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Another week and another set of guidelines we are adapting to! It was great news yesterday to hear the announcement by the Victorian Government that our restrictions in Metro Melbourne will start to ease from midnight tonight. Although not a full bounce back, I feel like we’ll take what we can at the moment. There’s definitely some lockdown fatigue going on and this weather is not helping, but we will continue to look for the positives amongst the clouds.

There’s lots more details to follow about what the easing of restrictions means for us and what training options are available this week. We’ve also decided to go ahead with the training spike of our Winter Camp and are taking it online for those who signed up. All athletes can join us for the hilly Saturday morning ride. Please remember there are two options with this; a Zwift session (you must be following Greg to receive your invite) or a Zoom session with Gaz, who will replicate the strength intensity on the wt.

We hope to be back to even more routine and structure following next week’s announcement!

In other news, Ironman Cairns was able to go ahead as planned over the weekend and we were stoked to be able to the have Jimmy and Dan up their racing. We know they had plenty of support back home, with most of us glued to the stream to follow their every steps. Congratulations to Jimmy on Ironman #10 (WOW!!!) and to Dan for becoming an Ironman. We hope you are both recovering well and that we will get to see you very soon to hear all about it!

We’ve got two articles for your reading pleasure this week. Firstly, a deep dive into FTP testing with Coach Gaz. This follows on from the test you would have all completed this week and helps provide you with an understanding of why we do them. Well worth the read. And secondly, I asked Michelle Grocock to give us an insight into her most recent passion of trail running, which sees her traveling and racing in some incredible places. This is a good one!

And finally, we had to make the tough decision to cancel our End of Season Party (that almost didn’t happen) (but now is not going to happened) …new official title! With the slow steps out of lockdown, the density and public gathering limits there is a real restriction hanging over us. We are going to find a more opportune time to host this in the near future. For all those who have paid for a ticket, please get in touch with the office for your refund.

As I said last week, we will wait for further advice about what will happen next week before sending out our next newsletter. Of course, we will always be in touch when we know more. For now…keep well, keep training, keep connected.