With optical athletes from seven European countires plus South Africa the Oakley Transitions Ironman team is really starting to look like a unit. Over the last two days the participants have received coaching...........
Part of Optician's international weekend has been the launch of the Oakley Transitions Ironman project here in Monaco. Optician from all over Europe have come together to make up the team. Their arrival in town coincided with that of the circus The team look pretty fit so if any of the circus strongmen go sick replacements are on hand.
Anyone reading the blog over the next few days will be treated to a distinctly international feel. As well as a good number of the Optician team being in Munich for the Optical Fair this weekend also sees the start of the Oakley Transitions Ironman Team project in Monaco.
Optician is the UK media partner for this event which takes place in Monaco this September and as part of that support Optician will be following the participants.
This gruelling challenges requires the participants to swim 1.9km, cycle up a mountain 90km and then run a halkf marathon.
The UK team member is Fiona Molloy ( the only woman on the team) and Optician will be following her progress both in the journal and online. Another element of the coverage will be a Oakley Transitions Ironman Team blog into which the particiapnts can put their progress thoughts and fears.
It's been a busy time for everyone on Optician recently and this culminated with our redesign last Friday (19th see previous post).
I was looking forward to a nice relaxing non-optical weekend but it was not to be.
As it happened a series of bizarre incidents took place which make for a wierd and whacky optical break.
The first incident centered around Henry.
It was a red letter day in the Optician office today. After weeks of hard work the redesign issue hit the streets. To mark the occasion Optician took over the lobby of the publishing business of which we are part.
To celebrate the launch we offered our fellow workers the opportunity to win £1,000 worth of Sunglass Hut vouchers. Most of the magazines in the building have titles like Chemical News and Computer weekly so our sunglass round up went down well. Optician took over the whole of the lobby to celebrate the launch.
Of course the editor, that's me, had to make the ultimate sacrifice and wear an Optician-logoed shirt while handing out the launch issue.
With that job completed in fine magazine style it was off down the pub.
No sooner was my first post, well posted, than a question appeared. Not the usual, "how many CET points have I got", type of question.
The enquirer wanted to know who supplied the sunglasses for the lastest Bollywood movie smash, Don. A picture is posted below. Any answers.
Apposite hardly starts to describe the timing of the start of this Blog.
I make that point because after many months of sweat and a few tears, Optician has a new design. This spanking new-looking issue is written, laid out and poised to hit the streets this Friday. Trust me it looks great!
But back to the blog. As part of a world class publishing company I have been badgered for some time to start a blog. It's not that I wasn't keen to write a web log, more a question of whether anyone would be interested in reading it and what exactly its content should be.
