So, time to pay the piper and do some serious hard work to shore up my swimming deficiency.
One problem I have is poor ankle flexibility. I am committed to ankle flexibility exercises in my program but I am worried that it could affect my running in a negative manner.
Does anyone have experience with increasing their ankle flexibility and how it affected their running? It is a win-win situation?
So, time to pay the piper and do some serious hard work to shore up my swimming deficiency.
One problem I have is poor ankle flexibility. I am committed to ankle flexibility exercises in my program but I am worried that it could affect my running in a negative manner.
Does anyone have experience with increasing their ankle flexibility and how it affected their running? It is a win-win situation?
I swam and ran through high school and first few years of college, and I didn’t notice any adverse impact from having flexible ankles.
N=1. 
Zoomers/fins will help increase flexibility, and I sit on my ankles for a while when stretching/watching tv, whatever.
John
Plantar flexion and dorsiflexion usually are inversely correlated. In fact, I forget where I saw it but some neuromuscular screen process actually measures your plantar flexion, how close your toes come to the ground when you lay down and extend them to rate your dorsiflexion.
If your toes come within 4 inches of the floor you need to work on dorsiflexion - according to them.
So I suppose there is a small risk that if you stretch your anterior tibialis for example your soleus will tighten up.
All that said, in the long list of things triathletes need to do, and even the long list of things swimmers need to do, I don’t think I have met anyone yet for whom a lack of plantar flexion was their problem. Not to say that it isn’t yours, but given the time restrictions we face, that would be pretty low on the list for me.
On the other hand as Devlin said you can just sit on your feet while you watch Family Guy and not waste any time.