EURO COMP TOUR

A-Mac and JP: "stride wars" in a park beside Lac du Bourget yesterday

A quick update from Aix-Les-Bains, France: Coach Greg Kealey and I have the great pleasure of working with a small group of athletes over three weeks of competition here in Europe. Jeff Phillips, Andrew McCartney and Andrew Yorke are here now, and we're looking forward to Alison Hooper joining us on Saturday. We started in Hungary with the ITU Tiszaujvaros World Cup where the boys raced hard and learned a lot. We're now in Aix-Les-Bains, France, recovering and preparing for the next events, and enjoying seeing the Aussie Team at the pool every morning. This coming weekend we'll be racing the ETU Geneva Continental Cup, and the following weekend we'll have back-to-back days of racing in Lausanne: ITU Elite Sprint World Championships on Saturday, and ITU Team Relay World Championships on Sunday.

A big thanks to coach James Loaring for leading the RTC squad in my absence, as they prep for Nationals.

The photo album of our 2010 European Competition Tour is here, and we'll update with pictures throughout the trip.

Don't forget to check out the ITU's coverage of the Kitzbuhel WCS this weekend. Paula Findlay will be back in action, after her big win in London. We'll be huddled around the laptops cheering.