Deleted Notes & Queries response: Is running up and down a hill better for you than running on the flat?
Below is a response to a question that appeared on the Notes & Queries page of The Guardian website on the 31st July 2022 The comment has since been deleted from the website. This blog is obviously not affiliated with The Guardian. Its reference to a question that appeared in Notes & Queries is presented under the terms of fair use. Is running up and down a hill better for you than running on the flat? image generated by Craiyon You may have visited those northernmost fringes of Scotland that scatter like biscuit crumbs across the page of an atlas; where, under the aloof gaze of a cartographer, the North Sea fuses seamlessly with the Atlantic Ocean. Whilst there, you may have unknowingly laid eyes upon Michael Fairbairn as he hobbled through the winding, flat-cobbled streets of Greencliff, leaning on a cane for support like a man two-times his age. You would have caught him on his weekly round trip to and from the small supermarket with its ageing fleet of 15 trolleys, that we...