Training outdoors is proving a challenge (6th Dec)

With the hall, gym and dressing rooms still out of bounds, the very cold snap we had in the first week of December reminded us of the loss of our indoor facilities, as we have nowhere to take refuge from the worst of the wet and cold. Some time ago we put up a small shelter near the outside gravel track, primarily for coaches to keep out of the elements, but it was also somewhere to put gear out of the rain, though it was proving really too small for the gear. That problem was solved on Thursday 3rd December when we took delivery of a large steel cabin where members can put their gear and water bottles during training. It’s just for storing gear and water bottles though and is not a shelter or a changing room. It has steel mesh doors, so is very well ventilated and dropping and collecting gear can be done on a one-way system – in one door and out another – making it ideal for the purpose. When we finally get to the far side of the Covid-19 pandemic, it can be used to take shelter at training, but not until then.