle tickets, I will leave your names at the gate so that you can get in.  Here's who I have so far.  

Snack Bar, Early Shift - 4:30 to 7:00

Pat Kennedy

Lupe Prez

Linda Benham

Jeff Benham

Brad Bilson

Andrea Bilson

Paul Stites

Alice Conners

Brooke Wetenkamp

Jared Wetenkamp

Snack Bar, Late Shift - 7:00 to 9:30

Lilia Franco

Lupe Prez

Jenny Olsen

Kristen Combs

Lori Crim

Paul Stites

Jungmee Kim

Tony Aguiar

Paula Aguiar

Raffle Ticket Sales - Early 5:00 - 7:00

Sandro

Bobby

Rick

Adrian

Mason

Ryan

Jason

Raffle Ticket Sales - Late 7:00 - Halftime of varsity game

Mason

Bailey

Tucker

Maci

Sophie

TVL Opener - 9/4/2024

 What a Great Meet!

The Huskies went into the two varsity races at the TVL opener knowing that it was going to be a tough test of our fitness.  On the girls side, we knew we'd be pushed by Hilmar and on the boys side we knew Ripon was going to be very good.  When all was said and done, we'd come out with two hard earned victories.

On the varsity girls side, Sophie Benham ran only her 3rd cross country race in the last 2 years and won over a very tough Sidney Logsdon of Hilmar, leading the all of the Lady Husky runners to finish in the top 50% of the field.  After one meet, the TVL standings for Varsity girls are as follows.

1st place - Hughson

2nd place - Hilmar

3rd place - Ripon

4th place - Ripon Christian

5th place - Escalon

6th place - Sonora

7th place - Orestimba

Benham and Logsdon battle on a 105 degree day

On the varsity boys side, senior Bobby Nieto led a fast improving pack of underclassmen to outdistance Ripon by a score of 51-60.  As the season progresses and our young team gains experience we expect to only get better.  For the boys team, bringing our 5th scorer closer to our top runner will be of paramount importance.  We had a gap of 1:28 yesterday from our first to our 5th, but for teams like ours, a gap of under 60 seconds will probably be required by the end of the season.  #teamgoals

After the first meet, the TVL standings for varsity boys are as follows.

1st Place - Hughson

2nd Place - Ripon

3rd Place - Sonora

4th Place - Ripon Christian

5th Place - Orestimba

6th Place - Hilmar

7th Place - Escalon

Bobby moves up through the pack after falling early

Both JV teams placed 2nd on the day.  The girls were led by Allison Landeverde.  Allison, running in her first ever cross country race, placed 3rd out of 39 runners.  The boys were led by sophomore, Ty Swain, who also placed 3rd overall in his race

Allison running strong

After one meet, the TVL JV Girls Standings are as follow

1st place - Ripon

2nd place - Hughson

3rd place - Hilmar

4th place - Escalon

5th place - Orestimba

6th place - Ripon Christian

7th place - Sonora

Ty leads the JV race early on

After one meet, the TVL JV Boys standings are as follow

1st place - Ripon

2nd place - Hughson

3rd place - Escalon

4th place - Ripon Christian

5th place - Orestimba

6th place - Sonora

7th place - Hilmar

Week 15 Workouts

 Cut Back Week!

The first 4 days of the week will be pretty low volume.  Once we get to our day off from school on Friday, we start our building cycle for the next few races.  

Here's the week's sessions

Summary:

• Monday, if you can't make practice, do a short to medium distance progression run.  Finish pretty fast, but still comfortable on the last mile.  Otherwise come to practice at 8:00 AM
• Tue: Super short plus weights (can't neglect these bad boys)
• Wed: Meet
• Thu: No run (or morning shake out) PM, weights. 
• Fri: No school, medium long run
• Sat: Long run with tempo in second half.  Go hard, but don't over cook it.  
• Sun: off or very easy.