Cragg ponders next move after record run

NEW Irish 3000m indoor record holder Alistair Cragg was last night pondering his next move in this Olympic season following a remarkable run in the US at the weekend.

Cragg is three years into a University of Arkansas track scholarship under Mayo-born head coach John McDonnell and on Saturday ran 7:38.59 at the prestigious Tyson Foods Invitational meet in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to set his second Irish indoor track record.

Already the 5000m Irish indoor record holder, Johannesburg-born Cragg broke Frank O'Mara's national mark of 7.41.14, set in Seville on March 10, 1991 and regained his US collegiate men's record for the 3000m, having seen Michigan's Nick Miller run 7:44.90 in Boston last month.