As a committee, we just want to reassure you that our club’s committee and coaches are working hard to plan a safe way back to training and competition for all our athletes after receiving the welcome news from the Welsh Government earlier today.
The committee will be meeting in the next few days and guidance will be issued as soon as practicably possible.
At present, we are liaising with Freedom Leisure (operators of our track) and utilising guidance from Welsh Athletics to devise a way of operating which will be as safe as possible for our athletes and coaches, and essentially all of our wider families and communities.
The health and safety of our athletes and coaches is our main priority and as such we will have to consider some of the following; operational risk assessments, the health of vulnerable/high risk athletes and coaches, group sizes and venue/availability for evenings and weekends.
Given the large number of variables which are affecting coached group activity we are unable at this stage to name a date for when we expect training could resume.
However, what we do know is that we cannot have groups of more than 30 athletes, which will mean for the Junior athletes that we will have to have pre-selected groups. We apologise in advance as it is inevitable that there will be disappointment amongst some of our junior athletes who may not be selected in the early stages of return.
Please rest assured that our long-term aim is to have a club where everyone can return to training however in order to protect health and wellbeing, an open access club will just not be possible at present.
As a club, we have never had a situation like this before and it is a learning curve for us all. Please bear with us while we try and roll out any training and please do not hesitate to contact us via our social media pages if you have any further enquiries.
We would like to thank you all for your patience and understanding and look forward to the day when we can see you all back training.
More information from Welsh Athletics can be found on their website here.
Kind Regards
Committee and Coaches of Maldwyn Harriers