Today's workout hurt. I drove to the sand dunes about 30 minutes out of town to get a new workout, what I didn't plan on, however, was how difficult it would be. It may have been soreness from yesterday's run, or from my stomachache, but it hurt pretty badly. I did a one mile warmup on the highway, then ran 4 miles around the dunes. They were very hilly and my feet kept slipping due to loose sand, and that combined with the fact that I only had a one mile radius to run around made for a slow pace, but it hurt, which is good. I'll need to be sure to do this run again, as I've heard from multiple sources running up dunes builds leg muscles drastically for running up hills, which is really what I need to make my stremgth if I want to break 15:30 at sugar house and place top ten. After the four miles I ran a mile and a half down a pretty steep hill at an easy pace, and the. Turned around and ran back up it. It was about a 400 foot hill, but I still managed to keep up a 7:45 pace for the most part. I'll need to remember this as well for hill training. After I ran back up the hill I got lost for half a mile trying to find my truck, once I found it I ran a cool down mile and went home. I think I need to keep the next couple of days easier training-wise. This is the training I need to do every day to get my goals, but I haven't worked up to this level of intensity so I'm fairly wary of injury. After camp usa, however, this needs to be the quality and intensity of my daily training(at least). Surprisingly after an ice bath I haven't been all that sore, possibly because I've worn calf sleeves for both of my past two workouts. These past two days have definitely made my top ten hardest workouts. Can't wait to see what's on that list in ten months. Another recent goal I've developed in my brain is to qualify for the Adidas 2016 dream mile. Farfetched I know, but I'm willing to but everything on the grind for the next year until I get to that level of speed.
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