Would he have been teaching when he ran in the Olympics?
Actually, the article says in more than 30 years but they cut that out of the headline
Not sure if posted already. Fuck it. A life well lived.
3 Likes
Nadia Power is flying. New 800m Irish record this evening.
4 Likes
Tell her to try running
In the new shoes it’s more like flying. There’ll be a hape of world records if Olympics go ahead.
1 Like
New indoor 800m Irish record 1:46:10 from Mark English. Lad who was second ran a six second PB 
That’s Cian McPhilips, you’ll remember he won a big junior race at the Millrose games last year, only 18, looks like a star on the making
2 Likes
Some running.
The new shoes are like the old full swimsuits. They’re running faster and faster with them
Nike have a sprinter spike that has not been released yet that is next level.
Extraordinary
*The performance also punctuated one of the most exceptional periods in the history of Irish womens’ Indoor 800 metre running. *
In the last five days five different Irish athletes have posted the five fastest runs in the history of the indoor event in Ireland.
As an aside - in some of the middle distance events 3 times as many as normal athletes have reached qualifying times for Euro indoors.
1 Like
Is there any way its drugs rather than runners?
It’s most likely the new shoes they are using. They make a big difference at that level. Even allow athletes to train differently.
1 Like
Did I hear it correct that he ran the 8th fastest junior time ever ?
In setting a National Junior and Under-23 record, the 18-year-old Moyne Community School student in Longford also became the second fastest Under-20 performer in the Indoor 800 metres in European Athletics history and the quickest on the continent’s record books in over 20 years.
His time also represented the fastest junior indoor 800 metres in the world in five years and the sixth quickest by an Under-20 athlete in the world in the history of the sport.
2 Likes
Have Irish athletes gotten hold of the new runners ahead of other countries?
No. They are used everywhere. As I said the number of athletes (not just Irish athletes) running qualifying times for European indoors is unusually high.
Irish athletics is also seeing benefits of last number of years focus on coaching and coaching coaches. For some reason our younger female athletes in particular have been really doing well.
The sudden jump and sometimes dramatic improvement in times has a lot to do with the shoes.
Proof that collective training is a cod. Running around your garden is the key.
My mate stuey got some of the carbon ones, Nike ones, which cost about £160. He says they make a big difference.
There’ll be heaps of cheap previously high end trainers about soon as noone will run in “ordinary” shoes anymore.
1 Like
Ireland has four ladies in the worlds top 20 for the 800ms indoors at present. H’onrale!
Prevalent tfk posters sisters well able to bound out the door