BRENDAN O’BRIEN: Going the extra mile at altitude
It seemed at first to be a pathetic, embarrassing effort even with the dregs of a two-hour drive still to flush from the legs, but John Galvin’s knowing nod and comforting words from across the gym served as a soothing balm to a battered ego and a breathless body.
“I lasted more or less the same time when I did my first session,” said the Limerick midfielder as he swept gracefully, forward and back, on the rowing machine within the airtight environs of the Altitude Gym on Limerick’s Ballysimon Road.
