Hope everyone got to enjoy some time with the family this past week! If you’re no in our #athletes-covid slack channel where I pump out ongoing updates, here’s the breakdown of where things are at and how we’ll be moving forward…
COVID UPDATES
Even with our petition that has over 40,000 signatures, the government hasn’t budged (https://www.change.org/p/allow-small-independent-gyms-in-bc-to-open). We’ve had conversations with Bonnie and Dix, requested the numbers to backup the closure of gyms - and though they keep claiming they exist, we haven’t got much out of them.
I was very hopeful that by this point some progress would be made - though I think the government has done a surprisingly good job over the past 2 years of helping keep us afloat, the fact that gyms were forced to completely shut down as opposed to going back to one of the many prior stages still baffles me. I believed by this point we would have gotten some options to return to private training, individual boxes, masks on, no cardio or something… but it doesn’t look like it’s going to happen :(
We are still actively exploring options for how we can safely get our members back inside the gym, but while we continue to fight that good fight, we will begin moving forward with our equipment lending…
EQUIPMENT LENDING
At this point I am assuming this mandate will actually end on Jan 18th (….) so we will NOT be bringing in our prior custom membership options etc. If the mandate is extended, then we will explore those options.
Until that time, equipment lending will only be made available to current monthly members and memberships (or punch card athletes who transfer to a monthly membership).
Private training & programming athletes please contact your coach for your options.
WHAT EQUIPMENT?
Monthly group class members will be eligible for a single dumbbell or kettlebell in order to follow along with our [RAAH] At Home workouts (custom cycle beginning January).
The exact time will be posted to the news blog here & you will be notified via slack. Equipment inventory will automatically update as requests are made - so we recommend you get into slack OR sit and click refresh on the news blog on Dec 29th :P
PICKUP EQUIPMENT
Your requests will be confirmed within 12 hours - but once a request is made you may go and reserve a pickup time via Zenplanner [COVID] Pickup. More times will be added as we confirm coach availability etc. Please note, pickup blocks may be deleted if nobody has reserved within 2 hours.
We’ll fire out another update once the back end is updated and ready - but in the meantime please email info@raincityathletics.ca if you have any questions!
Sorry this email didn’t come with better news :( again, for daily updates on progress & details join us in slack #athletes-covid
Don’t forget to check SugarWOD this week for all kinds of exercise options & programs :)
