nearly time
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What an event!
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He’s actually right. I’m in A tri club this past 14 years. I haven’t run for a decade with them. Swimming and cycling only.
Cheers
No worries pal.
Recent studies say cycling has similar impacts to walking. Can’t go wrong.
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During my 5k this morning, I felt a sharp pain just below the calf but above the ankle. It receded after a while and is now more uncomfortable than painful.
Can you offer a diagnosis and a remedy please ?
Thanks in advance
Ankle mobility might be an issue.
What is your general lifestyle?
What do you do vriefly from wake up to bedtime?
Ah don’t worry about it. Cheers anyway.
I’ve lashed a load of Tiger Balm on it and hoping for the best
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Smashed a load of hill sprints tonight -
3 x 10 up a slope about 15 yards at about 40% gradient going by this chart
I did 5 burpess after each sprint for the second set, and I did the third set carrying a rock that was about 10-12kg in weight - about a 15/20 second break between each sprint
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Mount Oval is ideal for that.
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It’s a dose when your coming back from a long spin/jog. Clarkes Hill 
Thats a good way to build endurance though I’vd never heard of Clarkes hill, where’s that mate?
God be with the days that a lad would run for an hour or two and then go home when he got tired.
Ffs fools and their money, fellas convinced that they can’t run without some witch doctor telling them how to do it.
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What? - I used a hill and a random rock around the corner from my house unaided and for free, you gimpy bastard… Why would I run straight for an hour or two when I wanted to do sprints? It builds muscle, strength, endurance and a host of other benefits… Just because you inbred Tipp mutants are still doing laps as training sessions that doesnt mean the rest of us are living in the third world. In short, you’re a stupid bastard. The end.
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Head out from Douglas to Rochestown, under the flyover, through the roundabout then next right, Clarkes Hill. If you were to head down further, half mile or so the right after that, Coach Hill, another nice climb there. Both will bring you to that bastion of Protestism, Garyduff 
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That’s a quality workout but you may be overestimating the gradient a tad. For example, Mangerton Mountain which has a highest elevation of 800m is at a gradient of 18% at its steep. Then again, perhaps it’s more gradual than a short road hill. That chart is an interesting way of calculating but I’d imagine there’s a Strava segment for that hill which would give a more accurate figure
Exactly, he’d want a step ladder to do a 40% gradient
Oooft
Yeah that’s why I said going by that chart to show what I was roughly dealing with visually as opposed to me just pulling a figure out of my arse … I’m running up a bank which is quite steep.