The middle distance meet at Mary Peters on Wednesday featuring BMC 800m races did exactly what it was meant to do and resulted in a mass of pbs for athletes of all ages and standards across the six races. North Down athletes all benefitted with an outdoor pb for Lauren Scott (2:21.8) and outright pbs from Nicola Simpson (2:22.7), Mark Patterson (1:55.5), Niall Robinson (1:56.8), Michael Patterson (2.04.7), Thomas Simpson (2:16.7), Peter Eves (2:33.6) and Tim Lennon (2:35.0).
The only disappointment was the failure of the electronic timing due to computer crashes but encouragement came from the number of good Juniors currently active while inspiration came from Mark Kirk pacing three successive races.