Just some days after breaking the world M55+ 3,000m file in a shocking time of eight minutes and 47 seconds, Dublin’s Shane Healy broke one more world file on the weekend on the Irish Masters Indoor Championships on Saturday.
Healy ran 2:02.46 for 800m indoors to interrupt the M55+ world file, making it his second world masters file in seven days. His time shattered the earlier world indoor mark by three seconds and is half a second quicker than the outside mark for his age class, set by Germany’s Peter Oberliessen at age 56 in 2016.
Curiously sufficient, the three,000m world file he broke final week was additionally held by a German masters runner.
As a substitute of competing in his age group on the Irish champs, Healy challenged himself and ran towards the M35+ class, the place he positioned second total. The race was received in 2:01.45, and Healy powered his technique to an excellent break up after passing by 400m in 61 seconds. His second-place time within the 800m was additionally quicker than the M40, M45, and M50 winners.
The precise M55 Irish title was received in a good 2:16.34, however virtually 14 seconds slower than Healy’s time. He additionally devoted his new file to his former Irish Olympic teammate David Matthews, who misplaced his father over the Christmas holidays.
The 55-year-old middle-distance runner has been tearing up the monitor for a number of many years. In 1996, Healy represented Eire on the Atlanta Olympics within the males’s 1,500m, the place he made the semi-final. He retired from working in 1999, however after virtually a five-year hiatus, he returned to the game and started breaking Irish and world masters information.
Healy has added three world information to his identify within the final 12 months: M55+ 3,000m, 800m, and the M50+ indoor 1,500m file of 4:01.76. It is just a matter of time till he grabs the M55+ 1,500m indoor file of 4:11.79.