Sebastien Locteau

I did Kildysart 4miles, Headford 8km, Swinford 4.5 miles, Westport 13 miles and the Streets in 14 days, to see if my body could take it and especially my back. I do not recommend to anybody to do what I did especially if you are injured like me awaiting surgery. However, we all know that sport is a drug and that my mind is trained better than my body. After the Westport and Streets of Galway dual race, I did not run or cycle for a week my back and hamstring were stiff so only did 3 swim of an hour. My preparation was very poor I trained only for 12 weeks in which I went 5 days to the European champs in France, then 5 days in Croatia for the Euro U23, then came back for 4 days to the National swimming age group Champs and then went to Lisburn to the National Open Swimming Champs so a total of 20 days out of training (did one run of 35min in Lisburn). I calculated a total of 103 hours in 12 weeks for this Ironman which is incredibly low and included 1 /2 2 hours run a w...

Athens Olympics 2004 I am just Back from Athens where I coached, the Congo National Team for the Athletics from 100m to 1500m track. As you know I had to decide to concentrate on the Olympics the last 6 months. My First Olympic Games as an Official coach, maybe the youngest this year. I felt really small when I met the best coaches in the world and no doubt I still have to learn a lot from them. But as some told me: "If they qualified, they deserve to be there as you worked to be there too". I won't write all the results, but it was amazing, to be there. The dream I had of the Olympics since I was 12 was different from the reality, events are far away from each other in the country, I suppose to promote and bring money to small town in the country, Athletes look impressive but very human, I mean by this not exceptional when you talk to them, they are only people at the end of the day with their fear of doing well.  The transport system was really well organized, s...