Park streetO WORD S & P H OTO S DE BB I E D O DD
The 2019 Park Street report was written as Covid was really making its presence felt, with the end of the Summer Series cut short, and no idea what the 2020 year would hold in store. While Victoria, and particularly Melbourne, experienced one of the world’s harshest lockdowns and our Winter Series consisted of only a few weeks, we came out the other side of it in good shape, and able to hold most of our Summer Series events, albeit with a slightly different approach.
Winter Series (April-September 2020)
The first lockdown saw the series put on hold until late May; we resumed with six weeks of free “training” events (as permitted under Victorian government directives). These gave us an opportunity to become familiar with online signup, staggered start times, virtual controls and MapRun. Demand exceeded available places, and we offered extra daytime sessions on Tuesday mornings.
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