The winter months arrived with a new set of challenges in an already trying year. The death of George Floyd in America rippled throughout the world sparking a reckoning with racial injustice. By this point, we had largely been conditioned to avoid crowds, where they hadn't been already forbidden, and maintain a healthy distance. However, the Black Lives Matter movement was too strong a cause with hundreds in Canberra, and many more in cities worldwide, assembling to make a defiant, albeit socially-distant, statement.
Elsewhere, folks tried to find a sense of equilibrium amid the turbulent times training in the hope events could make a comeback. Nationally, COVID cases had simmered to a low, but figures in Victoria were beginning to climb upwards.
