Here read this intro. Couch To 5k is how I got started, and Clare too, I very much recommend it. I will read and watch all of those related stories and videos, though I don't need the inspiration so much myself now. I haven't actually run for a few days though now, I feel like I trod on a pin or something and was hobbling a couple of days ago. Can't see anything and it is improved now, so maybe tomorrow.
I still did some epic walking on it yesterday, the 9k round route to Morrisons, though my watch battery gave out part way. This Garmin watch lasts for ages so I don't always remember to charge it. Also I seem not to have mentioned it here but I did an epic bike ride on Thursday too. We went out for our normal afternoon exercise, riding to Sandgate. Usually I walk and the boys ride, and then home, but this time I took my bike too. I had to go in the shop to look for skimmed milk for Clare, and as they had none in Sandgate, I rode back with the boys, left them at the end of our road to go in on their own, and rode on to Hythe. None their either, nor at the shop at the other end of Hythe, so I rode on to Dymchurch. It was lovely and it's all flat, so a great ride. "Glad it's not windy" I was thinking. Then turned round at Dymchurch and realised there was a breeze, just that it had been blowing me along all the way. So I had to do 15km back again into the wind, gah. Still I eventually found the milk. 30km trip all in 1.
I was wondering if we'd be able to get a cheap holiday this year, as Greece is opening up to tourists and most people will still not want to travel. But they're not opening up to the UK yet, we're not going to be able to go anywhere.
I have updated my reading list, as I started a new book The Interpretation of Murder 2. Hope it is good. It is not the big intimidating tome I am putting off starting, maybe next time.
| Author | Book | Thoughts |
|---|---|---|
| Ian Rankin | Westwind 3 | Dated thriller, shame. |
| Ian Rankin | Doors Open 3 | Really good crime caper in Edinburgh but with no Rebus. |
| Suzanne Collins | The Hunger Games 3 | Borrowed from the children, very good. |
| Suzanne Collins | Catching Fire 3 | Hunger Games part 2, read this even quicker, a bit darker. |
| Suzanne Collins | Mockingjay 3 | Hunger Games part 3, joyless and grim. |
| Karen McManus | One Of Us Is Lying 4 | Another one liberated from the children's bookshelf. A Breakfast Club whodunnit, dying to be a film, not at all suitable for a ten year old... |
| Robin Paige | Death at Glamis Castle 5 | Edwardian era mystery written by Americans. I read one of these before. Quite atmospheric, though a little twee. Sort of romance / crime. Written in accents, with plenty of "of the time" attitudes. |
| Jed Rubenfield | The Interpretation of Murder 2 | A charity shop find, one you always see, have had it kicking around a long time. Historical crime fiction again set in New York 1909, featuring Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. |
Another glorious day today out there. Clare has gone to the supermarket today, thugh under duress. She thinks I should have done it again but I don't want to deny her the experience of queueing for ages in the carpark and being equally annoyed by the people in their masks, and then all the people not wearing masks too.
| Country | cases | deaths |
|---|---|---|
| USA | 1793530 | 104542 |
| Brazil | 468338 | 27944 |
| Russia | 387623 | 4374 |
| Spain | 285644 | 27121 |
| UK | 271222 | 38161 |
| Italy | 232248 | 33229 |
| France | 186835 | 28714 |
| Germany | 183019 | 8594 |
| India | 173491 | 4980 |
| Turkey | 162120 | 4489 |
Glad to see Have I Got News For You and The Last Leg did not lay off Dominic Cummings and his ridiculous bullshit story last night.
Coronavirus weekly death graph for USA + UK + Italy + Spain + France + Brazil
5k: Five kilometres, just over three miles in old money.
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