Colin Griffin.

Colin Griffin has over 15 years experience in high performance sport having represented Ireland at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games in the 50km walk which he holds the Irish record of 3.51. He has also coached other Irish athletes to Olympic level.In 2011 he founded The Altitude Centre Ireland and pioneered the development of Irelands first residential altitude training centre at the University of Limerick. Colin is undertaking a PhD on the biomechanics of muscle-tendon interaction at the achilles during exercise and gives great tips here on avoiding and helping such an injury.He's continuing to race as a masters athlete at 040, recently running a 1.11 half-marathon as a build up to The Dublin Marathon.If you like the podcast, download it for my stats and please share the episodes with as many people as you can to help it to grow even more. Thanks so much for coming on this journey of discovery and promotion for our amazing masters' athletes.The podcast has a large monthly worldwide reach and is now open to advertisements at the beginning episodes for races, relevant and suitable products, all for a reasonable fee or any offers for listeners as a promo.Contact: [email protected]'s Strava: https://strava.app.link/YrgNp7oON4b Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.