Senior Harriers exit from lockdown for Phase 3

Hello Members

Following further updates from the Scottish Government's COVID-19 route map we are allowed to resume sport in line with sports specific guidance from Sportscotland and Scottish Athletics and public health advice.

"Organised outdoor non-contact sporting activity can be undertaken by all ages with no physical distancing required on the field of play." The field of play for us is warm up, main session and cool down.

So the key here is for Mondays & Thursdays club sessions to return it is classed as "Organised outdoor non-contact sporting activity".

The committee had a meeting last week to discuss how we can restart club training with COVID-19 restrictions and work is under way to do this.

So to prepare everyone mentally it won't be like what we did before, there will be new rules in place that we as club need to do and rules laid down by the Sports Club who are our Facility provider that we need to follow.

Changes to be aware of include 

1. An online booking system to attend Mondays & Thursdays club sessions using Google forms on the blog (similar to how we book to club races).  We need to keep a register of training attendance for track and trace purposes. 

2. Members split into their training packs (Scottish Athletics refer to them as bubbles) before you turn up for training to prevent people mixing outside their training pack (bubble). 

3. Entering Sports club to join your training pack only and social distancing (2 metres) with everyone else

4. Toilets will be accessible 

5. No changing room or showering facilities 

6. We have agreed the Tuesday night training will not return immediately until we have successful re-started Mondays & Thursdays as this night of training has its own attendance complexities.

7. Work is in progress to get the Wednesday junior training back in September but no date set.

8. No access to Sports Club gym.

The committee have not set a date to re-start training but I hope it will be in September. The committee have agreed to have a test training night with a small number of members to see how our new systems work.

The committee and I will keep everyone updated on our progress. However I would like to say I hope we can have all members cooperation and goodwill to follow any new rules to help the return of club training and respect the work the it is involved in our preparations.

Kind regards

Richard

Relevant Links

Phase 3 - https://www.scottishathletics.org.uk/clubs/club-support/coronavirus/

Please pay attention to documents "General guidance for Athletes" but please feel free to look at any others General Guidance documents.