Phil Healy got the 2018 sprint and hurdle season off to a flyer with a IAAF World Indoor standard in Athlone last weekend. 53.15 is bang on the standard, is an outright PB (indoors and outdoors), is #2 on the Irish indoor All-Time list and #7 on the outright (indoor and outdoor) list. It's also just a start. Still justified in celebrating somewhat as we may not have too many other Irish athletes claim qualifying standards for Birmingham in March. As always, getting to this stage is complex with many ups and downs, tweaks, loops on thought process and trial and error. Coach Shane McCormack had organised a Cold Weather Training Camp in Curracloe back in November with a resilience session from a group of Irish Army Rangers in the Basecamp East group part of the weekend. After an exhausting day on the dunes and in the sea, the groups assembled in the nearby forest to get warm, light fires and cook fish. The fire lighting wasn't too successful but after several false starts...