Day 37 - 5km time trial

How is it day 37 already?! I thought the days were blending into one another before, but they really are now! Thankfully, I’m over the slump that I hit in the middle of last week. I had really started feeling overwhelmed by the length of this lockdown and by feelings of loneliness and missing my family and friends. What most people are saying is that these feelings come in waves, and thankfully I’m out the other side now, enjoying myself and getting creative again now! What helps is to think outside of yourself by remembering that no matter how awful it makes you feel, what you are doing to stay at home is saving lots of lives.

Myself and Fiona started the day with a 5km time trial. We’re both still following Emmett Dunleavey’s training plan, and a time trial to gauge where we’re at was on the cards for today. It was drizzling when I went out, and I couldn’t have been more delighted, as this usually means there are less walkers to have to dodge. It’s funny how, in one way, I love waking up to bad weather these days! I did my 5km in 26:13. I’m happy with this, as my training has been quite interrupted in recent weeks. It’s a good benchmark to improve on.

I didn’t get up to too much for the rest of the day. I did some more work on mixing our lockdown quartet piece together. I donated to the Mater Hospital’s “Miles that Mater” campaign, and I nominated five more friends on social media to also “run 5 and donate 5.”

In the evening, me and Peter sat down properly at the dinner table (for the first time in a while) and ate our Indian takeaway that we were too tired to eat last night! I had even made homemade tzatziki to have with my dinner. After dinner, the film “Song for a Raggy Boy” was on TV, so we watched that. I don’t think I’ve watched a film on RTÉ in a while and it felt nice watching a film picked by someone else! It wasn’t the most uplifting thing to watch, especially in the context of all the negative news around us, but it’s a good film and we enjoyed watching it. I went to bed straight after the film as I was wrecked after the morning time trial!Baca lagi