Hi Everyone

I'm writing to you on my Lenovo notebook from my hotel room in Barcelona.

That's right, I'm in Europe at the moment in the middle of a three and a half week training and competition tour.

The trip started in Rome with a week of tough training. I didn't feel 100% for the first few days, but slowly adjusted and ended up doing some good work in the pool.

We also had a meet in Rome. The meet was a good test for me as a number of the top competitors that I will be racing at the Olympics were there. They are Frenchman Alain Bernard, Italian Filippo Magnini and Sweden's Stefan Nystrand.

The 100m freestyle was a hard fought race and I finished in a dead heat for second with Bernard in a time of 48.41 with Magnini winning in a time of 48.35. I did manage to get the better of them in the 50m freestyle though winning in a time of 21.85 which I was pretty happy with.

From Rome we came across here to Barcelona for another meet. I managed to win both the 50m and 100m freestyle here which was good, although I wasn't very happy with my swim in the 50m. My time was 22.12 and I was really looking to go a bit faster that I did in Rome.

Tomorrow we head across to Canet for the final meet of the tour. Hopefully I can produce some fast times there to finish off the tour before heading home.

I'll let you know how I go when I check in again next month.

Cheers

Eamon

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