There's no 'I' in Team

Well what an amazing week I had last week.

I had the honour of meeting the Queen as she officially opened the leisure centre that I operate.

Now those that know me would not be surprised that I would try and shoehorn this is to a blog about me training for an Ironman however humour me as there is reason other than me wanting to show off the fact that I met the Queen!

You the Royal visit didn't just happen, it wasn't a case of getting a phone call from the palace to say that the Queen fancied a day out and will be popping along.

This was a meticulously planned visit and had been in carefully put together for months.

But it wasn't just the planning stage that was impressive it was the support team that was in place to ensure that every last detail, including food and drink, and eventuality was looked into but also to ensure that everyone on the day enjoyed themselves.

You see so here's the thing it made it clear to me that in order for me to do this massive challenge I'm going to need a team around me to ensure that every last detail is looked in to and planned to get me to the finish line.

Now clearly I'm not going to have the number of people that the Royal party had but it is important for me to build a team I can trust as I'm not going to be able to do this without help and careful planning.

The first part of my support team is obviously my family, mainly my wife and kids, they have been there for me through all the previous challenges and have a lot of patients particularly when I'm not around because I'm training, but the support of them however vital and improtant it is to me I'm going to need a few more people as part of the team.

So where do I start looking for a team, well fortunately I work in the leisure industry so I have a few specialists in different fields available but it's about selecting the right people.

I've also looked at the areas where I feel I need the most support at this time so I have focused on a swimming coach, nutritional and strength coach and sports therapist.

Now it's still early days but I have started piecing Team Average together and hopefully in the coming weeks I will be able to introduce you to the team.

As for now I'm going to continue smiling over the events of last week as well as training for the Race the Train event I have in 4 weeks time.