Today I ran in sand!  They added an extra workout zone to ASI on Patewood.  Usually, after doing a workout on all the speed flex equipment, we go outside and do some form of running.  Well, after a few weeks of construction, they turned the hillside around the facility into another workout zone.  A sandy one!  There looks to be a few different hills of various lengths that are covered in sand.   We went up what I believe to be the middle one today.  I was informed that there is a “big kid” hill on the other side.  Upon looking at it, it appears that nobody has run up that one yet….yet!  The hill is at about a 60 degree angle and the thick sand covers the area-about 20 yards in length.  We ran up that hill, then turned to the right on a flat sandy surface and ran to a cone (25-ish yards from where we came up the hill), then ran across the area to another cone that was placed 30-ish yards from the other.  We did this 5 times non-stop.  Quite the workout!  I’m sure my feet will be nice and smooth soon! 

It’s great when they change it up.  Just when your body seems to get into some sort of routine-you throw some sandy hills at it.  I’m looking forward to Thursday’s workout.  I’m bringing my Dora the explorer pail and shovel to make some sweet sand castles. 

PS-I tweet about my workouts from time to time…@chaseb937.