Greetings Team River Runner Boise Members!
I hope you are all doing well, staying safe and healthy. Its the time of year we do our planning for events, equipment purchases, and fundraising, and normally we would be setting dates for pool sessions beginning sometime in December.
With Covid surging in the state, we are making the unfortunate decision to hold off any in person meetings or pool sessions for now. I hope we can get comfortable with pool sessions early next year, and will keep you posted.
For our planning we will do it through at least initially by email and where appropriate with phone calls, and consider something like zoom calls if it becomes clear that would be beneficial.
I will lead with a starting point draft calendar for events under two scenarios-one if we get clear of serious Covid restrictions by May, and the other if we do not. We will migrate from one to the other as appropriate based on the virus status. The initial draft one I imagine we all hope for, without Covid restrictions, will duplicate what we had planned for last year, including the multi day events.
The second draft one will not include the multi day events, and will pick a day within the timeframe of the multi day events for local single day events. That way we can hopefully have a calendar you can use better for personal planning than the more adhoc approach we ended up using this year.
We will also be including a flatwater program led by Dayne, and a women’s event program led by Christina. Kevin and I will take a look at our inventory (And Dayne for flatwater) and lead with a draft for you to review of our priority for purchases as money becomes available.For fundraising I will also send around what we had decided to do this year as a starting point draft, and again we can take input to finalize the plan. Beyond these local things, National TRR will be having some virtual events and activities including virtual kayaking skills training and workouts. We will keep you posted about those opportunities.
I would also encourage all of you to keep up with both our local Boise website https://www.teamriverrunnerboise.org/ and the National website (you can link to it from the local site or go directly to https://teamriverrunner.org.
As always, let me know if there is anything you would like to discuss with me, either about TRR or anything else in your life.Best regards and hope to see you soon.
Bob T