Career balancing act working just fine for Mark English 

English has been a full-time athlete for the past two months and the difference seems noticeable.

BALANCING ACT: Mark English of Ireland. Photo by Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

Medicine might not seem the ideal career choice for an elite athlete, but Mark English is finding a way to make it work. It remains a delicate balancing act, with the Donegal athlete squeezing his training around the medical scheme he’s been doing in the west of Ireland for the past year.

First he was in Mayo, then Galway, then Roscommon, flying around the wards by day, racing around the track by night – or sometimes the other way around.