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Twenty times, they ran up a sand hill, a portion of it, from cone to cone, roughly 25 yards, and back down.
Twenty times, thousands of steps, climbing up, leaving mostly everyone on the University of New Mexico football team near the point of total exhaustion on Tuesday morning.
After the 20th rep, the Lobo players appeared completely drained. A few hunched over and vomited.
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And then, for one trip, they ran, jogged, walked, crawled all the way up the sand hill, some 150 yards to complete this rigorous workout that second-year UNM coach Danny Gonzales says builds mental strength.
When it’s the fourth quarter, the team that finishes stronger will win, he says. The Lobos want to be the toughest team in the Mountain West Conference, he says.