ATHLETICS: Tobin overcomes effects of virus to ease to victory

Despite having to miss a number of recent races due to illness, Sean Tobin showed he is getting back into top form with an easy victory at the Aviva/Munster Schools Cross-Country at the WIT complex on the outskirts of Waterford city yesterday.

Retaining the title he won last year at CIT, the High School, Clonmel, athlete admitted he still wasn’t recovered from the tonsillitis which forced him to miss the European Junior Cross-Country back in December.

“It was a really tough course today and I haven’t been able to train this past week as the virus came back to me again,” he explained.