Good morning,

As you likely have heard, at 6pm yesterday evening, Jason Kenney announced additional public health measures that apply to Edmonton, and impact ERTC.

While the prohibiting of all outdoor sports and recreation outside of your household doesn’t take effect until Sunday night, in the spirit of doing our part to “Stop the Spike” now, until further notice all ERTC rides are cancelled. This included the Rider Development session tonight - and we thank everyone who showed-up for their patience and understanding. 

Few things to note:

Rider Development Sessions: We will email out some practice drills you can do on your own at home. If you have any questions as you work on these, see the next point. We will have coaches available in the Rider Development Slack Channel who will be happy to answer any questions you might have over the next few weeks.

ERTC communications moving to Slack. Finding a communication medium that works for the most amount of members possible has been challenging. This season, we are going to trial Slack - a communication app that works on IOS, Android, and desktop, and doesn’t require a social media account.

You will receive an invite by email, using the email you used when signing up for ERTC. You will be asked to download the Slack app and create a free account (or use your existing Slack account). 

Within the ERTC Slack ”workspace”, there are different ‘channels’ that allow for communication on specific topics. You will be automatically added to all channels listed below except those noted as ‘private’’. Private channels will have controlled entry - if you’d like to join please direct message or email Albert or any other members of the exec team. 

ERTC Slack Channels:

  • General Club chat: Any general questions you’d like to put out to all club members

  • Announcements: Information the Executive share formally to the whole club

  • Classifieds: Available for anyone to post any bike related items for sale

  • Thursday Hills: Chat specific to Thursday Hills, to be used as a way to communicate weather information, or any other information pertinent to the hills ride

  • Rider Development Course (private): Chat for all those taking the 2021 sessions. Attendees will be automatically added.

  • Women of ERTC Chat (private): For all those who noted ‘female’ on their registration. If you didn’t, and you identify as anything other than male, let me know and you’ll be added. This will replace the Facebook WoERTC chat.

  • High Performance/Racing (private): For members training at a high-level and targeting or actively racing.

  • Other channels will be added as we’re able to consistently offer other regular rides

Slack does not replace Strava. Once rides start again, to attend you will still be required to RSVP via Strava. Slack allows those who don’t have Facebook to be a part of member communications and not miss-out on more real-time communications.

While not the start to the riding season we were hoping for, we hope that everyone is able to stay safe, and sane, over the next few weeks - and we’ll see you all in June!