My professional role is to identify talented people, then coach them and their teams to achieve their full potential.  Similarly, as a First Category Racing Cyclist in my 20’s, I actively coached and mentored junior talent, occasionally to World Class honours.

Good communication between the Committee and ALL members is in my opinion key to a successful club.  I also think we need a far more proactive approach to coordinating our athletic talents, in the same organised way we have achieved our impressive triathlon results.

A more visible and accessible committee, with a publicised timetable of meetings, prompt responses to members’ questions and  feedback  on  activities, decisions, projects and plans, would improve unity and a sense of collective responsibility.  We cannot operate such a diverse PRC with 200 members the same carefree way as we ran it with 2 dozen members and little or no diversity.