You can pick up a reminder about the dead period for cross country and track & field that occurs on November 24, the day of the Division I Cross Country Championships.
"That's been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains."
--Steve Jobs, 1998