Sebastien Locteau

Sheffield, England When I came back from Belgium, I went straight to the Irish National Age groups and flew straight away to the British swimming Youth and Age groups championships. As it was in Belgium at the European Juniors swim champs, I had a very small break between sessions and decided to write another small piece during my traveling as I received quite a large and positive feedback from my last article. To introduce Sheffield, it is an old industrial City, Associated with steel since the 1740’s it kept its renown for steel production and coal mine for longer than most industrial cities expanding over two centuries. After a tough 70’s and 80’s the City was revived in the 90’s after a revamp of the cities, roads, infrastructure and house schemes. A compact town, old with new buildings, marina, train, tram.... The town very compact and my runs through it was quite difficult but after a few days of trying different path it got really interesting and

Sebastien Locteau in Antwerp, Belgium From the 1st to the 8th of July I went with the Irish Junior team and two other coaches to Antwerpen in Belgium to the European Junior Swimming Championship. The results were amazing for Ireland , you can read them on the Swim Ireland website. I took this opportunity to do a few runs through the city, and really enjoyed it. So here we go, an Athenry AC runner in Belgium ! Coaching in a swimming pool is about 32 degree in a hot atmosphere from 6.30am to 7pm in the evening can be quite exausting. Lucky enough I had a few hours of a break between the morning sessions and the semi or Finals in the evening. 2012 Irish Junior swim team,  picture Swim Ireland We stayed in a hotel just opposite to the Antwerp Olympic pool, in which Graine Murphy's coach Ronald Claes who is now in Limerick, was coaching . High performance Director Peter Banks, Kilkenny Head coach John Duffy (Shanni Stallard coach) and Dublin High Performance