CHRC Guidelines for Events & Group Runs During COVID-19
CHRC Events & Group Runs during COVID-19
- CHRC remains committed to ensuring a safe running experience for our members, as well as for the Brooklyn community as a whole. We are thrilled to be able to run together again and will abide by all applicable COVID-19 guidance issued by the city or state governments in order to safely continue doing so.
- CHRC will continue group runs as long as New York City’s test positivity rate over a seven-day rolling average is below 10% of total tests and the city issues no restrictions on outdoor activities or small gatherings.
- If the positivity rate rises about 10% of total test and/or the city or state governments issued restrictions on outdoor activities, the COVID-19 Special Project Group will convene to make a recommendation to the Board regarding changes to or cancelling group runs.
- Indoor social events will be permitted when New York City’s test positivity rate over a seven-day rolling average is below 0.5% and the NY State guidelines allow for indoor gatherings for large groups of mixed vaccination status.
- Club-sponsored outdoor non-running events will be permitted following NY State Guidelines which currently allow for up to 200 people to gather outdoors. Non-running events will be restricted to fully vaccinated people only.
- For outdoor events involving food, bring food and refreshments for yourself or to share, based on your comfort level.
- Co-sponsored events and group runs with other running clubs are permitted when New York City’s test positivity rate over a seven-day rolling average is below 1%. Co-sponsored runs with other clubs will continue as of this update, while social events will be suspended until rates drop back below 1%.
- Participants in CHRC group runs and events are be required to complete the CHRC Contact Tracing form prior to each event and/or run they attend.
- Members are asked to refrain from attending group runs or other CHRC events if they feel unwell or are following NY State guidelines for isolating, i.e. returning from a high-risk location or have a known exposure, including if they are fully vaccinated.
- Members are permitted to self-organize non-club sponsored gatherings on CHRC platforms (Facebook, Slack). They must specify that their gathering is a non-club event when doing so.
Safety during runs
- All participants in CHRC runs are asked to commit to the following guidelines in order to run safely together during COVID-19:
- Wearing a mask while running is optional only for fully vaccinated people, including before and after runs. If you are not fully vaccinated, you routinely spend time with a high-risk loved one, and/or if you’ve recently returned from a high risk location, please wear a mask through the run.
- Maintain social distancing before, during, and after the run. This includes during photos.
- Refrain from spitting, snot-rocketing, giving high-fives, or sharing water bottles.
- Agree to contact the CHRC COVID-19 Special Project Group per the instructions (in section 3, below).
- During COVID-19, Run Leaders have the following responsibilities in addition to those laid out in the Run Leader guidelines:
- Ensure all runners are practicing social distancing.
- Show respect for our community by facilitating splitting a large group of runners into several smaller groups.
- Run Leaders have the authority and responsibility to ask any runner who refuses to follow COVID-19 precautions to leave the run.
- Share a friendly reminder of these guidelines at the start of each run.
- Self-organized/pop-up runs
- Members are permitted to self-organize group runs outside of the CHRC schedule on CHRC’s platforms (Slack, Facebook), with the understanding that they will follow all of the safety guidelines, including limiting non-running events to fully vaccinated people only.
- If you have self-organized on a CHRC platform (Facebook or Slack) ensure participants have completed the CHRC Contact Tracing form.