Training Log Archive: Joshosh

Home late after a long bus journey was raining heavy and very windy but had to do something to keep the training graph looking good this year, felt better after it

run, stretch, plyometrics, strides, run

What a glorious mud bath, had the 12mm spikes on and was glad of it. After the 12 earlier races the course was shredded and really mucky which suited me. Planned to follow kieran(captain) but saw a gap and went with it, stuck with shane for all the race except the last 600 where i kicked. Going in to this race i knew i would have to work to just get in as a 6th scorer with the talent that we have, so getting in a 3rd scorer and best irish athlete in the college was brilliant. Hard work is paying off now.

2012 XC Waterford:
1) John Coghlan DCU 28:46.00
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28) Barry O'Donovan (OYD) UCC 30:43.00 (106%)
40) Michael Maher (OYD) UCC 31:34.00 (109%)
46) Kieran James UCC 32:08.00 (111%)
55) Eric Curran UCC 32:45.00 (113%)
66) Josh O'Sullivan Hourihan UCC 33:50.00 (117%)
70) Michael Cassidy UCC 34:28.00 (119%)
73) George Boyle UCC 34:40.00 (120%)
81) Tim Clarke UCC 35:11.00 (122%)
88) Bill Twomey UCC 35:58.00 (125%)
111) John Foley UCC 39:25.00 (137%)

Team was 7th overall with 305points (DCU won with 62)

2013 XC Jordanstown (UUJ)

1) Jason Fahy (OYD) WIT 27:44:00 (100%)
2) John Travers AIT 28:03:00 (101%)
3) Chris Johnston UCD 28:19:00 (102%)
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8) Ben Thistlewood UCC 29:07 (104%) (runs a 14:40 5km)
17) Alex Johann UCC 29:40 (106%) (runs a 31min 10km)
21) Josh O'S-Hourihan 29:53 (107%)
27) Shane Maher 30:08 (108%) (runs invitational races in Paris)
30) Swiad Worms 30:21 (109%) (Triathlete from Germany)
31) Kieran James 30:22 (109%) (former U23 county XC champ)
34) Eric Curran 30:47 (110%) (County Novice XC champ and 6th in senior)
43) Chris Mintern 31:06 (112%) (Irish Triathlete)
56) Michael Cassidy 32:39 (117%) (has run sub 28 5miler)
58) Eoin Casey 32:41 (117%) (2.02 for 800m indoors)

Team placed 3rd with 134 points, and the women placed second in their team race. It was the first time in 15years the college has placed teams in both classes. And College placed 2nd overall.
Great day out and one of the best races ive run. 2min9sec off the winner as suppposed to 5min4sec 12months previously, and from 5th scorer to 3rd scorer in a stronger team.

C • Congrats 2

warm down indoors

under orders to just do a very easy 15minute loosen out today ahead of the xc varsities tomorrow

loosener

think tonight will be a light enough session with the IVs over the weekend

really easy workout tonight

home for the spurs match

decided to just go for a spin today and leave the legs recover a bit more ahead of the varsity xc over the weekend which i want to be fresh for

just to spin and loosen out the legs after yesterday, really windy againg especially going towards passage

workout with my housemate, did around 20 minutes core and some weights stuff