It’s great when a Chelsea boy makes a basic error…..
Matt Leaver, one of our admin sales support guys and arguably one of the fittest lads in the office, Martial Arts (so I won’t go too far with this..), running, gym and a bit of football sent this e-mail to Big Al. And, Big Al thought it best if I received the e-mail to add onto the website. The e-mail is below and so is the weblink for his footie team.
From: Matt Leaver http://www.ashtonprime.uwclub.net/reports/2006/match2/Match2.html
Couple of assists even in defeat…class act!
Matthew Leaver
Obviously, if he supported West London’s finest football team (the hooped one) then I might not have been so harsh! Sorry Matt.
Johnny
Paul Hancock
Paul has joined as a paraplanner from Origen IFA in Farnborough where he was an annuity consultant. Prior to that, Paul worked for ‘the Pru’ working on the buy-out of bulk annuities, taking on liability of final salary wind up's and techie stuff.
Paul lives in Reading and his interests are playing golf & badminton, travelling and seeing concerts.
The role of a paraplanner is to do the behind the scenes work for us advisers. Paul and Big Al are forming a good relationship in helping with research and techie stuff to support us in providing excellent reports for our clients.
He has fitted in well and we wish him the best in developing his career with us.
David Taylor – our new Owl
David joins from a mid sized IFA in Northampton where he led the Corporate Sales operation. Prior to that he was with Marsh for 9 years, the last two of which he was the Practice Leader for the Employee Benefits operation in the European Head Office in London. He has joined Morgans to develop the corporate benefits offering into a market leading operation, and is excited about the prospect of developing a number of unique offerings for corporate clients.
David lives in a village just outside Northampton, and is clinging to memories of a sporting past by playing village cricket in the summer and rugby in the winter. As he’s said at the start of the last 3 seasons…..this will be my last!
Owl? Well he’s from Sheffield and he isn’t a blade.
David is clearly an expert in his field and we are going to learn a lot from him. Welcome on board David.
Johnny
The Guvnor aka ‘Ironman Brodie’
Swim – 2.4 miles
Bike – 112 miles
Run – 26.2 miles
12 hours 49 minutes and 38 seconds
What a way to spend your Sunday!
In scorching temperatures on August 20th in Sherborne Dorset, 1,500 competitors entered the extreme sport of UK Ironman Triathalon. The eventual winner was New Zealander Bryan Rhodes with a time of 8 hours and 42 minutes.
Alex came out of the water in 108th position, dropped back after the bike ride into 860th, was raked 533rd for the run and finished a very respectful 592nd. He was actually 47th in his age category!
Put this into perspective, after an hour of swimming, he then cycles the equivalent of London to Birmingham and then finishes it off with a marathon. Doing anyone of those is pretty tough, but all three in succession is something else.
And, Jack & Tom also showed that they too have that Brodie competitive edge. The day was a family day and the youngsters were encouraged to compete in their own event.
Tom did an 800 meter run, followed by 1k on the bike then another 400 meters and out of 54 competitors he finished 8th!! He was only a minute and a half behind the winner (who was a bit of a pro). Tom’s time was 10 minutes and 17 seconds.
Jack started with a 400 meter run, then 1k on the bike followed by another 400 meter run. There were 22 competitors in his event and he finished in a respectable 8th place. Jack’s time was 5 minutes and 44 seconds, 1 minute 22 seconds behind the winner.
Tom & Jack’s times were pretty impressive and they ran the last bit in with their Dad too, see the picture.
Alex has already indicated that he fancies having a go at another one, this time sub 12 hours he says, new bike, stack of training and maybe somewhere exotic? Maybe he’ll need a cycle coach to go with him??
