Dear HCXC runners

Dear HCXC runners, October, 2017

We are nearing the end of our season and it has been a good one. We started with a win at Orchard View for our girls - a first in our school history. Boys also started the year strong and over the season dropped minutes off their PR’s. Coaches have the amazing responsibility of leading you through a season of training (rigorous and sometimes not so) that will eventually bring you to your personal best (or peak) at just the right time. We also have the awesome privilege of walking along side you through those victories, defeats, injuries, bad days, heartache and laughter. This is a journey for sure. But we don’t want you to remember only the workouts, runs and races. We want you to remember the bus rides, waiting for your race, ice baths, Laketown, Peachwave, laughter, ice cloths a lot this year, talks on your runs, bonus 5, uniform malfunction…the ordinary, everyday.

Boys and Girls are both good teams this year. We push each other to be better by challenging each other. And we are good because we care.  Care about running and doing well and care about each other. We know you care because you have all shown up and worked hard for us this year and it reflects in your races and times. We are good because XC is more to you than running. It is doing our best for ourselves, our team and most important, for our God.

We are a team and together we will run confidently, putting any fears or negative thought we have to death and focusing only on the positive and giving our absolute everything. All of us will be at conference, but we hope you will come with us to Regionals and State even if you don’t run. You are part of this team and still have an important role to play in getting our team as far as it can go. Plus, we love your company.

Thank you for all your effort this year. We are blessed to be part of this wonderfully hilarious team.

Your coaches.

Blauw, DeKruyter, Melissa and Deb