On travel out to Virginia Beach this week and I am taking advantage of the location to start some sand training. Been out for the last three days on the beach here in the soft sand for about five miles at a crack. Definitely a calf workout even for a mountain runner! You readily fall into a slightly different form and pace that optimizes speed/effort. While there are some washes and arroyos around Los Alaoms that can provide similar training, I am going to have to put on the list a trip or two to The Great Sand Dunes National Park close by in southern Colorado and/or White Sands National Monument down south for some real sand DUNE workouts. Most likely I will try these with a full gear load out especially gaiters.
Now if I could only find a bucket of Corona's and a lime...
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