On a cool, overcast Saturday morning, I decided to go back to Sand Dune Park and do another workout. I left the weighted vest at home, skipped on the push-ups at the top and the bottom of the hill and brought Val so she could join in the fun.

There were quite a few people there, much like last week and some people added to the difficulty of the climb by walking up and down…backwards. Another pair of athletes did lunges. Still another pair did sprints to the third cone. I did some sprints behind these guys knowing I could never catch them put it gave me something to focus on. but the most unusual was a couple who did bear crawls from the bottom to the top. I gotta try that next time. Looked challenging! Instead, here is what I did:

Walked up the hill and ran down 3x, full recovery between sets
sprinted to the third cone 5x. I don’t know the distance (not far) and each took about 28 seconds of sand churning fast feet. The key is fast leg turnover. My total time was 38 minutes for the Good Times.

Val did 3 laps up and took the stairs down. This was after her 7 mile run earlier and before her Sunday long run. Her comment at the top of the first climb was that “this hill kicks ass”. Well put.

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