Bedford and County AC

Following England Athletics’ recent statement about the return of athletics, which you can find here, the committee have been actively planning the club’s reopening. We are excited and optimistic about the prospects for the 2021 summer season, and would like to offer members the following update:

We believe there will be considerable opportunity for competition this summer, including open meetings, leagues, championships, road races, and Park Runs. We think that competitions will operate with some restrictions in place at first, but expect these to ease, and then lift as the year progresses.
Public Space Covid Secure Training (off track training) will return from Tuesday 30th March – the public space booking system will reopen from 23rd March.
The club are working with Fusion to reopen the stadium for training as soon as possible. Many Fusion staff are furloughed, and they are currently working out their own plan for a return.
Our reasonable best case scenario is that we may be able to return to training at the stadium on 30th March, initially administering access to the stadium ourselves, with Fusion staff returning at some point during April. However, whilst we are reasonably optimistic, we do not control the timeframe.

Howard Darbon provides an update about the club's growing Wheelchair Racing Section:
It has been difficult for members of the Wheelchair Racing section to train in recent weeks because of the cold weather and the absence of proper training rollers. However, all that has changed recently with the good news that we have qualified to receive over £2500 from a Sport England grant which will enable us to purchase 3 sets of purpose built training rollers which will enable all members to train at home.