{"id":48626,"date":"2021-01-12T16:19:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T08:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.runnerstribe.com\/?p=48626"},"modified":"2021-01-12T16:20:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T08:20:53","slug":"an-interesting-few-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runnerstribe.com\/features\/an-interesting-few-months\/","title":{"rendered":"An Interesting Few Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Ryan Gregson<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Post the 2020 European athletics season, the MTC athletes who were in Europe competing needed to get home after what was overall a successful campaign. This wasn\u2019t as easy as it seemed though. We were trying to come home in October, however when we were looking at flights in September, news reports mentioned that there were 25,000 other Australians who were also trying to come home. 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