Thank you for joining Potomac Valley Track Club's Young Flyers youth track & field program!

Our next session is Sunday, November 19, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM at Thomas Jefferson Community Center, 3501 2nd Street South, Arlington VA 22204.

TJ is one block south of Arlington Boulevard (Route 50) and one block east of Glebe Road (Route 120). Parking is ample and free. Enter thru the main entrance, Door #12, next to the playground.

Directions: Arlington Blvd. (US 50), south on Irving Street (1/4 mile east of Glebe Road), west on 2nd Street South, entrance on right thru Door #12

Each week, I send you a message about the program on the upcoming Sunday.

Please tell your friends who have young athletes that we welcome new participants. They can sign up on-line or on paper on any Sunday afternoon. See www.pvtc.org/youth for full information.

We thank our dedicated coaches: Jim Darr, Anders Halvorsen, Desta Beriso Morkama, Betsy Peace, Feru Dadi Wake, Jim Wass, Jay Jacob Wind, and joining us this week is Darryl Wegner.

Here is our daily schedule:

o 2:40-2:45 PM: Administrators and parent volunteers arrive to set up check-in -- please help us unload the coach's van outside Door #12

o 2:45-2:55 PM: Athletes and parents arrive, enter thru Door #12, and pick up your name tag in the lobby outside the gym

o 3:00-3:20 PM: Introductions, circle time - stretching and strengthening exercises and my prepared lecture on Physiology, Flexibility, and Competitve Theory

o 3:20-4:00 PM: Break into groups:

oo Sprint (50 / 100 meters) for athletes in K, 1st, or 2nd grade, or older athletes who specialize in the sprint distances

oo Middle distance (200 / 400 meters) for athletes in 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade

oo Long distance (800 meters, one mile) for athletes in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade, or younger athletes who specialize in the long distances (for example, they have run 5Ks)

oo Race Walk for all ages

o 4:00-4:30 PM: Re-group for water and break into groups:

oo Hurdles

oo Short Distance / Sprint

oo Long distance

oo Race walk

oo Shot put, turbo-javelin, Frisbee disc practice

o 4:30-4:55 PM: Regroup into four-person 4x200 meter relay teams

o 4:55-5:00 PM: Regroup to enjoy post-workout refreshments

Each week, families brings post-workout refreshments, for example, 50 juice boxes, 50 pieces of fruit, 50 energy bars. We have plenty of bottled water from last week.

Trader Joe's, 1109 North Highland Street, Arlington VA, sponsored our first practice, and we recommend shopping at your neighborhood Trader Joe's.

For our workout on November 19, our refreshments are thanks to this family:

o  Anders Halvorsen, our throws coach and parent of Adam and Ava Halvorsen


Athletes:
o Sunday will be chilly but sunny. Please wear a warm shirt, jacket, and gloves so we can go outdoors if not too cold

o For indoor track, please wear light clothing and running shoes (not spikes, not court shoes or street shoes)

o On nice days, we run some of the time outdoors, so prepare for the weather -- jacket, hat, gloves, sunglasses, sunscreen if you're sensitive

o Please bring a filled water bottle with your name written on it.


This Sunday, I shall talk about

o The progression from young athlete to high school to college to national championships to International Competition to the Olympic Games


At all our workouts, we welcome parents to run with their young athletes. Think of it as Suzuki running!

On a personal note, Coach Desta and I run or volunteer at races every weekend. 
This weekend, on Saturday, I run Potomac Valley Track Club's Cranberry Crawl.  
How approprate -- I'm crawling back to running after three recent marathons!
Coach Desta volunteered.

We look forward to coaching your young athletes this season. Welcome aboard!

BTW, every Sunday, we promote membership in Potomac Valley Track Club -- see www.pvtc.org/join -- or take a membership flyer. It's a club for All Ages, All Paces, All Ways.

Next year, PVTC conducts 2018 USATF Masters Indoor Track & Field Championships in Landover MD on March 16-18, 2018. We invite you to run for our team!
See www.pvtc.org/2018nationals


-- Thank you 
-- Jay Jacob Wind, secretary 
-- Potomac Valley Track Club 
-- www.pvtc.org/youth 
-- 703-927-4833