running on sand dunes

Running on sand dunes and daring to enjoy the natural beauty of your
surroundings makes you a feat accomplisher. I'm so intense I was
drinking red wine the night before I was born. Ah..... let me rethink
that.

rick++ said:

Running on sand dunes is an interesting experience.
I was in Death Valley earlier this month and decided to give
them a try. I was aiming for the central peak about 600 feet high,
but then didnt want to interfere with the sunrise photogaphers.
Running on them was a lot a work. Some parts were soft and
i'd sink in the sand. Plus lots of up and down through the dunes.
I guess if a practiced a week or two, I'd develop a good technique.
The beauty of surroundings was intoxicating.

Or it was that heroin/cocaine cocktail.

"rick++" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

Running on sand dunes is an interesting experience.
I was in Death Valley earlier this month and decided to give
them a try. I was aiming for the central peak about 600 feet high,
but then didnt want to interfere with the sunrise photogaphers.
Running on them was a lot a work. Some parts were soft and
i'd sink in the sand.

There's a Sand Dune Park in Manhattan beach, with a good 80' dune climbing
up at a steep angle. We used to do the dreaded "10 times Dune" workout
there.

There's no way to do it without screaming quads!

Dan Stumpus said:

"rick++" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

Running on sand dunes is an interesting experience.
I was in Death Valley earlier this month and decided to give
them a try. I was aiming for the central peak about 600 feet high,
but then didnt want to interfere with the sunrise photogaphers.
Running on them was a lot a work. Some parts were soft and
i'd sink in the sand.

There's a Sand Dune Park in Manhattan beach, with a good 80' dune
climbing up at a steep angle. We used to do the dreaded "10 times
Dune" workout there.

There's no way to do it without screaming quads!

Quads? I find that when going hard uphills it's my calfs that are
screaming. Coming down hammers my quads unless it's a soft landing like
sand in which case I would have thought it would be relatively quad sparing.

Tim

Tim Downie said:

Dan Stumpus said:

"rick++" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

Running on sand dunes is an interesting experience.
I was in Death Valley earlier this month and decided to give
them a try. I was aiming for the central peak about 600 feet high,
but then didnt want to interfere with the sunrise photogaphers.
Running on them was a lot a work. Some parts were soft and
i'd sink in the sand.

There's a Sand Dune Park in Manhattan beach, with a good 80' dune
climbing up at a steep angle. We used to do the dreaded "10 times
Dune" workout there.

There's no way to do it without screaming quads!

Quads? I find that when going hard uphills it's my calfs that are
screaming. Coming down hammers my quads unless it's a soft landing like
sand in which case I would have thought it would be relatively quad sparing.

Tim

I meant screaming CALFS. The mother cows get real [censored] when you hump
their babys.

Tim

Quoted message said:

rick++ said:

Running on sand dunes is an interesting experience.
I was in Death Valley earlier this month and decided to give
them a try. I was aiming for the central peak about 600 feet high,
but then didnt want to interfere with the sunrise photogaphers.
Running on them was a lot a work. Some parts were soft and
i'd sink in the sand. Plus lots of up and down through the dunes.
I guess if a practiced a week or two, I'd develop a good technique.
The beauty of surroundings was intoxicating.

Or it was that heroin/cocaine cocktail.

Congrats, you made my kill file

Yeah, definitely practice more. It will cut into your posting time.

I ran on sand dunes whilst training in South Africa it was a wonderful
training environment but it is definately a good quad work out!

Beach Runner said:

Congrats, you made my kill file

Good luck on that.

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Beach Runner said:

Congrats, you made my kill file

Good luck on that.

He obviously knows not with whom he deals.