Irish masters runner Shane Healy could possibly be the quickest 55-year-old distance runner on the planet. On Jan. 6 at an indoor monitor meet in Dublin, Healy torched the M55+ 3,000m world file by 11 seconds, clocking a jaw-dropping eight minutes and 47 seconds.
Congratulations to Shane Healy (MSB AC) who this afternoon broke the Males’s O55 3000m World Report on the Nationwide League in NIA, Abbotstown 👏🏻
Healy clocked a time of 8.47.71 to take over ten seconds off the earlier file which stood at 8.58 🤩
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— Irish Runner (@IrishRunnerMag) January 6, 2024
Healy positioned sixth in his 3,000m warmth, beating a number of runners a 3rd of his age. His record-setting time surpassed the earlier indoor mark set by German runner Guenther Hasselmann 44 years in the past. Healy’s time was additionally faster than the three,000m outside file of 8:56.80, set by Australian Keith Bateman in 2010.
For a lot of distance runners, breaking 9 minutes for 3,000m is a major milestone, but Healy is doing it by a landslide at 55 years previous, which is mind-blowing. His world file time of 8:47.71 equates to a median tempo of two minutes and 56 seconds per kilometre and a pace of over 20.5 km/hr.
The 55-year-old middle-distance runner has been tearing up the monitor for a number of a long time. 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 nearly a five-year hiatus, he returned to the game and commenced breaking Irish and world masters information.
Final 12 months, at 54, the Irishman set the M50+ indoor 1,500m world file of 4:01.76. Healy turned 55 on Oct. 8, and we will think about he will likely be including the M55+ 1,500m indoor file of 4:11.79 to his spectacular resume this season.
