Foundations
Early 2020 saw bushfires rage up and down the east coast of Australia creating apocalyptic scenes unlike anything most people had seen in a lifetime. Then, just when it looked like things couldn't get any worse, COVID reared its ugly head and threw us into the first of many lockdowns.
That first Canberra lockdown was mild – we could go out climbing every day, we just couldn't go to work – so it gave me plenty of time to mull over where I was at and what my next steps could look like. I had worked in and out of gyms for decades and always had