• The main downfall of Coaches / Captains in the Health Marathon is that because the laps run back to back and it’s so good at retaining the players who are part of it, they don’t put structured effort and focus into promoting the next lap and attracting new players. • Even if you have a full team you should always be ‘advertising’ for new players. Having too many players is a great problem to have and easily dealt with. • You can’t wait until the end of the lap to start promoting the next lap! If you do this, it only gives you 3 days (over a weekend) for talking about, showing results, having conversations and inviting to the lap. • You should start the promotion and conversations of the next lap at least 7 days before it starts. So you are actually promoting the next lap whilst the current lap is still running. • This really makes the difference between the great problem of having too many players for a team and the much worse problem of always being a player short at the last minute.