Day 61 - Normal People

On our running plan today was a tempo run, followed by eight thirty second sprints, followed by another tempo run. Me and Fiona did it “together” by phone and I headed up to the road beside the “Beautiful Lee Valley” sign for the hills. The views up here are just spectacular and are such a pick-me-up! I also love how few cars there still are on the roads - it means that I can run on this road with no footpath, without too much worry. I’m already feeling a bit sad that some restrictions will start to relax on Monday, because the place will start feeling busy again. There’s a lot to be said for this quieter pace of life, and I’ve really settled into it now as a new normal! I hope we don’t all rush headlong back into the way things were before, without thinking about whether we actually want everything to be exactly as it was before!

We had our weekly Crusaders quiz this evening - Mike and Susan were the hosts. They had a really fun section, based on the Generation Game television show, where they showed us twenty items and we had to remember as many of them as we could later on. I got fifteen, but Mum and Anna remembered nineteen! Mum told the group about my “imaginary friend” story that I told on Newstalk yesterday - I don’t think I’ll live this one down for a while. Haha!

After the quiz, me and Peter watched the latest two episodes of “Normal People.” It seems like most of the country are glued to this television show at the moment, not least because the amount of nudity in it has caused huge outrage on Joe Duffy’s radio show! The fallout from the show every week is nearly better than the show itself. As Peter said, “who would have thought we’d end up glued to Joe Duffy during this lockdown!” After the show, Joe Duffy tweeted: “I want to phone in sick tomorrow - who do I call?” Brilliant!Read more