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Mark English. Photo: Sportsfile
Mark English set a new Irish indoor 600m record in Dublin on Wednesday night.
The Finn Valley AC athlete clocked 1:15.80 at the Track and Field Live meet held at the National Indoor Area in Abbotstown.
English shaved almost a second off the 1:16.64 he ran in Boston two years ago in the process.
Next week, English will go over his specialised 800m in Lyon with the World Indoor Championships in Poland in March a target.
Following a period at altitude training in the Sierra Nevada mountains, English returned home and won the St Stephen’s Day 5k at Finn Valley.
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Last summer, English lowered his own Irish 800m outdoor record three times, going down to 1:43.37 before Cian McPhillips went to 1:42.15 on his way to finishing fourth at the World Championships in Tokyo.
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