Richard Buck made another advance at the Norwich Union Grand Prix at Birmingham on even though he did not win.
In a top class 400m field, Buck, the UK Indoor champion, took another chunk off his indoor best when he ran 46.34 behind Canada's Tyler Christopher and Chris Lloyd from the Dominican Republic.
Christopher is a world outdoor medallist but was racin
g indoors for the first time and set a Canadian record with 45.80. Lloyd, a world indoor winner, clocked 46.02 so Buck was in good company when setting his fourth personal best of the indoor season.
Jessica Ennis had a useful workout in the 60m hurdles running 8.24 before travelling to Sheffield for yesterday's Inter City Indoor Challenge.
There she helped Team Sheffield to their third successive victory finishing comfortably clear of London (North) and London (South).
Ennis finished second in the long jump with 6.14m behind Scottish international Gillian Cooke and she was also runner up in the 60 metres sprint, clocking 7.5.
To complete a good workout Ennis also competed as a guest in the shot.
John Kelley had a good 400m win for Sheffield in 48 seconds flat and there was a 1500m double for the Sheffield squad through Bruce Raeside (3:51.66) and Catherine Riley in the women's race (4:25.54).
Winner of the pole vault was Sheffield's Luke Cutts and he won the man-of-the-match award for his 5.30 effort.
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